Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Association of Chemical Distributors (Fecc)
EU Transparency Register
0346440357-87 First registered on 03 Sep 2008
Goals / Remit
Fecc is the voice of the Chemical Distribution Industry in Europe. With a growing membership of companies and national associations, Fecc represents around 1,600 companies, out of which around 850 are chemical distributors. Many of these companies are small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Chemical distribution industry in Europe employs around 30,000 people and has an annual sales leverage of approximately €28 billion.
Fecc promotes initiatives such as Responsible Care, Product Stewardship and Good Trade and Distribution Practices. Fecc and its working committees provide services and information on current and proposed legislation to the members while at the same time providing feedback to the European Institutions.Main EU files targeted
- REACH implementation
- Classification,Labeling and Packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP)
- Biocidal products
- Quality Requirements for the supply to the pharmaceutical, food, feed and cosmetics industry
- International trade of chemicals
- Market access third countries
- Explosives and Drug precursors
- Transport & security Issues
- The Seveso DirectiveAddress
Head Office
Rue du Luxembourg, 16b
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Cathy DEMEESTERE (Director General)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Dr. Neville Prior (President)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
Member of the International Chemical Trade Association http://icta-chem.org/
Affiliate member to Cefic http://www.cefic.org/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
Other financial info
The above amount is an estimate of the percentage of each employee devoted to direct representation based upon their annual salary. It does not include costs of travel.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Seveso expert group#E02612 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2612 #Observer #C#Competent Authorities for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of CHemicals (REACH) and Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP)#E02385 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2385 #Observer #C#Sub-group on CLP labelling & packaging issues#Sub-group on ATPs to CLP#Technical expert group for food contact materials#E03354 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3354 #Member #C#Competent Authorities for Biocidal Products (Regulation (EU) No 528/2012)#E03125 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3125 #Observer #C#Digital Transport and Logistics Forum#E03280 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3280 #Member #C#Standing Committee on Precursors#E03245 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3245 #Observer #C#Commission's expert group on implementation of the Rotterdam Convention on international trade in certain dangerous chemicals#E00483 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=483 #Observer #C#Expert Group on Land Transport Security#E02821 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2821 #Observer #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Responsible Care programme a voluntary initiative to improve health, safety, security and environmental performance of the chemical distribution sector.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 21 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject Reach evaluation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
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