European Association of Remote Sensing Companies

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

900,000€ - 999,999€

Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

3 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Association of Remote Sensing Companies   (EARSC)

    EU Transparency Register

    928649113568-51 First registered on 05 May 2014

    Goals / Remit

    The European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) is a non-profit-making organisation which is actively involved in coordinating and strengthening the Earth-observation (EO) chain and promoting the European geo-information industry.

    EARSC is open to corporative and observer members with deeply interest in providing services delivering information based on observations of the Earth and its environment.

    The members of EARSC are active on the growing market for the exploitation of EO data by converting these data in geo-information suitable and accessible for their clients. This conversion process, the customization of the products and the development and provision of services is characterized by addition of value for users/customers in the chain between data collection and exploitation of information. The development of EO technology from space and the continuous growth of a wide diversity of applications have created the basis of a new emerging service industry w (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    European Space policy and strategy. Copernicus programme, Copernicus services and their evolution. Climate and Environment and the use of EO data. Internationalisation and SME support.

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue de la Loi, 26
    Brussels 1040
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Rue de la Loi, 26
    Brussels 1040
    BELGIUM

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    3

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Mar 2024

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Michelle HERMES 22 Sep 2023 20 Sep 2024
    Ms Francesca PIATTO 01 Feb 2020 30 Jan 2021
    Ms Delphine Miramont 30 Jan 2020 30 Jan 2021
    Ms Marion Bouvet 27 Feb 2019 27 Feb 2020
    Mr John Robert VAN DEN BERG 27 Feb 2019 01 Sep 2019
    Mr Geoff Sawyer 20 Nov 2018 20 Nov 2019
    Mr Emmanuel PAJOT 20 Nov 2018 20 Nov 2019
    Ms Irene DODA 08 Nov 2018 08 Nov 2019
    Ms Anastasia ANTONIOU 03 Mar 2018 02 Mar 2019
    Ms Marion Bouvet 23 Feb 2018 23 Feb 2019
    Mr Geoff Sawyer 31 Aug 2017 31 Aug 2018
    Mr Emmanuel PAJOT 25 Apr 2017 07 Apr 2018
    Ms Anastasia ANTONIOU 01 Apr 2017 23 Dec 2017
    Ms Ariane DUBOST 10 Jan 2017 07 Jan 2018
    Mr Geoff Sawyer 13 Sep 2016 20 Aug 2017
    Ms Ariane DUBOST 22 Dec 2015 21 Dec 2016
    Mr Geoff Sawyer 06 Aug 2015 05 Aug 2016
    Ms Ariane DUBOST 20 Jan 2015 22 Dec 2015
    Mr Geoff Sawyer 07 Aug 2014 05 Aug 2015
    Ms Deborah Sciocco 08 Jul 2014 04 Jul 2015

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    EUROGI

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    900,000€ - 999,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant EU Horizon Europe 562,277€

    Major contributions in current year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant EU Horizon Europe 616,259€

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    900,000€ - 999,999€

    Other financial info

    the cost includes employees salaries, office cost of the whole secretariat, policy/lobbying represents only about 30%
    sources includes ESA and EC funded project of the whole secretariat, policy/lobbying represents only about 10%

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    Our position papers can be found here: https://earsc.org/publications/

    Other activities

    EARSC produced several papers summarising its members' positions on Earth observation issues, mainly in relation to Copernicus, the European Earth observation programme (e.g. on Free and Open Data Policy, on Copernicus governance, on Industry access to Sentinels' data).

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    3 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.

    • Date 11 Dec 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Exchange of views aboutthe EO geoinformation services
      DG Agriculture and Rural Development
      Attending
      • Jerzy Bogdan Plewa (Director-General)
    • Date 15 Nov 2017 Location BERL
      Subject Copernicus
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
      Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
      Attending
      • Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
    • Date 05 Mar 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Intro meeting
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
      Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
      Attending
      • Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
      • Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
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