European Compost Network ECN e.V.

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

37,500€

Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.5 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Compost Network ECN e.V.   (ECN)

    EU Transparency Register

    26513411360-51 First registered on 12 Mar 2009

    Goals / Remit

    European Compost Network ECN is a collaboration of partners promoting sustainable practices in composting, anaerobic digestion and other treatment procedures for organic waste across Europe. It serves with his approach "Quality Management in Biological Treatment of Biodegradable Waste" first of all for the need of the practical operation and the decision makers.

    Working fields
    * Data collection and European surveys
    * Contributions to developments in the EU
    * Concepts meeting EU legislation
    * High quality, cost effective source separation
    * Best practices in treatment procedures
    * Standards and quality monitoring
    * Compost/digestate application and marketing
    * Research and technology news
    * Environmental effects

    The ECN is a a not-for-profit organisation that pro-motes the scientific development of environmental biotechnology worldwide.

    Membership of the ECN encompasses more than 4500 organic waste experts, treatment plants a (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    The Europen Green Deal of the new elected Commission inlcudes the folllowing work items with relevance for the bio-waste management sector in Europe:
    ■ Transition to a Circular Economy - A new Circular Economy Action plan (CE 2.0)
    ■ Preserving Europe’s natural capital - Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
    ■ Farm to Fork - Farm to Fork Strategy
    ■ A zero pollution action plan for air, water and soil – a healthier planet for healthier people
    ■ Updating the European Soil Thematic Strategy
    ■ EU Methane Emission Strategy
    ■ 8th Environmental Action Programme

    ECN’s activities on the policy items in 2021 are related to:
    1 Waste Framework Directive
     Monitoring the implementation of the adopted waste legislations in 2018
     Monitoring the early warning mechanism of the European Commission
     Developing a guidance tool to help the European Commission to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of separate collection with the aim of influencing the proposal to harmonize EU rules on separate collection of waste
     Collecting data on generation, treatment and trade of waste across Europe through national country reports
    2 Fertilisers Regulation (FPR)
     Taking part in the Commission’s Expert Group on Fertilising Products and monitoring the implementation of the EU Fertilising Product Regulation
     Following the developments of requirements for the inclusion of new Component Material Categories (CMC) in the Annex II of the Regulation
     Following our application on alternative time-temperature profiles in the Scientific Committee of EFSA
     Taking part in the working groups of Technical Committee on soil improvers and growing media (TC 223) mandated to develop new EU Standards for organic fertilizing products
     Promoting the adoption of requirements for the new CMC “biosolids” in the FPR. Biosolids are sewage sludges after composting treatment
    3 Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation
     Engaging in all the consultations leading to the revision of the regulation
     Promoting EU rules for carbon farming that rewards the use of compost in agriculture or in other land-based activities
     Establishing good contacts with stakeholder and policymakers
    4 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
     Monitoring the trilogues and inform member of relevant developments
     Favouring exchange of views between members who are interested to provide their government with guidance and advice for drafting national CAP Strategic Plans
    5 REACH Regulation
     Monitoring discussion about exemptions for compost and digestate
    6 Sewage Sludge Directive (SSD)
     Engaging in the evaluation of the Directive which sets the requirements for safe agronomic use of sewage sludge in agriculture
    7 Industrial Emission Directive (IED)
     Monitoring and eventually engaging in the revision of the IED, if relevant changes for the waste sector are expected
    8 Farm to Fork Strategy
     Establishing good contacts with several MEPs of ENVI and AGRI committee to prepare some amendments for the resolution of the European Parliament
    9 Biodiversity Strategy (BioDiv)
     Establishing good contacts with several MEPs of ENVI and AGRI committee to prepare some amendments for the resolution of the European Parliament
    10 New Soil Strategy
     Taking part in all the consultations leading to the drafting of the text
    11 Zero Pollution Action Plan for Soil, Air and Water
     Taking part in all the consultations leading to the drafting of the text

    Address

    Head Office
    Im Dohlenbruch 11
    Bochum 44795
    GERMANY
    EU Office
    Rue d'Arlon 63-67
    Brussels 1040
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1
    50%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 Jul 2021

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Stefanie Siebert 11 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021
    Ms Stefanie Siebert 03 May 2018 01 May 2019
    Ms Stefanie Siebert 25 Apr 2017 06 Apr 2018
    Ms Stefanie Siebert 08 Apr 2016 07 Apr 2017

    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

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Affiliate member of EEB www.eeb.org

    Liaison Membership of
    CEN - European Committee for Standardization
    CENELEC - European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
    www.cen.eu - www.cenelec.eu

    The European Compost Network ECN is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes the scientific development of environmental biotechnology worldwide. We organise biowaste conference too.

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    37,500€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Commission expert group on Fertilising Products #E01320#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=1320 #Observer #C#Industry#Expert Group on the exchange of information on Best Available Techniques related to industrial emissions (IED Article 13 Forum)#E02611#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=2611 #Member #C#Industry

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    see descriptin aboov on the policy initiative
    ECN's Communiciation activities

    Other activities

    Provision of information about biological treatment of the biodegradable fraction of municipal solid waste by means of position papers, statements and information events.
    Position paper on biowaste recycling target, End-of-waste standards, biowaste & sludge directive, animal-By products regulation, revision EU Fertiliser Regulation, Resource Efficiency Indicators.

  • 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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