Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Crop Care Association (ECCA)
EU Transparency Register
059443622722-41 First registered on 18 Jul 2016
Goals / Remit
The associations goals are:
- to inform its members about legislation and regulation in the EU and its Member States affecting their business;
- to research into common solutions of any legal, financial, scientific and technical issues caused by community or national legislation or regulation, with the intention to improve or develop the members' economic activities;
- to represent its members in all occurring situations towards the European Institutions and Memberstates;
- to be the single point of contact of its members for regulatory authorities at any level with regartd to the placing on the market of substances and products;
- to organise meetings between its members, and/or with regulatory authorities, to distribute information, to develop, draft and distribute proposals on possible solutions for common problems to regulatory authorities, and to legally represent its members.Main EU files targeted
Regulation 1107/2009 on the placing on the market of plant protection products, and all related files, such as:
- Uniform Principles,
- Labelling Requirements,
- Data requirements for substances and products,
- Basic substances,
- Low Risk substances,
- Candidates for substitution and Comparative Assessment,
- Approval Criteria,
- conditions and restrictions,
- Endocrine Disruptors,
- Developmental Neurotoxicity and Immunotoxicity,
- Zonal Authorisations and worksharing,
- Mutual Recognition of authorisations,
- Harmonisation of Memberstate specific requirements,
- Renewal of approvals and authorisations,
- coformulants and adjuvants,
- safeners and synergists,
- Dossier formatting,
- Data Protection,
- Procedural and Technical Guidance covering the provisions of the Regulation
Regulation 396/2005 on maximum residu levels of pesticides in food and feed;
Directive 2009/128 on the sustainable use of pesticides;
Directive 2009/127 on machinery for pesticide application;
Regulation 1272/2008 on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP Regulation);
Regulation 1907/2006 , REACH Regulation
Regulation 649/2012 on import/export of dangerous chemicals, the PIC-Regulation;
Regulation 178/2002 Foodlaw;
Legislation on:
- Intellectual Property,
- Public Access to information (incl. so-called Aarhus Regulation),
- pesticides allowed in organic agriculture
- fertilisers and biostimulants
- soil and water policyAddress
Head Office
Ridderstraat 14 Rue des Chevaliers
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The ECCA Secretariat consists of a secretary (0.3 fte) and a Technical Director (0.3 fte)
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Hans Mattaar (Technical Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Kozlen Steve (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
ECCA is a founding member of AgroCare, the global Association that represents the generic agrochemical industry.
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
Only a small part of the total ECCA budget is allocated to interest representation ("lobbying"). The main tasks are the collection, consolidation and distribution of information on developments in the regulatory domain, with a focus on the specific interests of small and medium-sized enterprises in the post-patent (generic) domain.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
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#Advisory Group on the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health#E00860 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=860 #Observer #C#Working Group on Plant Health
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- bee-health policy,
- endocrine disruptor policy,
-Other activities
member of EFSA Stakeholder Platform
- Meetings
Meetings
None declared
- Meetings