European Panel Federation

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

5 Fte (5)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

3

High-level Commission meetings

5

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Panel Federation   (EPF)

    EU Transparency Register

    572064811767-22 First registered on 29 Aug 2013

    Goals / Remit

    EPF has members in 25 countries. The EU
    wood panel industry has a turnover of about
    22 billion euro every year, creates over 100,000
    jobs directly and counts more than 5,000
    enterprises in Europe.
    Furthermore, every job in the wood-panel
    industry generates a multiple of jobs in the
    downstream user sectors such as the further
    processing companies and the users in the
    building, furniture and packaging industries,
    which have a strong SME character.
    Additionally, wood panel factories are often
    located in rural, less industrialized or developed
    areas, making an important contribution to the
    local economy.

    Since 1 January 1999, the European Panel
    Federation (EPF), represents the European
    manufacturers of particleboard, MDF and
    OSB, with a total production in 2011 of more
    than 30 million m3 of particleboard, more
    than 11.5 million m3 of MDF and more than
    3.5 million m3 of OSB. EPF thus took over
    the tasks of FESYP, the (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    Renewable Energy, Raw material, ETS, Sustainability, Waste, Recycling, LULUCF, ILUC, Circular economy

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue Montoyer, 24
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Rue Montoyer, 24
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM

    Website

    http://www.europanels.org

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    5

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%5

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 May 2022

    Name Start date End Date
    Isabelle HENIN 19 Jan 2024 17 Jan 2025
    Orifjon ABIDOV 19 Jan 2024 17 Jan 2025
    Alexis KUHL 19 Jan 2024 17 Jan 2025
    Kris WIJNENDAELE 19 Jan 2024 17 Jan 2025
    Clive PINNINGTON 19 Jan 2024 17 Jan 2025
    Kris WIJNENDAELE 27 Jan 2023 19 Jan 2024
    Alexis KUHL 26 Jan 2023 19 Jan 2024
    Isabelle HENIN 18 Jan 2023 18 Jan 2024
    Clive PINNINGTON 14 Jan 2023 13 Jan 2024
    Alexis KUHL 07 Oct 2021 07 Oct 2022
    Kris WIJNENDAELE 02 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022
    Clive PINNINGTON 02 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022
    Alexis KUHL 25 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021
    Clive PINNINGTON 10 Dec 2019 10 Dec 2020
    Kris WIJNENDAELE 10 Dec 2019 10 Dec 2020
    Clive PINNINGTON 12 Dec 2018 10 Dec 2019
    Kris WIJNENDAELE 12 Dec 2018 10 Dec 2019
    Clive PINNINGTON 25 Nov 2017 24 Nov 2018
    Kris WIJNENDAELE 25 Nov 2017 24 Nov 2018
    Clive PINNINGTON 20 Oct 2016 20 Oct 2017
    Kris WIJNENDAELE 20 Oct 2016 20 Oct 2017

    Complementary Information

    Mr Marcello Misaglia, Consultant for EPF
    Mr Orifjon Abidov, Economic Adviser

    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

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant Horizon Project WoodCircus 12,216€

    Intermediaries for closed year

    NameAmount
    missaglia e associati 10,000€ - 24,999€

    Intermediaries for current year

    Name
    missaglia e associati

    Closed year Costs

    1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Commission Expert Group/Multi-Stakeholder Platform on Protecting and Restoring the World’s Forests, including the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT Regulation#E03282#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3282 #Member #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#Expert Group on Forest-based Industries and Sectorally Related Issues#E01356#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=1356 #Member #C#Industry

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    -LULUCF
    -ILUC
    -Waste
    -Sustainability Building
    -Carbon Leakage
    -Competitiveness of the woodworking and furniture industries
    -Research and Innovation
    -Forest strategy
    -Trade

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    5 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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