Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jul 2012 - Jul 2013
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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 European federation of associations of the particleboard manufacturers (founded in 1958) and Euro MDF Board, the European federation of MDF manufacturers (founded in 1986). In March 2012 also the leading European manufacturers of wet process fibreboards decided to join EPF, who were previously represented by FEROPA. Since then, EPF also operates the ‘Natural Fibre Boards’ (NFB) trademark.Main EU files targeted
Renewable Energy, Raw material, ETS, Sustainability, Waste, Recycling, LULUCF, ILUC
Address
Head Office
Rue Montoyer, 24
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 6 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 09 Apr 2015
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
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Isabelle Brose (Economic adviser)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Kris Wijnendaele (Secretary General)
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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
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jul 2012 - Jul 2013
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
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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Date 17 Sep 2021 Location Video-conference Subject Upcoming Russian export ban on logs Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet member)
- Sofja Ribkina (Cabinet member)
- Caroline Boeshertz (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 11 Feb 2021 Location Videoconference Subject EU level initiatives important for the construction ecosystem Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Eszter Batta (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Sep 2019 Location BREY-Brussels Subject Present EPF and their priorities DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Timo Pesonen (Acting Director-General)
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Date 10 Apr 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Energy policy DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 16 Nov 2016 Location Brussels Subject Wood panel sector, circular economy, cascading use of wood DG Environment Attending - Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)