Growing Media Europe

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

250,000€

Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

2 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Growing Media Europe   (GME)

    EU Transparency Register

    01873234294-62 First registered on 05 Oct 2010

    Goals / Remit

    Growing Media Europe AISBL is an international non-profit organisation representing the producers of growing media and soil improvers at European level.

    Our main objective is to promote optimum legislation for the manufacturing as well as the free and fair trade of growing media within Europe. Coordinating our work with the member companies and associate members all over Europe, we aim to ensure a single voice for the industry. We provide scientific information as well as technical expertise on the use of growing media products and act as focal point for political decision makers and stakeholders inside and outside the European Institutions.

    Growing Media Europe is committed to the highest environmental standards, to the sustainable use of natural resources and to contributing to the competitiveness of the European horticultural sector by providing high quality growing media products.

    Main EU files targeted

    Organic Farming
    Plant Health
    CE-marked Fertilising Product Regulation
    Circular Economy
    Common Agricultural Policy
    Eco-Labeling
    Sustainability
    LULUCF
    Food Security
    Food Safety
    Food Waste
    Life cycle Assessment
    Green Deal, climate policy
    Famr to Fork Strategy
    Biodiversity Strategy

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue de Treves 61
    Brussels 1040
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    2

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 04 Jan 2021

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Geoffrey BENNETT 14 Nov 2023 13 Nov 2024
    Ms Cecilia Luetgebrune 14 Nov 2023 13 Nov 2024
    Mr Geoffrey BENNETT 17 Nov 2022 14 Nov 2023
    Ms Cecilia Luetgebrune 09 Nov 2022 09 Nov 2023
    Ms Cecilia Luetgebrune 28 Oct 2021 28 Oct 2022
    Ms Cecilia Luetgebrune 01 May 2019 01 May 2020
    Mr Ignacio Gentiluomo 13 Feb 2018 14 Feb 2019
    Ms Cecilia Luetgebrune 15 Jan 2018 22 Dec 2018
    Ms Cecilia Luetgebrune 15 Nov 2016 12 Nov 2017

    Complementary Information

    Growing Media Europe AISBL has two employees, the full time Secretary General and full time Public Affairs Advisor. Our 5 Board Members are working for the association (unpaid, they all have other full time jobs) on an honorary basis but for far less than 25% of their working time. Since June 2019 and September 2020, we also work with two external consultants (self-employed), who work a few hours per month for GME.

    As we have internal working groups within the association, some representatives of our members are involved in the activities described under heading 9. However, this would be less than 25% of their working time (as they have all other full time jobs at our member companies)

    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

    Agaris Belgium
    Alfarroxo
    Biolan Group
    Bord na Móna
    Eifel-Holz AG
    Floragard Vertriebs-GmbH
    Galenieki
    Griendtsveen
    Grodan Group
    Hawita Gruppe
    ICL Group
    Jiffy Group
    Kekkilä - BVB
    Klasmann-Deilmann
    Lasland
    Legro Group
    Līvānu Kūdras Fabrika
    Pindstrup Mosebrug
    COMPO
    Projar

    AFAÏA
    AIPSA - ​Associazione Italiana di Produttori di Substrati di coltivazione e Ammendanti
    APTYS
    BPF - Belgian Potting Soil Federation
    EESTI TURBALIIT
    GGS - Gütegemeinschaft Substrate fur Pflanzen
    Growing Media Association
    Irish Commercial Peat Producers Association
    IVG - Industrieverband Garten
    Latvijas Kūdras Asociācija - Latvian Peat Producers Association
    Lietuviškos Durpės - Lithuanian Peat Producers Association
    RHP - Regeling Handels Potgronden
    Svensk Torv - Swedish Peat Association
    UPJ - Union des entreprises pour la protection des jardins et des espaces verts
    VPN - Vereniging Potgrond en Substraatfabrikanten Nederland

    Member organisations

    www.growing-media.eu

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    250,000€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Commission expert group on Fertilising Products #E01320#http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=1320 #Observer #C#Industry

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    - Events in the European Parliament (conferences, receptions, exhibitions)
    - Parliamentary Evenings/Lunch events
    - Field trips for site visits
    - Personal meetings with MEPs, assistants and other EP staff
    - Publications: Position papers/resolutions, Joint Statements, handouts, letters, press releases, website, presentations,
    LinkedIn posts, job offers, flyers, posters

    Other activities

    Internal projects:

    - Developing a Code of Practice for sustainability for GM products
    - Applying for a revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for growing media and soil improver
    - Study on the socio-economic impact of the growing media sector in Europe
    - Study on Life Cycle Assessment, developing a PEFCR guideline for growing media and an LCA tool

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    2 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 28 Apr 2021 Location video phone call
      Subject Raw materials and sustainable food production.
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski
      Portfolio Agriculture
      Attending
      • Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
    • Date 26 Jun 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject single market harmonisation in view of the importance of horticulture
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
      Portfolio Agriculture &amp; Rural Development
      Attending
      • Peter Power (Cabinet member)
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