Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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 AssessmentAddress
Head Office
Rue de Treves 49-51
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 18 Jan 2019
Name Start date End Date Geoffrey BENNETT 14 Nov 2023 13 Nov 2024 Cecilia Luetgebrune 14 Nov 2023 13 Nov 2024 Mr Geoffrey BENNETT 14 Nov 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Cecilia Luetgebrune 14 Nov 2023 15 Apr 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 onyl one employee, the full time Secretary General. 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
Ms Luetgebrune Cecilia (Secretary General of GME)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Vandaele Stefaan (Chairman Growing Media Europe)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
The following associations are members in Growing Media Europe:
- AIPSA - Associazione Italiana di Produttori di Substrati di coltivazione e Ammendanti
- UPJ - UNION DES ENTREPRISES POUR LA PROTECTION DES JARDINS ET DES ESPACES VERTS)
- AFAÏA
- BPF - Belgian Potting Soil Federation
- Lithuanian Association of Peat Producers
- Latvian Peat Producers Association
- Swedish Peat Association
- RHP - Regeling Handels Potgronden
- VPN - Vereniging Potgrond - en Substraatfabrikanten Nederland
- IVG Industrieverband Garten e.V.
- UK Growing Media Association
- GGS Gütegemeinschaft Substrate
- APTYS - Spanish national association for growing mediaMember organisations
www.growing-media.eu
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Fertilisers Working Group#E01320 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=1320 #Observer #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- Events in the European Parliament (conferences, receptions, exhibitions)
- Parliamentary Evenings/Lunch events
- Field trips for site visits
- Personal meetings with MEPs and assistants
- Publications: Position papers, Joint Statements, handouts, letters, press releases, websiteOther activities
Internal projects:
- Adopting a sustainability agenda and developing a Code of Practice for GM products
- Applying for a revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for growing media and soil improver
- Market monitoring (Industry data gathering study) to be started in 2019
- Study on Life Cycle Assessment of growing media products
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.
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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)
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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 & Rural Development Attending - Peter Power (Cabinet member)