Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP)
EU Transparency Register
260483415852-40 First registered on 02 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
ESPP’s objectives are to promote, facilitate, contribute to and/or implement phosphorus sustainability in Europe.
These objectives include in particular, but not exclusively, addressing the following issues:
- phosphorus as a non-renewable and critical resource for agriculture (food supply) and industry in Europe
- sustainable phosphate rock supply, mining and processing, including industrial applications
- phosphorus re-use, recovery and recycling in synergy with other nutrients/minerals and carbon/energy
- phosphorus use effectiveness and efficiency in agriculture (in crop and animal production) and the in the bio-economy (bio-energies and bio-materials production …)
- sustainability and safety of the food chain, from farm-to-forkMain EU files targeted
Fertiliser Regulation revision - STRUBIAS - struvite, biochar, ash - Critical Raw Materials - Circular economy - Standards for secondary raw materials - Agronomic use of recycled nutrients - Nitrates Directive - Biorefineries -
Groundwater Directive - Sewage sludge régulations - Water Framework Directive -
Waste Framework Directive - Industrial Emissions Directive - Agriculture, Environment, Health, International policies, Research & Technology policies - Contaminants (inc pharmaceuticals) in sewage sludge biosolids and in manure - algae - End-of-Waste - Processed manureAddress
Head Office
67 rue de Trèves
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
67 rue de Trèves
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 May 2022
Name Start date End Date Veronica SANTORO 20 Apr 2023 19 Apr 2024 Ms Veronica SANTORO 20 Apr 2023 15 Apr 2024 Mr Christopher Thornton 09 Feb 2018 07 Feb 2019 Mr Christopher Thornton 20 Oct 2016 20 Oct 2017 Complementary Information
Contribution of représentatives of Platform member companies and organisations
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
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
partnership with Global phosphorus / nutrient networks: UNEP-GPNM (global), SPA (North America)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
184,947€
Major funding types in closed year
Member's contribution
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Other financial info
Income is 100% from membership fees. Around 60% of income is from companies' membership fees, around 20% from research projects' and research institutes' membership fees (some of the research projects receive EU funding), and the remaining 20% is membership fees from cities, regions and national nutrient platforms.
In year 2000, exceptional income of 100 000 € (not included in budget indicated above) from partial reimbursement by insurance of money lost in fraud in 2019. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
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#Commission expert group on Fertilising Products #E01320#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=1320 #Observer #C#Professionals
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
SCOPE Newsletter - European Sustainable Phosphorus Conference ESPC - ESPP eNews - Summit of the Organic Fertiliser Industrie in Europe SOFIE - PERM European Phosphorus Research Meeting
Other activities
Platform partnership sectors
Water and waste treatment
Fertilisers & soil amendments, animal feeds, food & beverage industry
Chemicals industries
Technology suppliers, knowledge institutes
Partner networks: composts, digestates, manure management, R&D networks …
Nutrient / phosphorus Platforms/networks: Germany, Baltic (BSAG), Netherlands
Farmers’ organisations, organic farming, environmental and consumer NGOs
Local / regional authorities
Meetings
Meetings
1 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 16 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject Circular Economy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)
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