Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
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 dietMain EU files targeted
Fertiliser Regulation revision
STRUBIAS - struvite, biochar, ash working group
Critical Raw Materials
Circular economy for bio-nutrients
Standards for secondary raw materials
Agronomic use of recycled nutrients
Nitrates Directive
Biorefineries
Groundwater Directive
Sewage sludge régulations, ISO 275
Water Framework Directive
Waste Directive, recycling and circular economy
Agriculture, Environment, Health, International policies
Research & Technology policies
Contaminants (inc pharmaceuticals) in sewage sludge biosolids and in manure
Processed manureAddress
Head Office
8 avenue du Dirigeable,
Bruxelles 1170
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 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 03 May 2018
Name Start date End Date Ms Veronica SANTORO 20 Apr 2023 19 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
Mr Ludwig Hermann (President)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Ludwig Hermann (President)
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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
partnership with Global phosphorus / nutrient networks: GPNM (global), SPA (North America)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
NOTE: the "national" and "local/regional" income corresponds to Membership/Partnership fees
NOTE: the "contributions from members" includes both Members ("membres pléniers") and Partners ("membres adhérents") -
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 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2611 #Member #C#Fertilisers Working Group#E01320 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=1320 #Observer #C#Subgroup of the Commission expert group on Recovery Rules for Fertilising Products
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
SCOPE Newsletter
European Sustainable Phosphorus Conference ESPC
ESPP eNewsOther 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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