Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.4 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Fachverband Biogas - German Biogas Association (FvB / GBA)
EU Transparency Register
595041411471-64 First registered on 22 Jul 2013
Goals / Remit
Fachverband Biogas e.V. (FvB, German Biogas Association) unites operators, manufacturers and planners of biogas plants, representatives from science and research and all those interested in the biogas industry. Since its establishment in 1992, the association has become Europe’s most powerful organization in the field of biogas with more than 4,600 members. Fachverband Biogas campaigns for the increased use of biogas technology through political lobbying at EU, national and state level. Furthermore, it encourages the exchange of biogas-related information and knowledge, for instance through collecting, evaluating and spreading knowledge of scientific findings and practical experience, or by means of conferences, exhibitions and other events. Fachverband Biogas aims at expanding and promoting biogas production in Germany in order to provide for a safe, sustainable and decentral energy provision.
Main EU files targeted
- Fertilizer Regulations
- ILUC
- Energy Union
- Heating & Cooling
- Fit for 55- Package
- Sustainability of solid and gaseous biomass
- Gas Package 2030
- European Green Deal
- Methane Strategy
- 2030 Climate and Energy Framework
- CEEAG
- Taxonomy Regulation / Sustainable Finance
- EU Biodiversity Stategy
-Soil Health
- Electricity Market Design
- Green HydrogenAddress
Head Office
Angerbrunnenstr. 12
Freising 85356
GERMANYEU Office
Angerbrunnenstr. 12
Freising 85356
GERMANYWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 2 10% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.4
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
European Renewable Energy Federation (EREF, http://www.eref-europe.org/)
Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien (BEE, https://www.bee-ev.de/home/)
Bundesverband Bioenergie (BBE, https://www.bioenergie.de/)
World Bioenergy Association (WBA, https://worldbioenergy.org/)
European Biogas Association (EBA, http://european-biogas.eu/)
European Compost Network (ECN, https://www.compostnetwork.info/)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Other activities
None declared
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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 15 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject Biogas Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Commission - Shane Sutherland (Cabinet member)
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