Forest-based Sector Technology Platform

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

150,000€

Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.5 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Forest-based Sector Technology Platform   (FTP)

    EU Transparency Register

    96415319324-88 First registered on 13 Aug 2012

    Goals / Remit

    FTP may develop, alone or in collaboration with third parties, directly or indirectly, all activities related, directly or indirectly, to its purpose. FTP may, in particular develop the following non exhaustively listed activities for the general or specific account of its Members and/or third parties:

    (a) Create opportunities for cooperative research and innovation at European level;
    (b) Develop and promote a joint vision of the forest-based value-chain in the European Research Area;
    (c) Develop, promote and implement a strategic research and innovation agenda;
    (d) Provide an international platform in which Members, industry’s actors, forest owners and public authorities are working together to advance competitiveness, sustainability and innovation in the forest-based sector;
    (e) Strengthen the innovation profile of the forest-based sector;
    (i) Represent the interests of its Members vis-à-vis the European Union institutions, the governments of countries

    Main EU files targeted

    Horizon 2020,Horizon Europe, European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials, Biobased Industries JU, The Bioeconomy, Energy Intensive Industries, EU Partnership Processes4People, EU Partnership Build4People

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue du Luxembourg, 66
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1
    50%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

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

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Lars Johan ELVNERT 11 Jan 2020 09 Jan 2021
    Lars Johan ELVNERT 15 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019
    Ms Noortje DE LAAT 03 Mar 2018 06 Dec 2018
    Heini HYRKKÖ 21 Sep 2017 13 Sep 2018
    Lars Johan ELVNERT 21 Sep 2017 15 Sep 2018

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    The forest-based sector technology platform is a non-profit international association under Belgian law (aisbl). Founding Members are the following European Confederations and Associations: the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries (CEI-Bois), the Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF), the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) and later joined by the European State Forest Association (EUSTAFOR), who jointly saw the necessity of establishing a Technology Platform for the forest-based sector.
    The association also have company members (Large Full Company Members and SME Full Company Members). As well as associate members.
    The FTP also organise an Advisory Committee consisting of representatives of National Support Groups - a network to strengthen the transparency, cooperation and information exchange in the area of research & innovation.

    Member organisations

    http://new-www.forestplatform.org/#!/pages/46

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    150,000€

    Other financial info

    About half of FTPs budget comes from the European Confederations and half of it comes from Full Company Members/Supporting Companies.

    Our personnel resources and related costs are related to representing our members towards third parties which includes, discussions on information on EU-, and nationally funded research activities, coming to a consensus position and service the forest-based sector with information about open Calls for Proposals in the area research and innovation.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    High level steering group of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials #E03391#http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3391 #Member #C#Industry, Academia/Research, SMEs#EIP Sherpa group #Commission operational expert group of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials #E03392#http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3392 #Member #C#Industry, Academia/Research, SMEs#High Level expert Group on energy-intensive industries#E03326#http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3326 #Not a member #C#Academia/Research#Sub-group 2 - Developing climate-neutral solutions and financing their uptake #Sherpa Group#Expert Group on Forest-based Industries and Sectorally Related Issues#E01356#http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=1356 #Member #C#Academia/Research

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    Horizon Europe
    Biobased Industries Initiative JU
    EIP Raw Materials

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    3 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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