Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
18
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Gas Distributors for Sustainability (GD4S)
EU Transparency Register
382692732615-35 First registered on 19 Sep 2018
Goals / Remit
The GD4S'objectives are:
- to promote policies and technical developments at European level aiming at fostering the use of natural & renewable gases distribution
- to support, evaluate and share the results of research and practical experiences and projects of the members
- to promote the common interests of gas distributors
- to disseminate information & educating materials on natural and renewable gases as well as technologies relevant to distribution infrastructure and decarbonisation
- to answer to European expertise and EU funds calls relevant for the development of natural and renewable gases usesMain EU files targeted
- Proposal for a regulation setting CO2 emission performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles
- Proposal for a Regulation of the EP and of the Council setting emission performance standards for new passenger cars and for new light commercial vehicles as part of the Union's integrated approach to reduce CO2 emissions from light-duty vehicles and amending Regulation (EC) No 715/2007
- Proposal for a Directive of the EP and of the Council amending Directive 2009/33/EU on the promotion of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles
- Proposal for a Directive of EP and of the Council amending Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency
- Proposal for a Directive of the EP and of the Council on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources
- EU long-term strategy for CO2 emissions reduction
- EU Green Deal
- EU strategy for smart sector integration
- EU strategy for methane emission
- EU taxonomy
- Review of the TEN-E Regulation
- Winter gas package
- Fit for 55 packageAddress
Head Office
66 avenue de Cortenbergh
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
66 avenue de Cortenbergh
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 May 2022
Name Start date End Date Mr Armand Camboulives 07 Jun 2023 06 Jun 2024 Ms Morgane GORET-LE GUEN 06 Jun 2023 05 Jun 2024 Ms Morgane GORET-LE GUEN 27 Apr 2022 27 Apr 2023 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
None declared
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
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount athenora consulting 50,000€ - 99,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name athenora consulting Closed 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
Communication activities
- Workshop of June 20th 2018 "Clean mobility:
Which contribution from natural and renewable gas?"
- Series of private workshop of March 12th and April 4th 2019 with NGOs on role of renewable gas for energy transition
- Green gas: what's the future of gas grids in a climate neutral EU? Webinar of November 30th 2020
- Webinar (Enlit Europe) - Energy System integration at the distribution level: key to delivering the EU Green Deal - 18th March 2021
- Webinar "The truth about sector coupling" - 20th September 2021
- White paper "Gas grids: a key enabler of dercarbonisation - GD4S' commitment to deliver on the EU Green Deal" - June 2021Other activities
Participation to the Energy Infrastructure Forum 2019 (Copenhagen) and to the 11th Citizens Energy Forum (Dublin).
- Meetings
Meetings
18 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 Jun 2023 Location Brussels Subject Renewable gasses Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
- Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Sep 2022 Location video-call Subject CO2 standards for trucks Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Daniel Mes (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Sep 2022 Location conference call Subject transport Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Sep 2022 Location conference call Subject CO2 Standards for heavy duty vehicles Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 May 2022 Location Brussels Subject GD4S Sustainability Charter 'Decarbonising the gas grid as a key enabler for a climate neutral society'. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Tatiana Marquez Uriarte (Cabinet member)
- Kadri Simson (Commissioner)
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Date 19 Apr 2022 Location BERL Subject sustainable gas/carbon neutrality Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Mar 2022 Location video-call Subject RePowerEU Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Nov 2021 Location Online Subject Gas market and security of supply framework. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Tatiana Marquez Uriarte (Cabinet member)
- Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
- Kadri Simson (Commissioner)
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Date 12 Oct 2021 Location Online Subject Presentation of GD4S White Paper on the role of gas networks as key enabler of the EU's energy transition. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Tatiana Marquez Uriarte (Cabinet member)
- Kadri Simson (Commissioner)
- Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Sep 2021 Location Virtual Subject Gas grids: a key enabler of decarbonisation Discuss the Energy Efficiency Directive the TEN-E Regulation and proposals to reduce methane emissions and leaks in the natural gas value chain. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Katherine Power (Cabinet member)
- Peter Power (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Jul 2021 Location Brussels Subject Gas Distribution for Sustainability Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Maciej Golubiewski (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Mar 2021 Location Virtual Subject EU taxonomy, draft delegated act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Katherine Power (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Mar 2021 Location virtual Subject Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy DG Mobility and Transport Attending - Henrik Hololei (Director-General)
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Date 02 Feb 2021 Location Brussels (video conference) Subject Virtual meeting on Gas Package Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
- Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Nov 2020 Location phone call Subject Sustainable and smart mobility strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Sep 2020 Location Videoconference call Subject Energy system integration, decarbonisation of gases and the related regulatory framework, methane emissions. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
- Kadri Simson (Commissioner)
- Kitti Nyitrai (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Jan 2020 Location Brussels Subject Green Deal and Renewable gas in Europe DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
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Date 18 Feb 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject The role of gas DSOs in the context of European gas markets DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists
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