Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.85 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Koninklijke Vopak N.V. (Vopak)
EU Transparency Register
285948740901-10 First registered on 11 Jan 2021
Goals / Remit
Royal Vopak helps the world flow forward. At ports around the world, we provide storage and infrastructure for vital products that enrich everyday life. These products include liquids and gases that provide energy for homes and businesses, chemicals for manufacturing products, and edible oils for cooking. For all of these, our worldwide network of terminals supports the global flow of supply and demand. For over 400 years, Vopak has been at the forefront of fundamental transformations. With a focus on safety, reliability and efficiency, we help drive progress. Our talented people are applying this mindset to support the energy transition. Together with our partners and customers, we are accelerating the development of infrastructure solutions for hydrogen, ammonia, CO₂, long-duration energy storage and low-carbon fuels & feedstocks – paving the way to a more sustainable future. Vopak is listed on the Euronext Amsterdam and headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. See www.vopak.com
Main EU files targeted
Hydrogen & Gas Package - TEN-E / CEF - Innovation Fund - IPCEI - REPowerEU - Green Deal Industrial Plan - CCS Strategy - Net Zero Industrial Act - CBAM - Clean Industrial Deal
Address
Head Office
Westerlaan 10
Rotterdam 3016 CK
NETHERLANDSEU Office
Westerlaan 10
Rotterdam 3016 CK
NETHERLANDSWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.85
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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Vopak is a member of a wide range of organizations, forums, industry associations, professional associations, think tanks, research institutes, technical working groups, and public-private partnerships. We are committed not to engage in direct lobbying or other activities that run against our values, Code of Conduct, sustainability policy, purpose, or business strategy. Therefore, we periodically review our corporate memberships to confirm that their mission and activities are aligned with our values and purpose and support our strategy and our sustainability goals and targets.
See here for Vopak's memberships: https://www.vopak.com/system/files/Vopak%20Memberships%20-%20VBDO%20-%20Complete%20reviewed%20list%20-%20.pdf
To name a few organisations Vopak is member of:
Antwerp Declaration
CIEP
Deltalinqs
Energy Storage NL
EPCA
Essencia
Getting to Zero Coalition
Hydrogen Council
Hydrogen Europe
Institute for Sustainable Process Technology
International Energy Forum
VNO-NCW
VOTOB
World Economic Forum
World Energy Council
https://www.vopak.com/system/files/Vopak_Annual_Report_2023_.pdfMember 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 2024 - Dec 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant IPCEI H2-infra 86,360,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount nove 25,000€ - 49,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name nove Closed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
Vopak participates in a hydrogen project that has been rewarded with an EU IPCEI status (Northern Green Crane)
Vopak participates in a CO2 terminal project that has been awarded EU CEF subsidy (CO2next). -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Vopak is participating in various advocacy activities as a member of i.a. ECH2A, Hydrogen Europe, Hydrogen Council, as a partner in various hydrogen export/import projects both from non-EU countries into the EU and intra EU (EU hydrogen corridors).
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 01 Jun 2023 Location Amsterdam Subject Hydrogen Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Apr 2023 Location Brussels Subject Energy, environmental and digital challenges of our time Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists