Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
12
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
New Breeding Techniques Platform (NBT Platform)
EU Transparency Register
303808417118-14 First registered on 27 Apr 2015
Goals / Remit
The New Breeding Techniques Platform (‘NBT Platform’) is a coalition of SMEs, large industry and prominent academic and research institutes which strives to bring clarity to the European debate on New Breeding Techniques.
The primary objective of the NBT Platform is to achieve regulatory clarity on whether or not NBTs are to be defined as leading to a genetically modified organism (‘GMO’) within the meaning of Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release into the environment of Genetically Modified Organisms.
The NBT Platform also aims to provide policy makers and stakeholders with clear and precise information on NBTs and to generate awareness about their potential benefits for the plant breeding sector, consumers and society as a whole.Main EU files targeted
- Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms
- Ongoing legal analysis carried out by the European Commission, which aims to interpretate the definition of Genetically Modified Organisms provided for by Directive 2001/18/EC as well as to clarify whether NBTs fall under the scope of this directive.
- Ongoing revision of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 concerning novel foods & novel food ingredients
- Ongoing revision of Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 concerning organic foodsAddress
Head Office
Rue Belliard 199
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM -
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
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 16 May 2024
Name Start date End Date Edwin Hecker 01 Oct 2017 01 Sep 2018 Andrea BOCCUNI 21 Sep 2017 01 Sep 2018 Edwin Hecker 18 May 2016 14 May 2017 Andrea BOCCUNI 11 May 2016 05 May 2017 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Edwin Hecker (Chairman)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Edwin Hecker (Chairman)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
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
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
12 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 11 Sep 2018 Location Brussels Subject The legal status of NBTs in Europe and the implications of the ECJ ruling for the agri-food sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Sep 2018 Location brussels Subject legal status of NBTs in Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Robert Schröder (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject New breeding techniques Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Dec 2017 Location Brussels Subject Explanatory Note on NBTs (New Breeding Techniques Platforms) Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Anthony Agotha (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Feb 2017 Location Brussels, BERL Subject the Commission’s Explanatory Note on NBTs and the ECJ’s preliminary procedure that will clarify the legal status of organisms obtain with mutagenesis Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Dermot Ryan (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject NBTs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 May 2016 Location BERL 08/304 Subject implications of the upcoming “Guidance document that will clarify the legal status of NBTs” for the EU agricultural and plant breeding sector, negative consequences that a classification of these techniques under the EU GMO legislation may imply for European farmers and plant breeders sector, the legal interpretation of the Dir. 2001/18/EC; the socio-economic impact of the Guidance document on the food supply-chain; the impact of the Guidance document on the European plant breeding sector and the legal status of NBTs outside the EU Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Dermot Ryan (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Mar 2016 Location BERL 08/304 Subject discuss the implications of this guidance document for the EU agricultural and plant breeding sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Dermot Ryan (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Legal status of New Breeding Techniques Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - José Mendes Bota (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject New breeding techniques Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Hilde Hardeman (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject NBTs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
- Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
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Date 27 Apr 2015 Location Brussels (BELGIUM) Subject Update on the recent contacts NBT Platform had with MS representatives on the issue of NBTs DG Health and Food Safety Attending - Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General)