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Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Sandbag Climate Campaign
EU Transparency Register
277895137794-73 First registered on 07 Apr 2020
Goals / Remit
- Advocacy: promote policies favourable to climate change mitigation.
- Thinktank: publish information on trends and impacts of EU policy instrumentsMain EU files targeted
- EU Emissions Trading Scheme: reform of the EU ETS
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
- Renewable Energy Directive
- Effort Sharing Regulation
- National Determined Contributions (NDC) pursuant to the Paris Agreement
- Climate LawAddress
Head Office
60 rue du Trône
Bruxelles 1050
BELGIUMEU Office
60 rue du Trône
Bruxelles 1050
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5
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
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
We are members of Climate Action Network Europe.
Member organisations
Our members are five individuals, of which four are non-executive directors (see https://sandbag.be/index.php/board/)
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
83,253€
Major funding types in closed year
Grants, Donations
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution European Climate Foundation 14,500€ Contribution Energy Foundation China 21,996€ Contribution European Commission 31,950€ Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Publication of reports and policy briefings on EU policy.
(Co-)hosting of events on EU climate policy, directed at policymakers.Other activities
We are members of the Industrial Applications and Transmission & Distribution roundtables of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance (with NGO disclaimer that we only support the use of renewable hydrogen in necessary, targeted applications).
Director Adrien Assous is a member of the expert panel of the Innovation Fund.
Meetings
Meetings
2 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 10 Jun 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable of the Clean Hydrogen Alliance: 3rd meeting of the co-chairs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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- Baker Hughes Holdings
- ING Group
- Neste Oyj
- SSAB AB
- thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG
- Siemens Energy AG
- Tata Steel Nederland
- Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen S.A.
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
- Dow Europe GmbH
- WWF European Policy Programme
- St1 Nordic Oy
- The European Steel Association
- Agora Energiewende
- TotalEnergies SE
- YARA BELGIUM S.A.
- UPM-Kymmene Oyj
- TotalEnergies Electricité et Gaz France
- Paul Wurth S.A.
- Climate Action Network Europe
- International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers
- Fertiberia, S.A.
- European Environmental Bureau
- WACKER CHEMIE AG
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Date 19 May 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Clean Hydrogen Alliance; Hydrogen Strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Joan Canton (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists