Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
SOFORT GmbH (SOFORT GmbH)
EU Transparency Register
530777916929-10 First registered on 14 Apr 2015
Goals / Remit
SOFORT GmbH, based in Gauting near Munich (Germany), offers products and services for the secure purchase of goods and digital products on the Internet. The company is part of the Klarna Group, the leading European payment provider. Besides the payment method SOFORT Banking, SOFORT GmbH offers, among others, the online-verification system SOFORT Ident and SOFORT Banking Paycode. With the TÜV Saarland certified payment system SOFORT Banking, SOFORT GmbH is the market leader among the direct transfer methods in Germany and Austria, which operate based on online banking as we know it. More than 35,000 eCommerce shops process about three million transactions per month using SOFORT Banking. SOFORT Banking is available in thirteen countries: Aside from Germany, the system works in Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and the UK.
Main EU files targeted
Payments-related legislation, especially the Payment Services Directive (PSD2)
Address
Head Office
Fußbergstraße 1
Gauting 82131
GERMANY -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 18 Mar 2016
Name Start date End Date Mr Georg Schardt 26 Oct 2016 10 Oct 2017 Mr Jens Dr. Lütcke 26 Oct 2016 10 Oct 2017 Mr Jens Dr. Lütcke 25 Apr 2015 23 Apr 2016 Mr Georg Schardt 24 Apr 2015 22 Apr 2016 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Georg Schardt (Managing Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Georg Schardt (Managing Director)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
EPIF
EPSMMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Payment Systems Market Expert Group (PSMEG)
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
- 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 17 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject draft Regulatory Technical Standards PSD2 Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
- Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 10 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Startups Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
- Meetings