Sustainable Biomass Program

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

9,999€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.5 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

5

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Sustainable Biomass Program   (SBP)

    EU Transparency Register

    888745515605-77 First registered on 15 Jan 2015

    Goals / Remit

    The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) is a certification system designed for woody biomass, mostly in the form of wood pellets and woodchips, used in industrial, large scale energy production. SBP's objective is to promote and maintain internationally, an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable biomass supply chain through the development and operation of an independent, third-party certification system.

    Main EU files targeted

    The Sustainable Biomass Program aims to inform EU stakeholders about its activities, support the work of European policy makers and regulators in integrating woody biomass use for large scale energy production into low carbon energy policy, and provide a tool for European utilities using biomass for energy production to demonstrate compliance with regulatory, including sustainability, requirements.

    The most relevant EU initiatives of interest to the SBP are

    - Energy Union Package 'A Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy'
    - Roadmap for the Energy Union (including several specific work streams mentioned in the Roadmap)
    - Renewable Energy Package
    - Renewable Energy Directive for 2030
    - Bioenergy Sustainability Policy

    Address

    Head Office
    c/o PKF Littlejohn
    15 Westferry Circus
    London E14 4HD
    UNITED KINGDOM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Melanie Wedgbury (Communications and Information)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Carsten Huljus (Chief Executive Officer)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    9,999€

    Other financial info

    From 1 January 2018, SBP moved to a (majority) self-funding model, with fees collected from Certificate Holders and the remainder through membership subscriptions.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    The SBP Framework is the most relevant aspect of the SBP's work concerning the sustainable biomass supply chain. Details of the SBP Framework and its standards and processes can be found on the website. Link provided below

    http://www.sbp-cert.org/sbp-framework

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    5 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.

    • Date 11 Oct 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Biomass
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete
      Portfolio Climate Action &amp; Energy
      Attending
      • Yvon Slingenberg (Cabinet member)
    • Date 10 Oct 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Biomass
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
      Portfolio Agriculture &amp; Rural Development
      Attending
      • Shane Sutherland (Cabinet member)
    • Date 25 Jan 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Sustainability of biomass
      DG Climate Action
      Attending
      • Jos Delbeke (Director-General)
    • Date 08 Jan 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject dialogue with the Commission on how biomass can contribute to the ambitious CO2 and renewables targets laid out in the Energy Union plan
      DG Agriculture and Rural Development
      Attending
      • Jerzy Bogdan Plewa (Director-General)
    • Date 02 Jul 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject Biomass
      DG Energy
      Attending
      • Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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