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
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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 PolicyAddress
Head Office
c/o PKF Littlejohn
15 Westferry Circus
London E14 4HD
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 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)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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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.
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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-frameworkOther 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.
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Date 11 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Biomass Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Yvon Slingenberg (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Biomass Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Shane Sutherland (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Jan 2016 Location Brussels Subject Sustainability of biomass DG Climate Action Attending - Jos Delbeke (Director-General)
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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)
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Date 02 Jul 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Biomass DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings