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Overview
Lobbying Costs
2,375,000€
Financial year: Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
7 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
The Cobalt Development Institute (CDI)
EU Transparency Register
777244615994-94 First registered on 10 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
The Cobalt Development Institute (CDI) is a global non-profit trade association set up by industry representing over 60% of the world-wide production of cobalt. The CDI supports the cobalt industry for the sustainable and responsible primary and secondary production, use, re-use, recycling and trading of cobalt in all forms. It has an on-going extensive research programme on cobalt human health and environmental aspects and works with the scientific community.
The CDI members are miners, producers, manufacturers and end-users of the cobalt and cobalt compounds. It hosts the Cobalt REACH consortium (CoRC) under its umbrella which deals more specifically with REACH and CLP matters.Main EU files targeted
REACH- all aspects (Authorisation, Restriction, Evaluation, Registration), SVHC nomination, Candidate Listing
OELs- SCOEL-DG-EMPL
RoHS
Water Framework
Raw Materials (EIP), Critical Raw Materials
Classification and LabellingAddress
Head Office
The Cobalt Development Institute
18 Jeffries Passage
Guildford GU1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 7 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
7
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The CDI and the CoRC employ in total 11 FTEs, most of whom share their time between the two organisations depending on the needs.
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Brigitte Amoruso (Advocacy and PR manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr David Weight (General Manager)
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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
Member of Eurometaux.
Member of the CRMs Alliance (for Critical Raw Materials).
Non-Ferrous Alliance (UK)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
2,375,000€
Other financial info
These costs relate to the running of the Cobalt REACH Consortium (CoRC) which was set up specifically for the implementation of the REACH Regulation.
This includes generation of studies, data and preparation of registration dossiers required under REACH, as well as the coordination of all activities on behalf of the Consortium members. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Ad hoc Work Group on Critical Raw Materials (DG-GROWTH)
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
see above
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
4 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 05 Jun 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject The role of cobalt in the clean energy transition DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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Date 28 May 2019 Location Brussels Subject Chemicals and Cobalt in particular Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Sebastien Paquot (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 May 2019 Location BERL Subject industrial policy, climate and the circular economy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 May 2019 Location Brussels Subject Climate action and circular economy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists
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