Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
CEN Technical Committee 260 "Fertilizers and liming materials" (CEN/TC 260)
EU Transparency Register
040286513820-08 First registered on 23 Jun 2014
Goals / Remit
Scope of CEN/TC 260:
Fertilizers and liming materials: Harmonization of denominations, specifications, marking, methods of test (physical and/or chemical) and safety conditions, related to fertilizers and Liming materials. Work on items covered by EEC directives currently existing should only be undertaken at the invitation of the Commission.
CEN/TC 260 elaborates
Priorities:
To make European Standards available related to:
• Methods of sampling and analysis of EC-fertilizers (Mandates M/335, M/418 and M/454) regarding the following main aspects:
- Quality and composition
- Instrumental methods for the determination of heavy metals
- Tolerances on analytical methods
- Methods on new types of fertilizers
• Liming materials
- Organic and organo-mineral fertilizers
Benefits:
• Since 1995, about 80 European Standards, 12 Technical Specifications and 6 CEN-Reports were adopted.
• Harmonization of methods of sampling and analysis of fertilizers and liming materials, necessary for a European and worldwide market regarding these products.
• The need of the European Commission to modernise and harmonise methods of sampling and analysis, reinforced by regulation (EC) No 2003/2003.Main EU files targeted
CEN/TC 260 has nominated two observers to the meetings of the DG GROW Fertilizer working group.
Address
Head Office
Burggrafenstraße, 6
Berlin 10787
GERMANY -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
CEN/TC 260 has got a Chair and a secretariat. The secretariat is held by DIN, the German Institute for Standardization. DIN is a member of CEN, the European Standardization organization. The technical work and elaboration of the standards is done in working groups as follows:
WG 1 Sampling (Chair: UK, Secretariat: DIN, Germany)
WG 2 Physical methods (Chair: The Netherlands, Secretariat: NEN, The Netherlands)
WG 3 Liming materials (Chair: Germany, Secretariat: DIN, Germany)
WG 5 Chelating agents (Chair: Spain, Secretariat: AENOR, Spain)
WG 7 Chemical analysis (Chair: The Netherlands, Secretariat: NEN, The Netherlands)
WG 8 Organic and organo-mineral fertilizers, (Chair: France, Secretariat: AFNOR, France)Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Dietrich Pradt (Chairman)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Dietrich Pradt (Chairman)
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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
CEN/TC 260 is working in external liaison with important European associations in the field of Fertilizers and liming materials as follows:
Fertilizers Europe (IFA)
Industrial Minerals Association (IMA)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
40,000 € (Source: DG GROW Mandates M/335 and M/454)
Other financial info
CEN/TC 260 is the official approved standardization body and not asking for membership fees or any other financial contributions. The standardization work is financed by the memberbodies of CEN (see above mentioned CEN member countries).
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
The next plenary meeting of CEN/TC 260 will be in Berlin from 29th to 30th September 2016.
Other activities
CEN/TC 260 has developed, approved and published the following European Standards (European Norm = EN):
Under the Frame of Mandate M/418:
• EN 16317:2013-10 (under mandate M/418)
Fertilizers - Determination of trace elements – Determination of arsenic by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) after aqua regia dissolution
• EN 16318:2013-10 (under mandate M/418)
Fertilizers - Determination of trace elements – Determination of chromium (VI) by photometry (method A) and by ion chromatography with spectrophotometric detection (method B)
• EN 16319:2013-10 (under mandate M/418)
Fertilizers - Determination of trace elements – Determination of cadmium, chromium, lead and nickel by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) after aqua regia dissolution
• EN 16320:2013-02 (under mandate M/418)
Fertilizers - Determination of trace elements – Determination of mercury by vapour generation (VG) after aqua regia dissolution
Standards published in 2013 in the field of liming materials:
• EN 16357:2013-07
Carbonate liming materials — Determination of reactivity — Automatic titration method with citric acid
Meetings
Meetings
None declared