Overview
Lobbying Costs
820,000€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
10.5 Fte (12)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Clerens
EU Transparency Register
30465337601-04 First registered on 04 Jan 2012
Goals / Remit
Clerens is specialised in advising different sizes of enterprises on business development opportunities with the European Union institutions. Marc Clerens started Clerens Consulting in 1991, after founding and directing for approximately 4 years, as Senior Director (Prokurist) of Siemens AG, Germany, the Siemens EU Liaison Office in Brussels. With the experience gained during this period he decided to start his own consulting activities. Consequently CC has over 25 years of experience in EU Affairs.
Amongst our clients we have and had industry associations, technology giants, small and medium enterprises and political foundations. We are on one side specialised in project lobbying, advising medium to large technology-related enterprises on business development opportunities with EU institutions; monitoring and identifying tendering opportunities; assistance during proposal preparation and follow-up lobbying. On the other side we also do political lobbying, m (...)Main EU files targeted
Clerens is following various topics on behalf of the associations it manages. See their respective entries for details.
Clerens' own activities are focused to monitoring Funding opportunities.
We follow energy topics:
Energy Union Package, Investment Plan for Europe (e.g. EFSI), 2030 Framework, Internal Energy Market, Energy Infrastructure (e.g. PCIs),
Large Combustion Plant Best Reference Document, Industrial Cooling Systems Best Reference Document, Medium Combustion Plant Directive, Horizon 2020, SET-PLAN, EU Energy Union, EU Investment Plan, Council Export Credit Group Discussion
IED and BREFs, Circular Economy, Energy & Climate Package, etcAddress
Head Office
Avenue Adolphe Lacomblé, 59
Brussels 1030
BELGIUMEU Office
Avenue Adolphe Lacomblé, 59
Brussels 1030
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
12
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 9 50% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
10.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 15 Jan 2025
Name Start date End Date Patrick CLERENS 30 Jul 2024 30 Jul 2025 Patrick CLERENS 26 Jan 2024 01 Aug 2024 Ms Doriana FORLEO 21 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Patrick CLERENS 24 Jan 2023 24 Jan 2024 Ms Egle KARECKAITE 12 Feb 2022 11 Feb 2023 Patrick CLERENS 21 Jan 2022 21 Jan 2023 Patrick CLERENS 12 Feb 2021 21 Jan 2022 Patrick CLERENS 19 Dec 2019 19 Dec 2020 Patrick CLERENS 30 Nov 2018 30 Nov 2019 Patrick CLERENS 03 Jan 2018 30 Nov 2018 Patrick CLERENS 20 Oct 2016 19 Oct 2017 Ms Julia Joannou 09 Apr 2016 09 Apr 2017 Patrick CLERENS 21 Oct 2015 15 Oct 2016 Mr Peter-Alexander SONDERMANN 08 Nov 2014 06 Nov 2015 Patrick CLERENS 30 Oct 2014 21 Oct 2015 Patrick CLERENS 19 Nov 2013 30 Oct 2014 Mr Peter-Alexander SONDERMANN 19 Nov 2013 08 Nov 2014 Patrick CLERENS 29 Jan 2013 19 Nov 2013 Mr Peter-Alexander SONDERMANN 21 Dec 2012 19 Nov 2013 Mr Peter-Alexander SONDERMANN 11 Dec 2012 21 Dec 2012 Patrick CLERENS 24 Apr 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mr Peter-Alexander SONDERMANN 17 Jan 2012 11 Dec 2012 Complementary Information
See previous section on staff dedicated to association management
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Professional consultancies
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Advances interests of their clients
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
820,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Clients for closed financial year
Clients list
Name Proposal Amount european association for storage of energy The European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) is the voice of the energy storage community, actively promoting the use of energy storage in Europe and worldwide. EASE actively supports the deployment of energy storage as an indispensable instrument within the framework of the European energy and climate policy to deliver services to, and improve the flexibility of, the European energy system. EASE seeks to build a European platform for sharing and disseminating energy storage-related information. EASE supports the transition towards a sustainable, flexible and stable energy system in Europe 700,000€ - 799,999€ flow batteries europe Flow Batteries Europe bring together stakeholders across the entire flow battery value chain. Our vision is to accelerate the decarbonisation in Europe and globally by increasing the deployment of energy storage and flexibility solutions through flow battery applications. Our missions is to gather interested stakeholders to advance the research and development as well as the commercialisation and deployment of flow batteries in Europe. To achieve this, the Flow Batteries Europe will engage and promote flow batteries with European and other relevant organisations. 50,000€ - 99,999€ earpa EARPA is the association of automotive R&D organisations. It brings together the most prominent independent R&D providers in the automotive sector throughout Europe. Its membership counts at present 50 members ranging from large and small commercial organisations to national institutes and universities. EARPA, as the platform of automotive researchers, aims at actively contributing to the European Research Area and the future EU Framework Programmes. In this task, EARPA seeks a close cooperation with the automotive industry, the automotive suppliers, the oil industry as well as the European Institutions and the EU Member States. 50,000€ - 99,999€ bepa BEPA represents the battery R&I community. Most activities are guided by the MoU signed between BEPA and the European Commission. The main policy file of interest outside the scope of this MoU is the development of the new Framework Programme for research ("FP10"). 10,000€ - 24,999€ eswet ESWET is the association representing the European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology. Its main purpose is to promote the development and dissemination of Waste-to-Energy, and its role as a complementary tool to recycling in landfill diversion. ESWET seeks to raise awareness of the positive implications of the technology both for the environment and the production of energy. The main 2021 policy files of ESWET included the Renewable Energy Directive, the EU ETS & Effort Sharing Regulation, the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive, the “EU Taxonomy” Regulation and the Waste Shipment Regulation. 10,000€ - 24,999€ Clients for current financial year
Clients list
Name eswet EASE ESC flow batteries europe earpa Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
Clerens Consulting currently manages EU Associations, each of which is individually registered in the Transparency Register, where details about their activities, staff and budget figures are available. Clerens Consulting's staff actions for each association are reported in the relevant register entries.
CC’s own activities are purely prospective and unrewarded, such as analysing funding opportunities or finding new clients, activities which are not covered by the register but that we wish to mention.
Meetings
Meetings
None declared