Overview
Lobbying Costs
625,000€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
8.75 Fte (13)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
5
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
CNC – Communications & Network Consulting AG (Kekst CNC)
EU Transparency Register
486438336738-84 First registered on 04 Dec 2019
Goals / Remit
Kekst CNC is a global strategic communications firm working with business and institutional leaders from around the world as they take advantage of opportunity and address challenge.
As institutions around the world compete for capital, business and talent, they are increasingly scrutinized for their strategic readiness and judged by how they respond to challenges – and communicate their actions. Investors demand that risk is being defined and managed appropriately and broadly that boards and management teams are ahead of the curve. Prospective employees want to understand and be part of a collective mission and purpose in which they can believe. Communities around the world require responsible partners on whom they can count.
We help global business and institutional leaders address these challenges and opportunities. We partner with them to develop and execute the necessary integrated communications strategies to gain the confidence of key stakeholders in this era of acceler (...)Main EU files targeted
Kekst CNC follows EU policy developments for its clients across a wide number of policy areas. Last year we have been monitoring and working on the following Policy files:
• Biodiversity strategy
• CFP
• Circular Economy
• Circular Economy 2.0
• Competition
• Digital Services Act
• Digital Markets Act
• EU Sustainable Public Procurement
• Europe Beating Cancer
• Farm to Fork Strategy
• Fishery
• Food Contact Materials
• Forest strategy
• Gas Markets and Hydrogen package
• New European Green Deal
• Packaging Waste and Packaging Waste
• Plastics Strategy
• Public Service Obligations
• Renewable Energy Directive
• Single Use Plastic
• Sustainable Transport
• Taxonomy
• Waste DirectiveAddress
Head Office
Leopold-PalaisLeopoldstrasse 10
Munich 80802
GERMANYEU Office
Square de Meeus 23
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
13
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 9 50% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
8.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
5 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 22 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Pierre GRUSON 27 Sep 2024 27 Sep 2025 Adam WATERS 06 Sep 2024 05 Sep 2025 Elena AGAFONOVA 29 Jul 2024 29 Jul 2025 David Rodriguez Sanchez 03 Sep 2024 03 Sep 2025 Flore MOENS 05 Jul 2024 05 Jul 2025 Edoardo MANCINI 11 Jan 2024 04 Oct 2024 Andre MENDES 07 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Callum LAIDLAW 18 May 2023 18 May 2024 Matthew WILLIAMS 08 Sep 2023 07 Sep 2024 Elena AGAFONOVA 11 May 2023 11 May 2024 Flore MOENS 11 May 2023 11 May 2024 Adam WATERS 08 Sep 2023 07 Sep 2024 Brigitta HARASZIN-ROZMAYER 07 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Theodoros BIRMPOUTSOUKIS 07 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Eda AYGEN 07 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Pierre GRUSON 10 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Laure BOTELLA 07 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Lars LINDBLAD 11 May 2023 11 May 2024 Ms Tereza CEJKOVA 11 May 2023 29 Oct 2023 Andre MENDES 04 Nov 2022 04 Nov 2023 Pierre GRUSON 26 Oct 2022 26 Oct 2023 Brigitta HARASZIN-ROZMAYER 21 Oct 2022 21 Oct 2023 Theodoros BIRMPOUTSOUKIS 21 Oct 2022 21 Oct 2023 Eda AYGEN 21 Oct 2022 21 Oct 2023 Laure BOTELLA 21 Oct 2022 21 Oct 2023 Mr Olivier HINNEKENS 21 Oct 2022 17 Mar 2023 Matthew WILLIAMS 26 Aug 2022 26 Aug 2023 Adam WATERS 26 Aug 2022 26 Aug 2023 Elena AGAFONOVA 01 Apr 2022 01 Apr 2023 Ms Tereza CEJKOVA 01 Apr 2022 01 Apr 2023 Flore MOENS 01 Apr 2022 01 Apr 2023 Andre MENDES 07 Oct 2021 07 Oct 2022 Theodoros BIRMPOUTSOUKIS 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Eda AYGEN 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Pierre GRUSON 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Laure BOTELLA 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Mr Olivier HINNEKENS 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Lars LINDBLAD 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Lars LINDBLAD 03 Jun 2020 03 Jun 2021 Maximilian BECK 03 Jun 2020 03 Jun 2021 Mr Olivier HINNEKENS 03 Jun 2020 03 Jun 2021 Laure BOTELLA 03 Jun 2020 03 Jun 2021 Ms Anna BECKER 03 Jun 2020 13 Jan 2021 Complementary Information
None declared
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
European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA)
American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU)
Belgian Public Affairs Community (BEPACT)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Advances interests of their clients
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
625,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Clients for closed financial year
Clients list
Name Proposal Amount shein group Digital Services Act (DSA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), AI Act, Waste Framework Directive (WFD), Textile Labelling Regulation, Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Packaging and Packaging Directive Regulation (PPWR), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Forced Labour Regulation, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), Revision of the Union Customs Code 100,000€ - 199,999€ arçelik a.ş. Ecodesign Directive, Energy labelling for household appliances, F-Gas Regulation, Waste Framework Directive, Circular Economy, General Product Safety Regulation 100,000€ - 199,999€ Amcor Circular Economy, Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, Waste Framework Directive, Waste Shipment Regulation, Food Contact Materials, Taxonomy Regulation, Policy Framework on biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics 100,000€ - 199,999€ booking.com b.v. Digital Markets Act 50,000€ - 99,999€ tetra pak sweden Packaging and Packaging Directive Regulation (PPWR) biodiversity and Green claim 50,000€ - 99,999€ Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Artificial Intelligence Act, CSAM Regulation, Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), Data Act, Digital Markets Act (DMA) 50,000€ - 99,999€ duck duck go, inc Digital Markets Act 50,000€ - 99,999€ kezzler cs Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Deforestation Regulation, Empowering Consumers for Green Transition, EU Textiles Strategy, Waste Framework Directive (WFD), Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), Detergents Regulation, Toys Safety Regulation, Green Claims Directive, Right to Repair Directive, Construction Product Regulation (CPR) 50,000€ - 99,999€ skw piesteritz Trade regulation 25,000€ - 49,999€ Charter of Trust Cyber Solidarity Act (CSA), Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), NIS2 Directive 25,000€ - 49,999€ gsma europe Digital Networks Act 25,000€ - 49,999€ Clients for current financial year
Clients list
Name duck duck go, inc. Amcor skw piesteritz Zoom Video Communications, Inc. booking.com b.v. Charter of Trust shein group kezzler cs arçelik a.ş. suse software solutions germany gmbh Evonik Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Kekst CNC regularly produces for its public affairs clients, updates on policy developments in Brussels and in the markets in which it is active.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 11 Jul 2024 Location video call Subject Communication Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra Attending - Maria Jans (Cabinet member)