Overview
Lobbying Costs
350,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
20
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Edison Spa (EDS)
EU Transparency Register
401111262-07 First registered on 25 Jun 2008
Goals / Remit
Edison (www.edison.it) is one of the oldest energy companies in Europe. It is a leader of the national energy market in Italy as well as being very active in the sector of electricity and gas in several European countries. Edison is involved in ambitious investments projects , in partnership with major stakeholders, reflecting its commitment to the establishment of a new way of generating energy. Edison is committed to several energy sources as well as being a part of several projects of highest strategic importance to the EU. As part of the EDF group, Edison plans to further develop this policy.
For more information please check www.edison.it or contact bruxelles@edison.itMain EU files targeted
Edison’s advocacy activities are only related to the field of energy. We provide our contributions to all the public consultations, we formulate position papers on specific subjects and we arrange meetings with the EU institutions. We are currently following several dossiers related to the energy union, gas infrastructure, electricity and gas market design and related energy and environmental policies.
Address
Head Office
Foro Buonaparte, 31
Milano 20121
ITALYEU Office
Avenue des Nerviens 3/2
Bruxelles 1040
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 May 2017
Name Start date End Date Giacomo SPINOLA MINISCALCHI ERIZZO 15 Apr 2024 15 Apr 2026 Luca Franza 15 Apr 2024 15 Apr 2026 Valerio Dalla Torre di Sanguinetto 10 Apr 2024 10 Apr 2026 Mariacristina Barassi Sabelli 15 Apr 2024 15 Apr 2026 Luca Franza 14 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Valerio Dalla Torre di Sanguinetto 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Giacomo SPINOLA MINISCALCHI ERIZZO 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Ms Mariacristina Barassi Sabelli 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Giacomo SPINOLA MINISCALCHI ERIZZO 28 Apr 2022 13 Apr 2023 Ms Mariacristina Barassi Sabelli 29 Apr 2022 13 Apr 2023 Valerio Dalla Torre di Sanguinetto 28 Apr 2022 13 Apr 2023 Giacomo SPINOLA MINISCALCHI ERIZZO 28 Apr 2022 06 Apr 2023 Luca Franza 26 Apr 2022 14 Apr 2023 Mr Matteo BERNABEI 16 Sep 2021 17 Sep 2022 Valeria Palmisano 12 Jun 2020 01 Jul 2021 Mr Matteo BERNABEI 12 Jun 2020 12 Jun 2021 Valeria Palmisano 15 Jun 2019 12 Jun 2020 Mr Matteo BERNABEI 15 Jun 2019 12 Jun 2020 Mr Jacopo CASADEI 31 Oct 2018 01 Mar 2019 Valeria Palmisano 14 Jun 2018 14 Jun 2019 Ms Mariacristina Barassi Sabelli 10 Oct 2017 10 Oct 2018 Ms Simona Goodwin 10 Oct 2017 10 Oct 2018 Valeria Palmisano 15 Jun 2017 14 Jun 2018 Ms Chiara Trovati 21 Feb 2017 06 Oct 2017 Ms Mariacristina Barassi Sabelli 27 May 2016 27 May 2017 Ms Simona Goodwin 26 May 2016 25 May 2017 Valeria Palmisano 04 May 2016 03 May 2017 Ms Carlotta Demofonti 04 May 2016 22 Feb 2017 Valeria Palmisano 27 May 2015 04 May 2016 Ms Mariacristina Barassi Sabelli 30 Jan 2014 30 Jan 2015 Valeria Palmisano 04 Feb 2014 01 Feb 2015 Mrs Mariacristina Barassi Sabelli 30 Jan 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Cosimo AVESANI 30 Jan 2014 30 Jan 2015 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Marco Margheri (SVP Public and EU Affairs)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Marc Benayoun (Chief Executive Officer)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Edison participates in various organizations of interest representation in Italy as well as in Europe. The sharing of information through the presence of Edison representatives in committees and working groups contributes to an informed internal debate.
On a purely informational basis, below are listed some of the most important organizations Edison is working closely with :
- Assoelettrica / UNEI / Eurelectric
- Confindustria / Businesseurope
- Eurogas
- GIE / GTE / GSE / GLE
- Efet
- Recs
- GII (Gruppo Iniziativa italiana)
Edison also participates in the activities of the Industry Advisory Panel of the Charter Energy Treaty.
For further information please check www.edison.it or contact bruxelles@edison.itMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
350,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
800,000 € (Source: see detail below (point d))
Other financial info
The Brussels office of Edison are completely integrated within the public and European Affairs departement of Edison SpA. The office is under the administrative direction of Edison SpA, headquartered in Buonaparte 31 - 20121 Milan. The numbers previously cited in option II correspond to the indicative value of the direct activities of the EU office of the society, calculated according to the criterions and the indications furnished in the Code of Conduct of the present Register. Associative costs are not included if there are not directly sustained by the operational unity and directly reported to the activities of establing relations with European institutions.
For more information please check www.edison.it or contact bruxelles@edison.it
Funding from EU institutions:
The above mentioned sum fo rgrants corresponds to the following:
800.000 € received by IGI Poseidon SA, (owned by Edison at 50%) as pre-financing in the framework of the CEF contribution for the development of the East Mediterranean Pipeline project
In addition, IGI Poseidon SA reimbursed 345.932,87 € to the European Commission to balance the final EEPR contribution to the Poseidon Pipeline (amounting to 5.654.067,13 €) with the 6.000.000 € pre-financing payed by the European Commission in 2011.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Edison sponsors only think tank events.
Other activities
Edison has been collaborating with the European institutions since many years, offering its experience as a leader in the energy market, for a more in depth elaboration of community legislation. For this purpose, Edison elaborates analysis, studies and positions which are shared with community institutions and stakeholders involved in the European debate.
Edison has also initated an ambitious investment plan in energy infrastructures, in the electricity sector as well as in the natural gas sector. Many aspects of these investments have implications linked to community law and in some cases are under the complete competency of the EU institutions. Edison’s Institutional Relations Department has the task of effectively and appropriately interacting to guarantee to the European commission and the institutions involved punctual and broad information on the evolution of the dossiers, as well as elaborating subjects that fall directly under community competency.
The Brussels office actively collaborates with the various stakeholders and representative organizations and interacts when necessary with community institutions also to represent the positions of the organizations.
For more information please go to www.edison.it or contact Bruxelles@edison.it- Meetings
Meetings
20 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 30 Jan 2024 Location Brussels Subject Nuclear energy, Italy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Attending - Thor-Sten Vertmann (Cabinet member)
- Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Jun 2023 Location Brussels Subject Hydrogen prospects and Puglia Green Valley project Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet member)
- Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject EastMed-Poseidon Project development status; Progress on Feasibility Report; Next Project planned steps Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Helena Hinto (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Mar 2022 Location Rome, Italy Subject Discussion on security of supply, prices, storages and the East Med pipeline. DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
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Date 11 Feb 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Preparation of cabinet participation at a World Energy Council Italy and Edison event. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Jan 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Introductory meeting, discussion on priorities in energy policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Thor-Sten Vertmann (Cabinet member)
- Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Jun 2019 Location Roma Subject Long Term Strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner)
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Date 01 Sep 2017 Location Cernobbio Subject Exchange of views on the Italian and euro zone economies and priorities for reform Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner)
- Simon O'Connor (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jul 2017 Location Brussels Subject Gas infrastructure Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Joachim Balke (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Energy situation in the Easter-Mediterrenean Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Bernd Biervert (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Apr 2016 Location Brussels Subject Gas Strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Bernd Biervert (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject Security of gas supply, renewables, electricity market design Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Bernd Biervert (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Sep 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Investment in Algeria Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Isaac Valero Ladron (Cabinet member)
- Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner)
- Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Mar 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Internal Energy market Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Cabinet member)
- Silvia Bartolini (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Jan 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Euroepan Energy policy and Edison's European gas operations & gas pipeline projects, The Greek power market, The Italian electricity market, in particular hydropower Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject The importance of the Juncker Investment plan for the energy sector Cabinet Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini Portfolio Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Attending - Arianna Vannini (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Jan 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject European Energy Policy priorities DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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Date 09 Dec 2014 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Introducing EDISON Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Cabinet member)
- Silvia Bartolini (Cabinet member)
- Joachim Balke (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Dec 2014 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Energy Union and Climate Action Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Silvia Bartolini (Cabinet member)
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