Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
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High-level Commission meetings
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Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
3R-BioPhosphate Ltd. (3R)
EU Transparency Register
239501011544-78 First registered on 11 Jul 2013
Goals / Remit
3R-BioPhoshate Ltd. is a technology intensive deeptech company playing a leading role in circular economical zero emission pyrolysis technology RTD, science/technology development, industrial engineering, and operations for recycling, upcycling and reuse of agri/food industrial by-product streams, concentrated phosphorus recovery, bio-phosphate production and applications. The company was established as a Swedish-Hungarian joint venture in 1989 with the ALSTOM subsidy Lang Machine Works (since 1870) and became an independent family owned company in 2001. Since 2002 the company has coordinated multiple large international research and development programs in the specific field of agri/food waste upcycling and economical recovery of phosphorus. Edward Someus is the original source and inventor of the “3R” Recycle-Recover-Reuse zero emission advanced pyrolysis technology, which has been developed specifically for animal by-product processing and Phosphorus recovery and reuse.
Main EU files targeted
HIGH AGRONOMIC EFFICIENT PHOSPHORUS RECOVERY - BIOPHOSHATE:
The BioPhosphate is a recovered and economically high nutrient density (up to 36% P2O2 content) biofertiliser and adsorbent product for less cost, which is aiming organic horticultural, urban agricultural and water treatment applications in economical industrial scale. The commercial implementation of ABC innovation is linked to EU policy objectives: Circular Economy action plan, Fertilising Products Regulation EU 1009/2019, Green Deal, Critical Raw Materials EU2017/490 to replace the Cadmium and Uranium contaminated chemosynthetic mineral phosphate and other sustainability programmes. The aim is to secure reliable and undistorted access to raw materials is increasingly becoming an important factor for the EU’s competitiveness and, hence, crucial to the success of the Lisbon Partnership for growth and jobs. The phosphate rocks are listed on the CRMs list (COM (2017) 490) and Phosphorus is at the centre of Commission's actions to improve its sustainable use. Phosphate rock CRM is crucial to Europe’s security of food supply, economy and essential to maintaining and improving our quality of life and "there is a high supply risk due to concentrated production from three main countries, though it is close to the supply risk threshold. Corporate concentration for this material appears relatively high compared to other materials, rising over the past five years. The economic importance is moderately high, exceeding the criticality threshold. There is no recycled input and substitution is impossible in its main application as an input to fertilisers and other chemicals." (Report on critical raw materials for the EU, May 2014, DG ENTR). ABC is recovered phosphorus is a renewable fertilizer source that can substitute the increasingly scare mineral phosphates. The Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe – COM (2011) 571 – is setting up a milestone by 2020 that “incentives to healthier and more sustainable food production and consumption will be widespread and will have driven a 20% reduction in the food chain's resource inputs”. Consultative Communication on the Sustainable Use of Phosphorus – COM (2013) 517 - states that “greater recycling and use of organic phosphorus where it is needed could stabilise the amounts of mined phosphate required and mitigate the soil contamination and water pollution issues. This will then put us on track to close the phosphorus cycle in the long term, when the physical limitations of the resource will become increasingly important.” Estimates suggest that through resource efficiency, global fertilizer phosphorus use from primary sources can be reduced by 18%, compared to currently envisaged policies (COM (2011) 571 final).( n)By recycling and recovery of phosphorus from animal by-products and closing phosphorus cycle the ABC proposal is contributing to the implementation of EU “circular economy package” for turning Europe into more circular economy and boosting recycling and preventing the loss of valuable products and move us towards zero-waste. Towards a circular economy: A zero waste programme for Europe – COM (2014)398 - is targeting to reduce food waste generation by 30% by 2025. The by-products from food production (P is mainly concentrated at bones) could recycle significant quantities of P, if properly managed.Address
Head Office
Biofarm Upcycling CentreBiofarm Road 58/3
Kajaszo 2472
HUNGARYEU Office
Biofarm Upcycling CentreBiofarm Road 58/3
Kajaszo 2472
HUNGARYWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Mr. Edward Someus: Swedish recycling and upcycling engineer. Born 1951; education: University of Lund in Sweden (1972 - 1978), graduated in 1978, M.Sc., Natural and Environmental Sciences. Core competence and specialization: PHOSPHORUS RECOVERY and BIOCHAR for agri applications with circular economy and resource recovery approach, Organic waste added value recycling and valorization by pyrolysis, carbon processing and reuse applications. Years of experience specifically in the fields of Phosphorus, nutrient/biochar recovery: 35.
https://www.biophosphate.net
https://www.3rbiofarm.com/Person in charge of EU relations
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Networking
Affiliation
3R-BioPhosphate Ltd www.3Ragrocarbon.com, led by Someus providing strong policy support to reinforce interaction between policies, initiatives/economic sectors for circular bioeconomy and EU Fertilisers Regulation rev biochar/Phosphorus recovery/compost cases.
Activities: S&T for P recovery, nutrient recycling, circular bioeconomy. Member in platforms/organisations:
• NUTRIMAN Nutrient Management and Nutrient Recovery Thematic Network (2018-2031) www.nutriman.net
• European Biochar Research Network (eBRN), Cost Action Biochar (TD1107), official national representative, cost.european-biochar.org (7 years)
• European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform, phosphorusplatform.eu (5 years)
• Sustainable Phosphorus Platform, forum/sustainablephosphorusplatform (1 year)
• TP organics Technology Platforms, tporganics.eu (5 years)
• Agroinnova, www.agroinnova.unito.it (12 years)
• BIOREFINE cluster, http://biorefine.eu, Interconnecting projects/people for nutrient cycling (3 years)
• Member/active participation in the Hungarian Biomass cluster; Competitive Vegetable production cluster; FAO, Global Soil Partnership (7 years)Member organisations
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
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Groups (European Parliament)
Green new deal,SME,Competitive European Industry: long-term and sustainable investment
Communication activities
The last projects are the H2020 NUTRIMAN RUR15 CSA long term programme between 2018-2031 (www.nutriman.net) and REFERTIL FP7 project (www.refertil.info), led by Someus providing strong policy support to reinforce interaction between policies, initiatives/economic/industrial sectors for circular bioeconomy and EU Fertilisers Regulation rev biochar/Phosphorus recovery/compost cases.
STRUBIAS WG member, for continuous policy support of thaT law harmonization of the biochar, recovered Phosphorus and ash products.
The aim of the REFERTIL was the improvement of comprehensive bio-waste transformation and nutrient recovery treatment processes. Contributed to enhance synergies between policies related to the recovered P fertilisers by policy support for the EU Commission, DG Grow for revision of the Fertiliser Regulation for innovative P-fertilizers.
Four policy support workshops organized in Brussels for presenting of the REFERTIL policy support activities. Biochar Policy support report prepared, concerning the absence of potential risks for the different environmental compartments, for the plants and for human health through the food chain resulting from the use of these materials in agricultural soils.
Key parts:
(1) DEVELOPMENT of S&T knowledge: REFERTIL biochar applied scientific research, industrial engineering, legal and economical aspects under market based commercial conditions.
(2) Biochar legal aspect overview and evaluation.
(3) Biochar economics sustainability evaluation under market based commercial conditions.
(4) Setting up quality and safety criteria for biochar (plant based, bone based, waste derived):
(a) Includes mandatory elements with limit values
(b) Declaration based elements for self validation
(c) Includes risk assessment (soil and groundwater)
(5) Development of harmonized and standardized analytical measurements for determination of the physic-chemical properties, potentially toxic element content and organic pollutants in the biochar materials.
(6) Regular meeting with the Commission (DG Grow), public consultation with international biochar vendors and stakeholders.
Development of Refertil harmonized and standardized biochar analytical measurements:
(1) To determine quality & safety performance of biochar, internationally accredited methods and standards are needed.
(2) The accreditation of the analytical activities related to the REFERTIL project was an important step.
(3) Supporting the legal standardization and mandatory permit process of biochar industrial production.
(4) Most of the standards selected for biochar qualification were chosen from among currently valid CEN/ISO standards.
(5) Biochar is a new product, for a number of parameters it was necessary to adopt soil or waste analytical methods, which were validated to assess their analytical performance.
The REFERTIL also demonstrated official and accredited biochar Authority permit cases according to the EU regulations, for large industrial pyrolysis installation, operations, manufacturing and applications for commercial purposes, such as:
(1) Industrial scale pyrolysis plant installation and operation permit number: FES/01/0851-33/2015 (Issuing Authority Industrial Safety Inspection and ten other advising Authorities).
(2) ABC Animal Bone Char BioPhosphate product horticultural application MS permit number: 6300/2407-2/2020. EU permit application is under progress for EU 2019/1009. EU REACH full capacity certified. above 1000 t/y.
https//www.biophosphate.net
https://www.3rbiofarm.com/Other activities
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Meetings
Meetings
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