Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
10
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Association of the Electricity Transmission and Distribution Equipment and Services Industry (T&D Europe)
EU Transparency Register
90453504235-64 First registered on 23 Sep 2010
Goals / Remit
T&D Europe (www.tdeurope.eu) is the European association of the electricity transmission and distribution equipment and services industry. Its members are the European national associations representing the interests of the electricity transmission and distribution equipments manufacturing and derived solutions. The companies represented by T&D Europe account for a production worth over € 25 billion EUR, and employ over 200,000 people in Europe.
Main EU files targeted
Energy Policy, Industry Policy, Digital Agenda, Environment Policy, Research and Innovation Policy, Trade Policy, Climate Change Policy
Address
Head Office
Bluepoint Building
Boulevard Auguste Reyers, 80
Brussels 1030
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Apr 2019
Name Start date End Date Sara GHARSALLI 02 Sep 2023 01 Sep 2024 Mr Pierre Lucas 01 Feb 2013 01 Feb 2014 Complementary Information
The T&D Europe Secretariat consist of one full-time secretary general and 1 part time policy advisor, who are for part of their time involved in activities described under heading 9.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Diederik Peereboom (Secretary General)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Diederik Peereboom (Secretary General)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
T&D Europe maintains a close relationship with Orgalim, the European engineering industries federation, which manages its Secretariat and to some of which working groups T&D Europe's experts participate and contribute
T&D Europe is a founding member of the Industry Group on European Standardisation Strategy (INGRESS)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
13,475 € (Source: European Commission)
Other financial info
T&D Europe's overall expenses for 2018 is €396,295.71, entirely financed by a fee of its members and a EC subsidy for the participation in a programme.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Commission expert group on electricity interconnection targets#E03412 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3412 #Member #C#Consultation Forum according to Art. 23 of Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases#X03338 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3338 #Member #C#Smart Grids Task Force #E02892 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2892 #Member #C#EG3#Steering Committee#EG1#EG2
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
T&D Europe participates in EU projects Grid+ (completed in 2014), eHighway2050 (completed in 2015) and PROMOTiON (ongoing)
Other activities
T&D Europe essentially focuses on
a) Enterprise and industry (CE marking directives, Standards)
b) Climate Change (F-gases)
c) Energy (Energy Strategy, energy efficiency, smart grids, electricity policy, networks)
d) Research (Horizon 2020, SET-Plan)- Meetings
Meetings
10 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 26 Feb 2024 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Clean Transition Dialogue on EGD Infrastructures DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists - ChargeUp Europe
- European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
- currENT Enabling Network Technology throughout Europe E.E.I.G.
- European Committee for Standardization
- Carbon Capture & Storage Association
- Europacable
- Hydrogen Europe
- EDSO for Smart Grids
- Council of European Energy Regulators
- EU DSO Entity
- European Hydrogen Backbone
- SGI Europe
- smartEn Smart Energy Europe
- EPIA SolarPower Europe
- KIC InnoEnergy SE
- WindEurope
- Eurelectric aisbl
- European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity
- European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas
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Date 26 Feb 2024 Location Brussels Subject Clean Transition Dialogue on EGD Infrastructures Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Attending - Aleksandra Baranska (Cabinet member)
- Dino Toljan (Cabinet member)
- Renáta Goldírová (Cabinet member)
- Adam Romanowski (Cabinet member)
- Juraj Nociar (Cabinet member)
- Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists - EDSO for Smart Grids
- EPIA SolarPower Europe
- Eurelectric aisbl
- KIC InnoEnergy SE
- European Hydrogen Backbone
- Hydrogen Europe
- European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity
- SGI Europe
- ChargeUp Europe
- Council of European Energy Regulators
- Carbon Capture & Storage Association
- WindEurope
- smartEn Smart Energy Europe
- EU DSO Entity
- Europacable
- currENT Enabling Network Technology throughout Europe E.E.I.G.
- European Committee for Standardization
- European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
- European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas
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Date 06 Sep 2023 Location Brussels Subject High level dinner before the ENSTO-E grids event – discussion on the challenges for European networks and electrification. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Stefano Grassi (Cabinet member)
- Kadri Simson (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - Energias de Portugal
- Statnett SF
- Fingrid Oyj
- E.ON SE
- RTE Réseau de transport d'électricité
- NKT A/S
- IBERDROLA
- Associazione fra le società italiane per azioni
- Amprion GmbH
- Renewables Grid Initiative e.V.
- ENEL SpA
- TenneT Holding B.V.
- Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A.
- Siemens Energy AG
- PRYSMIAN GROUP
- Terna spa
- Hitachi Energy
- Redeia
- Eesti Energia Aktsiaselts
- European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity
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Date 26 Apr 2023 Location video-call Subject Net Zero Industry Act and role of grid technologies in the green transition Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
- Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet member)
- Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Sep 2021 Location Online Subject Implementation of the Green Deal in the energy sector and the scaling up of investments in clean, resilient, digital electricity system. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Kadri Simson (Commissioner)
- Thor-Sten Vertmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Feb 2021 Location Virtual Subject Sustainable Finance T&D Europe expressed support for the European Green Deal and the EU’s sustainable finance agenda. They would like manufacturing of electricity transmission & distribution equipment included in the taxonomy classification system. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Katherine Power (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Jul 2020 Location video conference (Brussels) Subject Speech on the European Green Deal at T&D Europe's Executive Committee Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Nov 2018 Location Brussels Subject Possible safeguards Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
- Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 16 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject Anti-dumping proceeding with regard to imports of GOES Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Energy Union, infrstructure, smart grids Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Christian Linder (Cabinet member)
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