European Crop Care Association

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

200,000€ - 299,999€

Financial year: Jul 2023 - Jun 2024

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

2 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

2

High-level Commission meetings

0

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Crop Care Association   (ECCA)

    EU Transparency Register

    059443622722-41 First registered on 18 Jul 2016

    Goals / Remit

    The associations goals are:
    - to inform its members about legislation and regulation in the EU and its Member States affecting their business;
    - to research into common solutions of any legal, financial, scientific and technical issues caused by community or national legislation or regulation, with the intention to improve or develop the members' economic activities;
    - to represent its members in all occurring situations towards the European Institutions and Memberstates;
    - to be the single point of contact of its members for regulatory authorities at any level with regard to the placing on the market of substances and products;
    - to organise meetings between its members, and/or with regulatory authorities, to distribute information, to develop, draft and distribute proposals on possible solutions for common problems to regulatory authorities, and to legally represent its members.

    Main EU files targeted

    Regulation 1107/2009 on the placing on the market of plant protection products, and all related files, such as:
    - Uniform Principles,
    - Labelling Requirements,
    - Data requirements for substances and products,
    - Basic substances,
    - Low Risk substances,
    - Candidates for substitution and Comparative Assessment,
    - Approval Criteria,
    - conditions and restrictions,
    - Endocrine Disruptors,
    - Developmental Neurotoxicity and Immunotoxicity,
    - Zonal Authorisations and worksharing,
    - Mutual Recognition of authorisations,
    - Harmonisation of Memberstate specific requirements,
    - Renewal of approvals and authorisations,
    - coformulants and adjuvants,
    - safeners and synergists,
    - Dossier formatting,
    - Data Protection,
    - Procedural and Technical Guidance covering the provisions of the Regulation

    Regulation 396/2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in food and feed;

    Directive 2009/128 on the sustainable use of pesticides;

    Directive 2009/127 on machinery for pesticide application;

    Regulation 1272/2008 on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP Regulation);

    Regulation 1907/2006 , REACH Regulation

    Regulation 649/2012 on import/export of dangerous chemicals, the PIC-Regulation;

    Regulation 178/2002 Foodlaw;

    Commission Regulation repealing Commission Regulation (EU) No 547/2011 of 8 June 2011
    regarding labelling requirements for plant protection products

    Legislation on:
    - Intellectual Property,
    - Public Access to information (incl. so-called Aarhus Regulation),
    - pesticides allowed in organic agriculture
    - fertilisers and biostimulants
    - soil and water policy

    Address

    Head Office
    Boulevard du Souverain 68/3
    Watermael-Boitsfort 1170
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Boulevard du Souverain 68/3
    Watermael-Boitsfort 1170
    BELGIUM

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1
    50%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    2

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 15 Jan 2025

    Name Start date End Date
    António Duarte 23 Oct 2024 22 Oct 2025
    PAOLO MARCHESINI 17 Sep 2024 16 Sep 2025

    Complementary Information

    The ECCA Secretariat consists of a General Manager (1 fte), a Regulatory Director (0.4 fte) and a Technical Director (0.4 fte)

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Members of ECCA are associate to national crop protection associations in selected Member States.

    Member organisations

    http://www.ecca-org.eu/members/

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jul 2023 - Jun 2024

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    200,000€ - 299,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    200,000€ - 299,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Advisory Group on Sustainability of Food Systems#E03832#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3832 #MEMBER #C#IndustryWorking Group on Plant Health#E03832/2#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=103432 #MEMBER #C#IndustryWorking Group on Seeds and Propagating Material#E03832/3#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=103433 #MEMBER #C#IndustryCommission's expert group on implementation of the Rotterdam Convention on international trade in certain dangerous chemicals#E00483#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=483 #OBSERVER #C#Academia/Research#IndustryAnimal Health Advisory Committee#E03832/1#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=103292 #MEMBER #C#Industry

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    - bee-health policy,
    - endocrine disruptor policy,
    - transparency initiative,
    - Farm to Fork Strategy
    - REFIT programme
    - Sustainable use of pesticides

    Other activities

    member of EFSA Stakeholder Platform

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    None declared

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