Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.4 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA (KWS)
EU Transparency Register
106034119290-26 First registered on 22 Oct 2015
Goals / Remit
KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. More than 5,000 employees in over 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.8 billion in fiscal 2022/2023. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for over 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflowers. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development.
Main EU files targeted
Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC
REGULATION (EC) No 1107/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC
Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and
amending Regulation (EU) 2017/62
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the production and marketing of plant reproductive material in the Union, amending Regulations (EU) 2016/2031, 2017/625 and 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 2002/53/EC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC, 2002/57/EC, 2008/72/EC and 2008/90/EC (Regulation on plant reproductive material)
Horizon programmeAddress
Head Office
Grimsehlstr. 31
Einbeck 37574
GERMANYEU Office
Grimsehlstr. 31
Einbeck 37574
GERMANYWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 10% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.4
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Gunnar Felix Dr. Büchting 12 Sep 2024 11 Sep 2025 Alessia Mariagrazia Canova Cogliandro 12 Sep 2024 11 Sep 2025 Felix BÜCHTING 21 Sep 2023 21 Sep 2024 Alessia COGLIANDRO 20 Sep 2023 21 Sep 2024 Mr Hagen DUENBOSTEL 20 Sep 2022 20 Sep 2023 Alessia COGLIANDRO 20 Sep 2022 20 Sep 2023 Mr Hagen DUENBOSTEL 21 Oct 2021 20 Sep 2022 Alessia COGLIANDRO 28 Sep 2021 20 Sep 2022 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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
www.euroseeds.org;
www.plantetp.org;Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
We participated to the following EU projects and receveid funds for research puporses. Those amounts are NOT used for any activities within the scope of the Transparency Register.
• 2022: ROOT2RES (111.45 euro) & EIC project - Triparental Plants (3PaTec) (323.342 euro)
• 2024: Legume Generation EU Horizon Europe (71.836 euro)
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Rural, mountainous and remote areas (RUMRA) and smart villages
Communication activities
KWS in principle accompanies all of its political initiatives, objectives and actions also with communication and public relations. Over the past years this included engagement with the media on innovation and science in plant breeding and on agricultural practices, often in cooperation with or in support of our main associations.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 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 Oct 2022 Location Brussels Subject To discuss the contribution of innovative plant breeding to food security and sustainability to achieve the green deal objectives Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
- Joanna Stawowy (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 27 Jun 2016 Location Brussels Subject New breeding techniques, innovation in seeds Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 08 Jan 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject New breeding techniques in plant breeding Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Martin Selmayr (Cabinet member)