Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
12.4 Fte (50)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
28
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V. (NABU)
EU Transparency Register
0285583802-96 First registered on 17 Dec 2008
Goals / Remit
NABU is the German partner of BirdLife Europe / BirdLife International. NABU, the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, was founded already in 1899. Today, with more than 900.000 members and supporters, it is the oldest and largest nature conservation NGO in Germany. NABU is a registered charity under German law (eingetragener, gemeinnütziger Verein). Due to the federal structure of Germany with shared responsibilities for nature conservation between the federal government and the governments of the 16 Federal States (Laender), NABU has 15 regional branches, and more than 2.000 local groups. In Bavaria, NABU is represented by the “Landesbund fuer Vogelschutz” (LBV, www.lbv.de).
Main EU files targeted
Concretely, NABU is inter alia focusing on implementing the EU Green Deal, with its EU Biodiversity Strategy, EU Farm to Fork Strategy, etc. NABU is also pushing for implementation of existing EU legislation such as the Birds and the Habitats Directive. In general, NABU focuses on the conservation of biodiversity. Following the NABU motto “For humans and nature”, especially the implementation of EU environmental law, are major topics for NABU and its groups. Besides nature conservation, NABU also works on agriculture and fisheries, climate and energy, air quality, circular economy, and sustainable transport.
Address
Head Office
Charitestraße, 3
Berlin 10117
GERMANYEU Office
c/o BirdLife Europe, c/o Hive5Cours Saint-Michel 30B
Brüssel 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
50
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 75% 3 50% 2 25% 13 10% 29 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
12.4
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 Lukas TRAUP 07 Oct 2024 06 Oct 2025 Raphael WEYLAND 01 Oct 2024 30 Sep 2025 Lukas TRAUP 20 Sep 2023 19 Sep 2024 Carla FREUND 02 Jun 2023 01 Jun 2024 Raphael WEYLAND 17 Oct 2023 04 Oct 2024 Raphael WEYLAND 19 Oct 2022 17 Oct 2023 Mr Matti GURRECK 21 Jul 2022 21 Jul 2023 Mr Gurreck MATTI 21 Jul 2022 26 Jul 2022 Carla FREUND 07 Oct 2021 07 Oct 2022 Raphael WEYLAND 06 Oct 2021 06 Oct 2022 Mr Andre PRESCHER 24 Sep 2021 01 Nov 2021 Mr Andre PRESCHER 07 Aug 2020 28 Aug 2021 Verena BAX 28 Feb 2020 27 Feb 2021 Mr Raphael Weyland, Dr. jur. 29 Aug 2019 29 Aug 2020 Mr Sebastian STRUMANN 27 Aug 2019 27 Aug 2020 Mr Andre PRESCHER 20 Aug 2019 07 Aug 2020 Mr Raphael Weyland, Dr. jur. 30 Aug 2018 29 Aug 2019 Mr Andre PRESCHER 30 Aug 2018 20 Aug 2019 Mr Raphael Weyland, Dr. jur. 20 Sep 2017 30 Aug 2018 Mr Andre PRESCHER 20 Sep 2017 30 Aug 2018 Mr Claus Mayr 30 Sep 2016 01 Sep 2017 Mr Raphael Weyland, Dr. jur. 30 Sep 2016 01 Sep 2017 Mr Claus Mayr 01 Aug 2015 30 Jul 2016 Mr Raphael Weyland, Dr. jur. 01 Aug 2015 30 Jul 2016 Mr Claus Mayr 06 Mar 2013 05 Mar 2014 Complementary Information
NABU employs about 300 people, most of whom work in the Berlin office. In our Brussels office, there are 3 full time policy officers working on EU-policy.
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
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
NABU is an independent, democratic, grassroots organisation, and partner of BirdLife International. There is one BirdLife partner per country. BirdLife International has partners in all 27 EU member states. In Europe, there are 41, plus Israel, so in total 42 member organisations. Together they represent 1.8 million members (natural persons). For a complete list of all conservation organisations in Europe see:
http://www.birdlife.org/regional/europe/partnership.html
NABU is a member of, inter alia:
BirdLife International (NABU is the German partner), www.birdlife.org
European Environmental Bureau (EEB),
www.eeb.org
Climate Action Network (CAN), www.caneurope.org
Transport and Environment (T&E), www.transportenvironment.org
IUCN, www.iucn.org
Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR, umbrella organization of German environmental NGOs), www.dnr.de
Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung (FUE, network of German NGOs following the CBD-process), www.forum-ue.deMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
77,705,453€
Major funding types in closed year
Donations, EU funding, Member's contributions, Public funding
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Mitgliedsbeiträge 32,649,292€ Contribution aus nationalen Mitteln 5,640,983€ Contribution aus subnationalen Mitteln 729,889€ Grant LIFE 1,636,177€ Other financial info
NABU wird hauptsächlich durch Mitgliedsbeiträge seiner mehr als 900.000 Mitglieder und spenden finanziert. Diese beiden Kategorien machen ca. 60% unserer Einnahmen aus. Hinzu kommen 17,1% öffentliche Zuschüsse aus Deutschland und der EU. Durch Erbschaften konnten wir 10.7% unserer Einnahmen generieren. Die weiteren kleineren Einnahmequellen können Sie unserem Jahresbericht entnehmen (S. 42): https://www.nabu.de/imperia/md/content/nabude/nabu/220902-jahresbericht-2021.pdf.
Da es sich um eine Vielzahl von Einnahmequellen handelt, macht kein einzelner Beitrag mehr als 10% unseres Gesamtbudgets aus. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Biodiversity, hunting, countryside,Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development,Green new deal
Communication activities
Quarterly members magazine “Naturschutz heute”, monthly NABU-Newsletter on Environmental Policy, Policy papers and brochures on various topics covered by NABU, recent projects “Welcome Wolf”, “Restoration of the river Havel” and various others, all over the country.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
28 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 07 Nov 2023 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Environmental policies DG Environment Attending - Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General)
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Date 07 Jul 2022 Location Brussels Subject Enforcement of existing EU (environmental) law Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Carmen Preising (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 May 2022 Location Virtual Subject To discuss the RePower EU Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Elena Montani (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 May 2022 Location video-call Subject To discuss the RePower EU Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Nov 2021 Location Brussels Subject To discuss the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Barbara GLOWACKA (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Oct 2021 Location Online Subject CAP programming and biodiversity protection in DE Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
- Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)
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Date 20 Jul 2021 Location videoconference (Brussels) Subject Bioenergy Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
- Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Apr 2021 Location Brussels - videoconference Subject Foreseen review of the renewable energy directive and use of forest biomass for energy production Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)
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Date 26 Mar 2021 Location video - conference Subject Taxonomy Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jan 2021 Location videocall Subject TEN-E Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Kitti Nyitrai (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Nov 2020 Location Brussels - video conference Subject Discussion on CAP Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Oct 2020 Location Videoconference call Subject Better Regulation Agenda Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Frauke Hoss (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Oct 2020 Location Videoconference call Subject Better Regulation Agenda Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight Attending - Frauke Hoss (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Oct 2020 Location Conference Call Subject Green deal, new MFF and Biodiversity Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn Portfolio Budget and Administration Attending - Kyriacos Charalambous (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Jul 2020 Location Brussels - videoconference Subject European Green Deal, recovery and action on nature Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)
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Date 19 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Sustainable food systems Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Sustainable food systems Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject One-in One-out; Better regulation; REFIT Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Frauke Hoss (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject One-in One-out; Better regulation; REFIT Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight Attending - Frauke Hoss (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Jan 2020 Location Brussels Subject biodiversity Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Jan 2020 Location Berlin, Germany Subject European Green Deal and the planed implementation of circular economy and biodiversity initiatives of the European Commission Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner)
- Ruben Alexander Schuster (Cabinet member)
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Date 31 Jan 2018 Location Bruxelles Subject LIFE, CAP DG Environment Attending - Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)
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Date 28 Jan 2018 Location Berlaymont Brussels Subject Multiannual Financial Framework Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Baudouin Baudru (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Follow-up Nature Action Plan and greening of the Common Agricultural Policy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Juergen Mueller (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject MFF Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 03 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Future of the CAP Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Nov 2016 Location Brussels Subject Preparation of panel discussion on the Future of the Cap Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Nature REFIT, Marine Protected Areas, Agriculture and Environment Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Juergen Mueller (Cabinet member)