Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.95 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Verkor
EU Transparency Register
459816748143-09 First registered on 18 Nov 2022
Goals / Remit
Founded in 2020, Verkor’s mission is to increase the manufacture of low carbon batteries to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles and make Europe a key manufacturer of sustainable batteries.
Backed by major shareholders EIT InnoEnergy, Groupe IDEC, Schneider Electric, Capgemini, Renault Group, EQT Ventures, Arkema, Tokai COBEX, Demeter FMET, Plastic Omnium and Sibanye-Stillwater, Verkor has been mandated to accelerate the large-scale industrialisation of batteries in Europe, and roll out intelligent and sustainable manufacturing processes as part of the first French Gigafactory.Main EU files targeted
- Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL concerning batteries and waste batteries, repealing Directive 2006/66/EC and amending Regulation (EU) No 2019/1020
- European Parliament resolution of 24 November 2021 on a European strategy for critical raw materials (2021/2011(INI))
- Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union Cases where the Commission raises no objections
- European Sovereignty Fund
- EU State aid framework
- RePowerEU
- EU Energy Market
- EU Trade policyAddress
Head Office
2 rue Charles Berthier
Grenoble 38000 - 38000
FRANCEEU Office
2 rue Charles Berthier
Grenoble 38000 - 38000
FRANCEWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 3 10% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.95
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
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
- Upcell Alliance
- Recharge
- CARA
- Convention des entreprises pour le Climat
- Comité Stratégique de Filière Nouveaux Systèmes Energétiques
- European Battery Alliance
- France Digitale
- iDEE
- French Tech 120
- Mobil'is
- PEFCR
- Think tank Zenon Research
- Udimec
- UnidenMember 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
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant EIT InnoEnergy 1,500,000€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant EIT InnoEnergy 1,500,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount fleishmannhillard 25,000€ - 49,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name fleishmanhillard fleishmannhillard Closed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
- Position paper on the inclusion of battery manufacturing scraps as a source of recycled materials
- Participation to the PEFCR through Recharge
- Participation to the European Battery Alliance
- Participation to InnoEnergy events (TBB)Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
5 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 22 Feb 2024 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Energy market DG Energy Attending - Ditte Juul Jørgensen (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists - KIC InnoEnergy SE
- Atlantic SFDT
- SOLiTHOR
- Skeleton Technologies OÜ
- Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Siemens Energy AG
- Reverion
- Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation
- Carbon Capture & Storage Association
- BUSINESSEUROPE
- ENEL SpA
- ecop Technologies GmbH
- GravitHy
- Black Semiconductor GmbH
- Fastned BV
- European Association of Electrical Contractors
- ETIP Zero Emissions Platform
- Tree Energy Solutions GmbH
- EPIA SolarPower Europe
- ENGIE
- European Association for Storage of Energy
- Vaillant GmbH
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Date 22 Feb 2024 Location Brussels Subject Clean Transition Dialogue on Clean Technologies Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Attending - Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President)
- Aleksandra Baranska (Cabinet member)
- Adam Romanowski (Cabinet member)
- Renáta Goldírová (Cabinet member)
- Sid-ahmed Kamil Talbi (Cabinet member)
- Juraj Nociar (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - ETIP Zero Emissions Platform
- Black Semiconductor GmbH
- SOLiTHOR
- European Association of Electrical Contractors
- EPIA SolarPower Europe
- BUSINESSEUROPE
- Skeleton Technologies OÜ
- KIC InnoEnergy SE
- ENEL SpA
- SMEunited aisbl
- Atlantic SFDT
- Vaillant GmbH
- Fastned BV
- Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation
- Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- GravitHy
- Tree Energy Solutions GmbH
- Siemens Energy AG
- ecop Technologies GmbH
- Reverion
- ENGIE
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Date 24 May 2023 Location Brussels Subject Exchange on the European competitiveness in battery production and access to CRM Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Dimitri Lorenzani (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 May 2023 Location Brussels Subject Net Zero industry act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Joan Canton (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 May 2023 Location Brussels Subject Exchange on the European competitiveness in battery production and access to CRM Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight Attending - Dimitri Lorenzani (Cabinet member)
- Meetings