Kapsch

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

100,000€ - 199,999€

Financial year: Apr 2022 - Mar 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1 Fte (1)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

7

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Kapsch

    EU Transparency Register

    71160189926-80 First registered on 19 Oct 2012

    Goals / Remit

    Kapsch is one of Austria’s most successful technology corporations, specialized in the future-oriented market segments of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Kapsch is organized as a group company with the entities Kapsch TrafficCom and Kapsch BusinessCom. As a family-owned company headquartered in Vienna, Kapsch has been dedicated to the continuous development and implementation of new technologies for the benefit of its customers since 1892. With a wide range of innovative solutions and services, Kapsch makes a valuable contribution toward responsible approaches to a mobile and networked world. The companies of the Kapsch Group employ about 5,000 people at subsidiaries and branch offices around the world.

    Main EU files targeted

    Transport Policy, Digital Single Market, Environmental Policy, C-ITS Deployment Strategy, EETS, ITS Directive, Taxonomy

    Address

    Head Office
    Kapsch TrafficCom Am Europlatz, 2
    Vienna 1120
    AUSTRIA
    EU Office
    Kapsch TrafficCom Am Europlatz, 2
    Vienna 1120
    AUSTRIA

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    1

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Mar 2024

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Richard Lax 30 Sep 2023 27 Sep 2024
    Mr Richard Lax 05 Feb 2022 04 Feb 2023
    Mr Richard Lax 10 Feb 2021 10 Feb 2022
    Mr Richard Lax 07 Feb 2020 05 Feb 2021
    Mr Richard Lax 22 Jan 2019 22 Jan 2020
    Mr Richard Lax 13 Feb 2018 22 Jan 2019
    Mr Richard Lax 20 Mar 2017 13 Feb 2018
    Mr Richard Lax 02 May 2016 21 Mar 2017
    Mr Richard Lax 24 Jun 2015 03 May 2016
    Mr Richard Lax 29 Jul 2014 24 Jun 2015
    Mr Richard Lax 25 Sep 2013 29 Jul 2014
    Mr Richard Lax 23 Oct 2012 20 Oct 2013

    Complementary Information

    supported by Experts

    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

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    ERTICO, ASECAP, CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium, DSRC Interest Group

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Apr 2022 - Mar 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    100,000€ - 199,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant Horizon2020 60,000€

    Intermediaries for closed year

    NameAmount
    simply europe 25,000€ - 49,999€

    Intermediaries for current year

    Name
    simply europe

    Closed year Costs

    100,000€ - 199,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    European ITS Advisory Group#E02736#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2736 #Member #C#Industry#Intelligent Transport Systems#E01941#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=1941 #Not a member #C#Industry#Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS)#Commission expert group on electronic tolls #E03644#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3644 #Member #C#Industry

    Groups (European Parliament)

    Urban

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    7 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.

    • Date 09 Oct 2018 Location brussels
      Subject Mobility issues
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Silke Obst (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 09 Oct 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject C-ITS delegated act
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
    • Date 01 Feb 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Meeting with Mr Richard Lax
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Silke Obst (Cabinet member)
    • Date 12 Sep 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Car2Car Statement
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Friedrich-Nikolaus von Peter (Cabinet member)
    • Date 04 Feb 2016 Location Brussels, Belguim
      Subject Meeting Georg Kapsch, CEO of Kapsch Group
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Jocelyn Fajardo (Cabinet member)
      • Violeta Bulc (Commissioner)
    • Date 03 Feb 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject connected-automated driving
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
    • Date 19 Jan 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject IoT, SMEs, innovation
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
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