Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.75 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
8
High-level Commission meetings
23
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
YARA BELGIUM S.A. (YARA BELGIUM S.A.)
EU Transparency Register
68208004617-79 First registered on 26 Nov 2010
Goals / Remit
Yara grows knowledge to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet. Supporting our vision of a world
without hunger and a planet respected, we pursue a strategy of sustainable value growth, promoting
climate-friendly crop nutrition and zero-emission energy solutions. Yara’s ambition is focused on growing a nature
positive food future that creates value for our customers, shareholders and society at large and delivers a more
sustainable food value chain. To achieve our ambition, we have taken the lead in developing digital farming tools for precision farming, and work closely with partners throughout the food value chain to improve the efficiency and sustainability of food production. Through our focus on clean ammonia production, we aim to enable the hydrogen economy, driving a green transition of shipping, fertilizer production and other energy intensive industries.
Founded in 1905 to solve the emerging famine in Europe, Yara has established a unique position as (...)Main EU files targeted
all policies, initiatives and files concerning :
- industry and trade in particular free trade agreements
- energy policies in particular relating to natural gas and electricity market(s)
- agricultural policies in particular relating to CAP and different methods of farming, precision farming, digitization,
- decarbonization of industry via renewable hydrogen & CCS
- soil health, nutrient management etc...
- sustainable finance, financial taxonomy & sustainable investment
- EU funding
- health, safety, environment, quality for industrial processes incl. industrial emissions
- fertilizer & chemical product legislation
- sustainable food systems
- environment and climate change relating policies in particular on Green Deal, on quality of water and air and global warming. Also other policies relating to industry's role in environmental and climate related challenges.Address
Head Office
ManhattanBolwerklaan 21, bus 4
Brussels 1210
BELGIUMEU Office
ManhattanBolwerklaan 21, bus 4
Brussels 1210
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 75% 1 50% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
8 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 18 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Tiffanie STEPHANI 21 Oct 2024 20 Oct 2025 Aino Elma Amanda Vilkki 23 Oct 2024 22 Oct 2025 Ingrid Gran NORDHEIM 22 Oct 2024 21 Oct 2025 Luc HAUSTERMANS 12 Sep 2024 11 Sep 2025 Isabella ERMILI 30 Jul 2024 29 Jul 2025 Federico FACCHIN 12 Jun 2024 11 Jun 2025 Nenad PERIC 27 May 2024 26 May 2026 NIKOLAOS KYRIAKIDIS 27 May 2024 26 May 2026 Ingrid Gran NORDHEIM 27 Sep 2023 27 Sep 2024 Luc HAUSTERMANS 04 Nov 2023 18 Sep 2024 Federico FACCHIN 20 Sep 2023 16 Aug 2024 Tiffanie STEPHANI 04 May 2023 04 May 2024 Nenad PERIC 28 Apr 2023 27 Apr 2024 Isabella ERMILI 11 May 2023 11 May 2024 Luc HAUSTERMANS 09 Nov 2022 04 Nov 2023 Nenad PERIC 07 May 2022 28 Apr 2023 Tiffanie STEPHANI 05 May 2022 04 May 2023 Isabella ERMILI 27 Apr 2022 27 Apr 2023 Luc HAUSTERMANS 12 Oct 2021 12 Oct 2022 Mr Wilhelmus SLOOT 24 Oct 2019 24 Oct 2020 Mr JEAN PAUL BEENS 22 Oct 2019 22 Oct 2020 Mr JEAN PAUL BEENS 06 Oct 2018 05 Oct 2019 Mr JEAN PAUL BEENS 10 Oct 2017 06 Oct 2018 Mr JEAN PAUL BEENS 10 Oct 2016 07 Oct 2017 Mr JEAN PAUL BEENS 16 Jul 2015 13 Jul 2016 Mr Wilhelmus SLOOT 16 Jan 2012 01 Dec 2012 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
Yara is a member of Fertilizers Europe and of the International Fertilizers Association IFA
Yara is through its production/sales locations also member of the national fertilizer associations throughout the EU and abroad.
Yara is also a member of:
Cool Farm Alliance
CEFIC and its national chemical associations
European Biostimulant Industry Council
Hydrogen Europe
Zero Emissions Platform
IFIEC
Ecofi
European Food Forum
OP2B One Planet Business for Biodiversity
European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform
European Biogas AssociationMember 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 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount fti consulting belgium 400,000€ - 499,999€ logos bbe 300,000€ - 399,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name logos bbe fti consulting belgium Closed year Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Other financial info
third party spend listed above ; staff costs (also including analysis of policy files) ; memberships of major associations
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Standing Committee on Precursors#E03245#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3245 #OBSERVER #C#IndustryGas consuming industries' feedback on AggregateEU#E03865/3#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=104112 #MEMBER #C#Industry
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
https://www.yara.com/this-is-yara/sustainability/commitments-and-policies/our-opinions/
https://www.yara.com/crop-nutrition/sustainable-agriculture-in-europe
https://www.yara.com/sustainability/transforming-food-system/sustainable-agriculture-in-europe/fit-for-55/
https://www.yara.com/yara-clean-ammonia/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
23 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 06 Dec 2024 Location Brussels Subject Video-call - Exchange on CBAM DG Taxation and Customs Union Attending - Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General)
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Date 17 Oct 2024 Location Brussels Subject Discussion with Yara International CEO Svein Tore Holsether on decarbonization of fertilizers, food & shipping. DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kerstin Jorna (Director-General)
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Date 23 May 2024 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Imports into the EU of Russian fertilizers, Export duties on Russian fertilizers, EU food security Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Attending - Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)
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Date 23 Apr 2024 Location Brussels Subject - Imports of Russian fertilizers - Food security Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Attending - Miriam Garcia Ferrer (Cabinet member)
- Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Apr 2024 Location Brussels Subject Meeting WEF CEO Action Group for the European Green Deal Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Attending - Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President)
- Virginie Battu-henriksson (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Feb 2024 Location Sluiskil Subject The Industrial Carbon Management Strategy and measures to foster a market for low-carbon product; Reaching the RED III green hydrogen target in industry Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra Attending - Daniel Mes (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Nov 2023 Location Brussels Subject CO2-free shipping fuels and port infrastructure Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Roxana Lesovici (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Oct 2023 Location Brussels Subject Presentation of YARA current projects in Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Ruud Kempener (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Apr 2023 Location Brussels Subject Future EU hydrogen market and the EU hydrogen bank Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
- Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jan 2023 Location Davos Subject EU tackling soil pollution and upcoming EU Healthy Soils Proposal Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Simonas ŠATŪNAS (Cabinet member)
- Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner)
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Date 02 Dec 2022 Location Brussels Subject Workshop on the transition towards 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 23 Nov 2022 Location Brussels, Berlaymont Subject Exchanging of views on topics: • Pathways to reduce nutrient losses in Europe • Soil health and the contribution of balanced plant nutrition • How Yara supports farmers in Ukraine in this time of war Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Agne Razmislaviciute-Palioniene (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Oct 2022 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Fertilizers production and market situation, in the EU and globally Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Oct 2022 Location online Subject Upcoming communication about fertilizers - EU Fertiliser strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Maciej Golubiewski (Cabinet member)
- Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)
- Andreas Schneider (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Oct 2022 Location online Subject Upcoming communication about fertilizers Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)
- Andreas Schneider (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Jul 2022 Location Belgium Subject Discussion on commitment to sustainable food production, manufacturing climate-friendly crop nutrition solutions and achieving zero-emission energy targets. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Peter Power (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jun 2022 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 13 May 2022 Location BERL Subject Delivering on the Farm to Fork objectives Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Joanna Stawowy (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Mar 2022 Location Brussels Subject Exchange of views on food security and fertilizers DG Agriculture and Rural Development Attending - Wolfgang Burtscher (Director-General)
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Date 03 Dec 2021 Location video-call Subject Discussion on investments into carbon removals with business representatives Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)
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Date 15 Jul 2021 Location Online Subject Bioecononmy /Sustainability of biomass Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jun 2021 Location video-call Subject Fit for 55 package Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Jun 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable of the Clean Hydrogen Alliance: 3rd meeting of the co-chairs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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