Overview
Lobbying Costs
550,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
STC-NESTRA (STC-NESTRA)
EU Transparency Register
909111626861-97 First registered on 21 Apr 2017
Goals / Remit
NESTRA is the acronym for “Netherlands Expert Group for Sustainable TRAnsport and Logistics” and is a member of the STC-Group. NESTRA provides high-level consultancy and applied research services in the field of sustainable transport and logistics. NESTRA aims on servicing public and private organisations on national and international level such as Ministries of Transport, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, World Bank. NESTRA develops synergies and involves in their projects the expertise, capacities and the network available within the STC-Group organisation. Moreover, NESTRA has a number of strategic alliances with engineering firms and knowledge institutes. NESTRA was founded by mid 2014 by STC-Group in close cooperation with four experts on sustainable transport and logistics: René Meeuws, Harrie de Leijer, Sandra van Putten and Martin Quispel. These four experts are partners in the company STC-NESTRA. Before they started at NESTRA there were affiliated to NEA Transport research and training and Panteia. The experts within NESTRA have an extensive experience in the following activities:
◾Development and evaluation of policies and regulations (e.g. impact assessments) for the transport and logistics sector including public-private partnerships and institutional development. Within the area of transport and logistics, main areas of expertise of NESTRA are transport by inland waterways, multimodal transport and trade and transport facilitation
◾Dissemination, training, capacity development and technical assistance on the strengthening and enhanced professionalism on transport and logistics within and abroad Europe with a wide experience in countries such as China, Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia, Central Asia and Africa
◾Project management and coordination of international consortia working on assignments such as consultancy, research and development and training and matchmaking projects.Main EU files targeted
STC-NESTRA is mainly involved in the policies as regards Inland Waterway Transport NAIADES II communication and the TEN-T policy (Regulation 2013/1315)
Address
Head Office
Lloydstraat 300
Rotterdam 3002 JC
NETHERLANDS -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Richard van Liere (medewerker)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Sandra van Putten (Director)
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Categories
Category
I - Professional consultancies/law firms/self-employed consultants
Subcategory
Professional consultancies
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
550,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
30,000 € (Source: H2020 PROMINENT)
Other financial info
None declared
Declared lobby clients
Client Name Amount European Commission Directorate General Transport and Mobility 100,000€ - 199,999€ -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Experts group on Safe and Secure Parking Areas for Trucks#E03642 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3642 #Member #C#Industry experts#Inland Waterway Transport - Naiades II implementation expert group#E03497 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3497 #Member #C#Sub-Group on Good Navigation Status
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
STC-NESTRA is involved in the coordination and execution of various projects as well such as the Lot 2 about DINA/DMN, we recently finalised the Lot 3 study about “Good Navigation Status” and STC-NESTRA is leading the concluding workpackage in the PROMINENT H2020 project which deals with the challenge of greening the fleet and education/training.
Other activities
Staff working at STC-NESTRA was involved in various policy studies for the European Commission DG MOVE concerning Inland Waterway Transport. More specifically concerning NAIADES, staff now working at STC-NESTRA was involved in the study "Medium and Long Perspectives of Inland Waterway Transport in Europe (2011)" which provided the corner stone for the NAIADES II policy communication by the European Commission on IWT in Europe for the period 2014-2020.
Moreover, in 2012/2013, staff now working at STC-NESTRA provided technical assistance to the European Commission on the Greening of Inland Waterway Transport in the framework of the Impact Assessment on emission reduction for inland waterway vessels.
Furthermore, staff now working at STC-NESTRA was actively involved in the PLATINA I and PLATINA II framework projects addressing several topics addressed under NAIADES such as market structure, market observation, infrastructure, greening and innovation.
Moreover, staff also has experience in research and consultancy in the Railway sector, notably the Rail Freight corridors.
Meetings
Meetings
None declared