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Profile of registrant

Umicore

Identification number in the register: 78662404191-38
Registration date: 17/09/10 10:11:35

The information on this organisation was last modified on 13/09/12 11:46:01
The date of the last annual update was 06/09/12 10:37:20


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: Umicore
Acronym:
Legal status: Limited Liability Company (NV/SA)
Website address: http://www.umicore.com/en/

Sections

Section: II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations
and more precisely: Companies & groups

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mr  Marc Grynberg
Position: CEO

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mr  Christian Hagelueken
Position: Director EU Government Affairs

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 31 Rue de Marais 
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM
Telephone number: (+32) 2 227 7111
Fax number: (+) 
Other contact information: 31, Rue de Marais, 1000 Brussels

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: Umicore is a materials technology group. It focuses on application areas where it knows its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference. Umicore generates approximately 50% of its revenues and spends approximately 80% of its R&D budget in the area of clean technology, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and precious metals recycling. Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life. The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base; it currently employs some 14,300 people.
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • European
  • global

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 6
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

No accredited persons

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:


- European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials
- Commission proposal 8th Framework Programme
- Recast of WEEE Directive
- Battery Directive
- Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe
- Communication on the Raw Materials Initiative
- Key Enabling Technologies
- Communication on Renewable energy: a major player in the European energy market

Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Energy
  • Enterprise
  • Environment
  • General and Institutional Affairs
  • Research and Technology
  • Trade
  • Transport

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.




EUROMETAUX - European Non-Ferrous Metals Association

AGORIA – Belgian Federation for the Technology Industry

AECC - Association for Emission Control by Catalyst

RECHARGE - Association of Portable Rechargeable Batteries

EPIA - European Photovoltaic Industry Association

ERT - European Roundtable of Industrialists

TABD – Transatlantic Business Dialogue

WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Financial data

Financial year: 01/2011 - 12/2011
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: 300000  € - 350000  €
Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
Procurement: 0 €
Grants: 511,543 €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:


Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.