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Profile of registrant

Dow Europe

Identification number in the register: 38235121060-73
Registration date: 05/02/09 11:31:41

The information on this organisation was last modified on 01/02/13 14:12:50
The date of the last annual update was 01/02/13 14:12:50


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: Dow Europe
Acronym: Dow
Legal status: GMBH
Website address: http://www.dow.com

Sections

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

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mr  Geoffery Merszei
Position: Executive Vice President of the Dow Chemical Company

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mr  Russel Mills
Position: Vice President EU Government Affairs

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 3 Bachtobelstrasse 
Horgen 8810
SWITZERLAND
Telephone number: (+41) 447282118
Fax number: (+) 
Other contact information: Dow Brussels Office of EU Government Affairs and Public Policy
Avenue de Cortenbergh 52
B - 1000 Brussels
Phone: +32 2 738 7010

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: About Dow:
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company connects chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, renewable energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture. In 2012, Dow had annual sales of $57 billion and employed approximately 54,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 188 sites in 36 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at www.dow.com.

About Dow Europe:
As one of Dow’s four major geographic regions, Europe, with sales of approx $21 billion (EMEA 2011) has long been a significant contributor to the Company’s global success. Since its European launch in 1952, the region provides the Company with ever-more opportunities for strategic growth as Dow pursues its vision to be the most profitable and respected science-driven chemical company in the world. Dow in EMEA has 13,500 employees - a quarter of the Company’s global workforce. Dow is present in 20 countries with more than 60 manufacturing locations and 30 commercial offices. With more than 5.000 different products and service globally, ninety percent of the products Dow sells in Europe are made in Europe.
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • national
  • European
  • global

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

Number of persons: 10
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

First name Surname Start Date End Date
Filip Cnudde 05/02/13 01/02/14
Christina von Westernhagen 05/02/13 01/02/14
Marta Varela-Lopez 05/02/13 01/02/14

Activities

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


Policies related to Chemicals and Health, Energy and Climate Change, Environment, Sustainable Development, EU 2020 Strategy, Security, Transportation and Logistics, Trade, Crop Protection and Biotechnology.

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

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Agriculture and Rural Development
  • Competition
  • Consumer Affairs
  • Customs
  • Employment and Social Affairs
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • General and Institutional Affairs
  • Internal Market
  • Justice and Fundamental Rights
  • Trade
  • Trans-European Networks
  • Transport

Networking

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




American European Community Association (AECA)
American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU)
Corporate Social Responsibility Europe (CSR Europe)
European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and some of its sector groups
Europa Bio
European Justice Forum (EJF)
European Partners for the Environment (EPE)
European Policy Center (EPC)
EuroChlor
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA)
European Seeds Association (ESA)
Freshfel Europe
Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN)
Plastics Europe

Financial data

Financial year: 01/2010 - 12/2010
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: 800000  € - 900000  €
Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
Procurement: 0 €
Grants: 0 €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:


Code of conduct

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