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A2A is an Italian multi-utility company focused on energy, water, and circular economy, aiming for net-zero emissions by 2040.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament) and Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. and

20 Jan 2026 · Automotive package

Meeting with Carlo Fidanza (Member of the European Parliament) and Associazione Industriali delle Carni e dei Salumi

20 Jan 2026 · legislative update

Meeting with Pierpaolo Settembri (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas)

11 Dec 2025 · Electric Vehicles and Autonomous Driving.

A2A Urges Diversified EU Taxonomy Thresholds for Water Utilities

5 Dec 2025
Topic — Review of technical rules for defining green investments under the EU taxonomy.
Message — Replace rigid energy thresholds and leakage indicators with more flexible, diversified criteria. Apply lower improvement targets to utilities that are already highly energy efficient. Expand the definition of renewable energy sites for wastewater treatment plants.123
Why — This ensures that highly efficient utilities maintain access to green investment capital.4
Impact — Regulators lose the simplicity of using uniform indicators like the leakage index.5
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Meeting with Paula Abreu Marques (Head of Unit Energy)

19 Nov 2025 · Presentation of A2A 12-y Strategic, EU energy policy post-2030

Meeting with Marcos Gonzalez Alvarez (Head of Unit Climate Action)

19 Nov 2025 · Discussion on the status of the CO2 emission standards and the ETS2.

Meeting with Luis Planas Herrera (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

18 Nov 2025 · Circular Economy

A2A urges mandatory recycling targets to boost industrial competitiveness

5 Nov 2025
Topic — New EU legislation aims to enhance economic security through circular production models.
Message — A2A demands binding recycled content requirements for a wide range of products. They request a mandatory twenty-five percent circular material reuse rate by 2030. The organization seeks harmonised rules for when waste becomes a new product.123
Why — These measures would create stable markets for A2A recycled materials and services.4
Impact — Virgin material producers lose their price advantage through new taxes and requirements.5
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Meeting with Isabella Tovaglieri (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Oct 2025 · Futuro delle politiche europee sull'acqua

Meeting with Alessandra Moretti (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Oct 2025 · Presentazione studio "L'Italia dei data center"

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Oct 2025 · Study on Data Centers

Meeting with Benedetta Scuderi (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Oct 2025 · Data Centers in Italy: Energy, Efficiency, and Sustainability for the Digital Transition

Meeting with Anna Panagopoulou (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas) and Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana and

17 Oct 2025 · Competitiveness in Italian Automotive Industry

Meeting with Isabella Tovaglieri (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Oct 2025 · Politiche energetiche

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Sept 2025 · Autonomous Vehicles

A2A urges flexible rules and longer timelines for energy reporting

12 Sept 2025
Topic — The Commission is setting rules for platforms that report wholesale energy market data.
Message — A2A argues that conflict rules should only apply to commercial platforms, not internal ones. They request a 12-month period to test new systems before they become mandatory. They also suggest making website publication optional for companies during platform outages.1234
Why — This would reduce regulatory costs for internal operations and prevent legal risks from errors.5
Impact — Transparency suffers if market data is scattered across individual websites instead of central platforms.6
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Energy firm A2A urges EU to slash reporting burdens

12 Sept 2025
Topic — The European Commission is updating rules for reporting wholesale energy market transactions.
Message — A2A proposes raising the reporting threshold to five terawatt-hours to exclude smaller firms. They also demand twelve months to adapt systems once technical rules are finalized.12
Why — Higher thresholds would allow the company to avoid costly administrative and IT requirements.34
Impact — Regulators would have less detailed data to monitor and detect market manipulation.5
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A2A calls for EU funding to protect critical utility infrastructure

1 Sept 2025
Topic — The consultation addresses the European climate resilience and risk management initiative.
Message — A2A requests that the EU provides sufficient financial support for private operators to develop climate adaptation solutions. They seek clear recognition and recovery of investment costs through network tariffs or public funding instruments. Finally, the group asks to officially recognize waste management as critical infrastructure.12
Why — A2A would secure predictable returns for its planned 22 billion euro investment strategy.3
Impact — Energy consumers could face higher utility bills if adaptation costs are passed through tariffs.4
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A2A urges EU to speed up electricity grid permitting

22 Jul 2025
Topic — The European Commission is consulting on measures to modernize and expand grid infrastructure.
Message — A2A requests that grid projects receive the same fast-track permitting and public interest status as renewables. They propose a one-stop-shop system and mandatory deadlines for permit approvals.123
Why — Streamlined rules and dedicated funding would reduce project delays and attract private capital.45
Impact — Local communities and environmental groups lose influence due to restricted veto powers and exemptions.67
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Meeting with Beatrice Coda (Head of Unit Research and Innovation)

3 Jul 2025 · Introduction to A2A activities and first contact point with the unit. Exchanges on view of the future of R&D for clean tech.

Meeting with Dario Nardella (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Jul 2025 · Priorities in the field of Industry, Research and Energy

Meeting with Carlo Fidanza (Member of the European Parliament) and CropLife Europe

2 Jul 2025 · legislative updates

Response to EU emissions trading system for maritime, aviation and stationary installations, and market stability reserve - review

1 Jul 2025

We support the Commissions ambition to reform the EU ETS as a key driver of Europes decarbonisation, and we welcome the opportunity to contribute to this consultation. In particular, we are committed to providing constructive input on the potential inclusion of waste-to-energy in the ETS. The EU ETS has proven to be an effective tool in driving shifts towards cleaner technologies, through market-based signals. However, it is not the appropriate instrument to decarbonize the waste sector, no cleaner alternatives exist for the treatment of residual waste. The ETS functions by encouraging a shift to lower-emission technologies, but this logic cannot be replicated where no such shift is possible. In fact, the inclusion of waste-to-energy (WtE) plants would ould aim to reduce its use in favour of treatments higher in the waste hierarchy, such as recycling or reuse. Yet this is unrealistic: advanced WtE plants are designed specifically to treat non-recyclable and non-reusable waste fractions. Increasing the cost of WtE would thus not promote better environmental outcomes, but instead paradoxically risk incentivising lower-ranking optionsmost notably landfilling, which remains the only alternative for unrecyclable waste. This would be a step backward: landfills are significantly more detrimental to the environment and climate, and the Commission itself has noted that 13 Member States are not on track to meet the 2035 landfill reduction target. Moreover, higher WtE costs would be passed on to citizens and businesses, while harming recycling by making it more expensive. Recyclers structurally depend on WtE to manage the residues from their operations. If WtE gate fees rise, recycling becomes more expensive too. Therefore, even if landfills were simultaneously included in the ETS, no meaningful steering effect towards recycling would be achieved. Instead, waste exports to third countries would likely increaseundermining EU environmental standards and circular economy goals. Empirical evidence confirms this concern. In countries where WtE has been included in national ETS schemes, recycling rates have stagnated or even declined a decade later. WtE and recycling are not competitors, but complementary partners: the former closes the loop of the latter. Another key aspect to consider is that unlike conventional power plants, where operators can choose which fuel to use, the operator of a WtE plant has no control over the composition of the waste it receives. The primary role of these facilities is to provide an essential public service by treating waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill. Decisions on which waste streams are sent to WtE plants are made upstream, by those who produce the waste. Hence, economic responsibility for emissions should be applied upstream, targeting the producers of fossil-based or non-recyclable materials, e.g. through extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes, which incentivise better product design and the substitution of fossil-based inputs with recyclable or bio-based alternatives. Ultimately, WtE should be recognised as a strategic ally of both the circular economy and the energy transition. While fulfilling its primary waste management role, non-recyclable waste is recovered and reintroduced into the economy, becoming feedstock for the production of non-intermittent electricity and heat , thus decarbonizing the energy mix by replacing fossil fuels (it is important to note that approximately 50% of WtE emissions originate from the treatment of biogenic waste, which is classified as renewable energy under the Renewable Energy Directive. Also to the residues a new life is given, as the resulting ashes are transformed into construction materials or recovered as metals. A2A is ready to work with the European Commission and all relevant stakeholders to identify solutions in support of the EUs climate and environmental objectives. Further details are provided in the attached position paper
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Meeting with Pablo Arias Echeverría (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Jun 2025 · Eu public procurement

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

28 May 2025 · Public procurement

Meeting with Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (Executive Vice-President) and

14 May 2025 · Energy poverty

Meeting with Gaetano Pedulla' (Member of the European Parliament)

14 May 2025 · Povertà energetica e alle attività promosse dal Banco dell’energia

Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Apr 2025 · Waste-to-energy plants and ETS revision

Meeting with Stefano Bonaccini (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Apr 2025 · Meeting with Gruppo A2A

Meeting with Camilla Laureti (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Apr 2025 · Impianti termovalorizzazione

Meeting with Alessandra Moretti (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Apr 2025 · Energy policy

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament) and Stichting Fair Trade Advocacy Office and

4 Apr 2025 · Public procurement

Meeting with Piotr Müller (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Stichting Fair Trade Advocacy Office and MUST Partners

4 Apr 2025 · Evaluation of the Public Procurement Directives

Energy company A2A urges flexible EU sustainability reporting rules

25 Mar 2025
Topic — The initiative aims to simplify sustainability reporting requirements for European companies.
Message — A2A recommends making operating expenditure reporting voluntary and allowing partial alignment. They suggest simplifying the Do No Significant Harm principle to avoid regulatory redundancies.123
Why — This would lower compliance costs and reduce the administrative burden of reporting.45
Impact — Financial analysts and NGOs would have less granular data to monitor corporate impacts.6
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Meeting with Isabella Tovaglieri (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

21 Mar 2025 · Policy in ITRE Committee

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

6 Mar 2025 · Enhancing electricity system resilience and the upcoming EP own-initiative report on electricity grids

Meeting with Dario Tamburrano (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and ENEL SpA and

4 Mar 2025 · Reti elettriche

Meeting with András Gyürk (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

4 Mar 2025 · Electricity grids

Meeting with Lukasz Kolinski (Director Energy)

19 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views and a presentation of A2A’s strategic plan and investments for the green transition

Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Feb 2025 · Presentation of priorities

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Feb 2025 · Priorities for the new legislature

Meeting with Nicola Zingaretti (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Feb 2025 · energy infrastructures

Meeting with Thomas Bajada (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and The Coca-Cola Company and MUST Partners

14 Feb 2025 · Meeting on Water Resilience Strategy

Meeting with Dario Tamburrano (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Dec 2024 · Mercato interno dell'energia elettrica e ricarica pubblica di veicoli elettrici

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Nov 2024 · E-mobility

Meeting with Isabella Tovaglieri (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Nov 2024 · Confronto su questioni di interesse comunitario

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport) and European Chemical Industry Council and

7 Nov 2024 · Ambrosetti Club Europe - Transport and mobility priorities

Meeting with Nicola Zingaretti (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Sept 2024 · Energy

Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Sept 2024 · Presentation of priorities on hydroelectricity production

Meeting with Annalisa Corrado (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Jul 2024 · Energia - Economia circolare

Meeting with Alessandra Moretti (Member of the European Parliament) and European Cancer Organisation

17 Jul 2024 · New term objectives and perspectives

Meeting with Matteo Ricci (Member of the European Parliament) and TERNA ENERGY SOCIETE ANONYME

11 Jul 2024 · ENVI committee

Response to Application of the ‘do no significant harm’ principle to the Social Climate Fund and its possible future extension

20 May 2024

A2A welcomes the European Commissions initiative setting out guidance on implementing the do not significant harm principle (DNSH). As our capacity to invest in the Italian green transition is dependent on a reliable and foreseeable legislative framework, we are hopeful that the upcoming technical guidance on the application of the DNSH principles will provide some clarity over its application to the circular economy sector. Europe is lagging behind its circular targets and is in urgent need of investments. As our contribution to this initiative shows, Waste to Energy (WTE) stands out as the most efficient and less polluting technology to treat the non-recyclable fraction of waste and it reduces our reliance on fossil fuels by generating electricity and heat which, under the Renewable Energy Directive, classify as renewable for the biogenic fraction. Morover, as illustrated by the Waste Early Warning Report, the best performing Member States are the ones that combined investments in separate collection, recycling and WTE. Nevertheless, investing in much needed infrastructure in Member States that lack sufficient capacity is proving harder and harder. The main hurdle is linked to the definition of the DNSH principle set out in Article 17(1)(d)(ii), not being coherent with the Waste Framework Directive which places energy recovery above landfilling and distinguishes between waste incineration for energy recovery and waste incineration for disposal. Finally, the term increase should be considered in light of the actual energy recovery capacity in each Member State and considering the self-sufficiency principle. Please find attached A2As feedback.
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Meeting with Nicola Danti (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Feb 2024 · Aggiornamento dossier e NZIA

Meeting with Herbert Dorfmann (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Feb 2024 · General aspects of EU energy and environmental policy

Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Feb 2024 · Exchange of views on EU energy and environmental policies

Meeting with Paolo De Castro (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Feb 2024 · A2A

Meeting with Marco Campomenosi (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Feb 2024 · Meeting with A2A

Meeting with Daniela Rondinelli (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Feb 2024 · Corporate sustainability policy

Meeting with Adam Romanowski (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

25 Jan 2024 · Introduction to A2A’s portfolio of activities EU energy policy

Meeting with Stefano Grassi (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson)

25 Jan 2024 · Hydropower – energy storage

Meeting with Ruud Kempener (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson)

26 Oct 2023 · Presentation of Agripower's (A2A Group's biomethane production company) current activities and goals in biogas energy production.

Response to Waste Framework review to reduce waste and the environmental impact of waste management

17 Oct 2023

A2A Group, the Life Company that deals with the environment, water and energy, welcomes the EU Commission's proposal to revise the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) by incorporating two of the most resource-intensive sectors, namely textiles and food. As part of the open feedback on the revision of the Waste Framework Directive, we appreciate the opportunity to provide our observations on the inclusion of the textile sector. Please find our comments in the document attached
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Meeting with Stefano Grassi (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson)

20 Sept 2023 · Renewables and biomethane situation in Italy

A2A calls for clearer scope in Green Claims Directive

21 Jul 2023
Topic — The initiative requires companies to substantiate environmental performance claims using footprint methods.
Message — A2A requests clarity on whether institutional brand positioning is included in the directive's scope. They advocate for a proportionality principle and reusing verified claims across multiple channels. Finally, they suggest simple wording to avoid technical information overload for consumers.123
Why — Streamlining the verification process would reduce administrative burdens and prevent market entry delays.4
Impact — Consumers could face higher prices for essential services if verification procedures are overly burdensome.5
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A2A urges phased-in approach for EU sustainability reporting standards

7 Jul 2023
Topic — A consultation on the first set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards for companies.
Message — A2A requests a phase-in period for granular disclosures and more flexibility to reuse information. They also suggest delaying technical biodiversity standards for three years.123
Why — This would lower compliance costs and shield the company from liability over uncertain forecasts.45
Impact — Environmental groups and investors lose access to comprehensive data on biodiversity and subsidiaries.67
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Meeting with Anouk Faber (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit), Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit)

31 May 2023 · Meeting on Skills Policies

A2A Urges Streamlined Permitting and Grid Upgrades for Heat Pumps

25 May 2023
Topic — The EU is developing an action plan to accelerate heat pump deployment.
Message — A2A calls for simplified permitting processes and stronger power grids to support heat pump adoption. They also advocate for better technical training for public administrators and redesigned financial incentives.12
Why — These reforms would lower entry barriers for A2A in the heating market.3
Impact — Traditional heating providers lose market share as subsidies move toward cleaner alternatives.4
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A2A urges market-driven approaches in EU electricity design reform

12 May 2023
Topic — This consultation focuses on reforming the EU electricity market to protect consumers.
Message — A2A supports long-term power purchase agreements but urges that two-way contracts for difference remain competitive. They also argue that hedging strategies and fixed-price offers should remain voluntary for suppliers to ensure market efficiency.123
Why — Flexible collateral requirements and mandatory compensation for regulated prices would protect their financial liquidity.45
Impact — New market entrants could be hindered if the commission imposes rigid, unjustified hedging requirements.6
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A2A Urges EU to Include Waste-to-Energy in Green Taxonomy

3 May 2023
Topic — The European Commission is expanding the classification system for environmentally sustainable investment activities.
Message — A2A asks for waste-to-energy plants to be classified as sustainable under the EU taxonomy. They also want waste treatment and sorting facilities recognized as vital for the circular economy.12
Why — This inclusion would dramatically increase the share of A2A's spending labeled as green.3
Impact — Zero-waste advocates lose if burning waste is given the same green label as recycling.4
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Meeting with Deirdre Clune (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Environmental Bureau and

29 Mar 2023 · Stakeholder Consultation on Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive

Meeting with Margrete Auken (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Bio-Rad Laboratories

14 Mar 2023 · Recast of the UWWTD

Meeting with Patrizia Toia (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Mar 2023 · Electricity market design - Hydrogen - Waste policy

Meeting with Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

1 Mar 2023 · Climate and energy transition

Meeting with Nicola Danti (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Jun 2022 · A2A activities