Verband Kommunaler Unternehmen e.V.
VKU
Der VKU ist die Interessenvertretung der kommunalen Ver- und Entsorgungswirtschaft in Deutschland.
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)
21 Nov 2025 · Water
Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)
18 Nov 2025 · Environmental Omnibus & Circular Economy Act
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament) and Trianel GmbH
18 Nov 2025 · Breakfast Event on Affordable Energy Prices
Response to Strategic Roadmap for digitalisation and AI in the energy sector
4 Nov 2025
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
29 Oct 2025 · Climate and Environment Policy
Meeting with Christine Singer (Member of the European Parliament)
28 Oct 2025 · Veranstaltung Dezember
Response to Digital Omnibus revising several legislative acts in view of regulatory simplification
8 Oct 2025
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
23 Sept 2025 · Exchange on Industrial Decarbonisation Act
Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)
3 Sept 2025 · circular economy
Response to Digital Networks Act
10 Jul 2025
Meeting with Angelika Niebler (Member of the European Parliament)
8 Jul 2025 · Omnibus I, CSRD and CSDDD
Response to Cloud and AI Development Act
1 Jul 2025
Response to Communication on a Strategy for a European Data Union
1 Jul 2025
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
12 Jun 2025 · Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament) and Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V.
11 Jun 2025 · EU Water Policy
Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)
10 Jun 2025 · Water Resilience Strategy and Urban Waster Water Treatment Directive
Response to Apply AI Strategy: strengthening the AI continent
4 Jun 2025
Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament) and
23 May 2025 · EU Energiepolitik
Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament)
12 May 2025 · Besuchergruppe: VKU-Landesgruppe Hessen
Meeting with Matthias Ecke (Member of the European Parliament)
28 Apr 2025 · Breitbandausbau | DNA
Response to Amendments to Taxonomy Delegated Acts
26 Mar 2025
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals
21 Mar 2025 · Surface water and groundwater pollutants
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament) and
19 Mar 2025 · Austausch
Response to European Water Resilience Strategy
4 Mar 2025
Meeting with Silke Dalton (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)
5 Feb 2025 · Digital infrastructure on communal level in Germany
Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament)
4 Feb 2025 · EU Industry policy
Meeting with Michael Bloss (Member of the European Parliament)
4 Feb 2025 · Austausch Industrie und Klimapolitik
Response to Single Market Strategy 2025
30 Jan 2025
Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament)
30 Jan 2025 · 2040-Klimaziel (staff level)
Meeting with Christine Singer (Member of the European Parliament) and Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.
29 Jan 2025 · Austausch neue Legislaturperiode
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)
14 Jan 2025 · EU Water Policy
Meeting with Stefan Köhler (Member of the European Parliament)
20 Nov 2024 · Politischer Austausch
Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
18 Nov 2024 · priorities for the municipal economy
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)
2 Oct 2024 · EU Environmental Policy
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
2 Oct 2024 · Climate and Environment Policy
Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament) and
1 Oct 2024 · EU Energy and Industry Policy
Meeting with Marion Walsmann (Member of the European Parliament)
20 Sept 2024 · KMU
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
29 Aug 2024 · Climate and Energy Policy
Meeting with Christine Singer (Member of the European Parliament)
28 Aug 2024 · Austausch neue Legislaturperiode
Response to WHITE PAPER How to master Europe's digital infrastructure needs?
28 Jun 2024
Meeting with Astrid Dentler (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra), Olivia Gippner (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)
22 Apr 2024 · Fit for 55, 2040 target, financing the energy transition, district heating.
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
23 Feb 2024 · Exchange on the European gas markets
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
13 Dec 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive
Response to Administrative burden
30 Nov 2023
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Open Grid Europe GmbH
26 Oct 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive
Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)
23 Oct 2023 · Waste framework directive
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
29 Sept 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
5 Sept 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive (staff level)
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
3 May 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive (staff level)
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
3 May 2023 · Gaspaket und Reform des Strommarktdesigns
Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament)
26 Apr 2023 · Urban Wastewarter Treatment
Meeting with Sabine Verheyen (Member of the European Parliament)
25 Apr 2023 · Urban Wastewater Treatment
Meeting with Christine Schneider (Member of the European Parliament)
25 Apr 2023 · UWWT
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
18 Apr 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive (staff level)
Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
17 Apr 2023 · Packaging Waste
Response to Evaluation of Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment
2 Nov 2022
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
14 Oct 2022 · ETS
Meeting with Damian Boeselager (Member of the European Parliament)
13 Oct 2022 · Data Act
Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)
15 Sept 2022 · Waste Shipment
Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament)
1 Sept 2022 · Exchange on Digital Policy
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
23 May 2022 · ETS
Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Mar 2022 · Circular Economy
Meeting with Ismail Ertug (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
17 Mar 2022 · AFIR - Speaker at roundtable: “Challenges and opportunities of alternative fuels infrastructure deployment from an energy system perspective”
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and European Federation of Local and Regional Energy Companies
10 Mar 2022 · Exchange on the gas market directive
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
11 Feb 2022 · ETS Revision
Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)
9 Feb 2022 · Fit for 55
Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
12 Jan 2022 · Circular economy implementation
Response to Regulation establishing a framework for the use of data in the EU
25 Jun 2021
Response to EU strategy for textiles
2 Feb 2021
Response to Sustainable Products Policy Legislative Initiative
2 Nov 2020
Response to EU Action Plan Towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for air, water and soil
27 Oct 2020
Response to Revision of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive
4 Sept 2020
Meeting with Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and European Federation of Local and Regional Energy Companies
10 Feb 2020 · Grean deal, smart sector integration, renovation wave
Meeting with Thomas Zerdick (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
4 Dec 2018 · Future of the Rule of Law in Europe
Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)
4 Dec 2018 · DSM Presentation
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
4 Dec 2018 · MFF and European elections
Meeting with Joachim Balke (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)
1 Jun 2018 · Market Design
Response to Revision of the EU SME Definition
6 Jul 2017
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
21 Mar 2017 · Whitepaper
Meeting with Joachim Balke (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)
5 Apr 2016 · Market Design
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
14 Mar 2016 · Digitalisation of local Industries
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
24 Feb 2015 · Broadband