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voestalpine AG

Die voestalpine ist ein weltweit führender Stahl- und Technologiekonzern mit kombinierter Werkstoff- und Verarbeitungskompetenz.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Angelika Winzig (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Jan 2026 · Meeting with a representative of Voestalpine

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and

28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM.

Response to Carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage - certification methodologies for permanent carbon removals

22 Sept 2025

Thank you very much for the opportunity to comment. Please find attached our comments and suggestions on the present draft.
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Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and

9 Jul 2025 · Shaping a new Team Europe approach towards LAC in order to increase the success rate of EU Railways industry on tenders on the region.

Response to Verification of carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products

1 Jul 2025

The following general remark would be worth considering and discussing from our perspective, namely whether the relevant regulations of the EU ETS could be applied here. In principle, for the sake of administrative simplification and legal certainty, specifically also for the simplification of the eligibility of Carbon Removal Certificates in the EU ETS. Specifically, this would refer to the MRR, Regulation (EU) 2018/2066, as well as the AVR, Regulation (EU) 2018/2067, as follows: MRR: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/2066/2025-01-01 AVR: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/2067/2025-01-01
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Meeting with Anna Stürgkh (Member of the European Parliament)

20 May 2025 · Introduction

Meeting with Günther Sidl (Member of the European Parliament) and OMV Aktiengesellschaft

15 May 2025 · General Exchange of Views

Meeting with Hans Stausboll (Acting Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and

6 May 2025 · Shaping a new Team Europe approach towards Asia and Sub- Saharan Africa in order to develop rail projects in both regions while ensuring the competitiveness of the EU’s railways industry.

Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and

31 Mar 2025 · Shaping a new Team Europe approach towards LAC in order to increase the success rate of EU Railways industry on tenders on the region.

Meeting with Elisabeth Werner (Deputy Secretary-General Secretariat-General)

4 Mar 2025 · Competitiveness of the EU steel industry

Response to Permanent storage of EU ETS emissions through carbon capture and utilisation

16 Jul 2024

Thank you for the opportunity to comment. Please find our statement in the uploaded document.
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Meeting with Barbara Herbolzheimer (Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn)

7 Sept 2022 · Current economic developments

Meeting with Angelika Winzig (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

7 Apr 2022 · Exchange

Meeting with Barbara Herbolzheimer (Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn)

8 Feb 2022 · Green transition - fit for 55

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

2 Feb 2022 · Exchange on energy price surges, investment needs and support to decarbonisation objectives

Meeting with Johannes Hahn (Commissioner)

11 Oct 2021 · Green deal ambitions; Current developments in energy prices; European recovery, global economic situation.

Response to Commission Delegated Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2019/856 as regards the application procedure

13 Apr 2021

Thanks for the opportunity to comment the proposed changes to Innovation Fund application procedure. Please refer to the attached document for our feedback.
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Response to State aid rules for Research, Development and Innovation

12 Jan 2021

The main objective of the review, namely to simplify and clarify the rules, should also be pursued by recommending preferences for the intellectual-property-related conditions, which are used to assess, if with regard to collaboration projects state aid is present or not. In this respect, intellectual property rights should, as a recommended preference rather be allocated by the contribution of the partners than being compensated for by market prices. This proposal is justified by the practical difficulties in establishing the correct market price for the result of a collaboration.
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Response to Revision of the Communication on important projects of common European interest

21 Dec 2020

According to the roadmap, a revision of the Communication should, amongst others, take into account the European Union’s objectives of the Digital Agenda, Industrial Strategy and the Green Deal as well as the Commission’s plan for the post-COVID recovery of the European economy. To achieve this, the following modifications should be implemented: » Extend the co-financing requirement of the beneficiary by the option of co-financing by other, especially European Union, funds. » Extend the eligible projects of Point 23 in the section “specific criteria” with climate protection projects. » Harmonization of “funding gap calculation” between EU Innovation Fund and IPCEI initiatives: Add a provision which would allow to consider the relevant costs of project proposals submitted to the Innovation Fund of the European Union Emissions Trading System, EU-ETS IF, as being equivalent to and compatible with the IPCEI funding gap. » In order to increase legal certainty and efficiency for project applicants and authorities. » Furthermore, allow for alignment of schemes, especially make sure to consider value chains rather than individual process steps and suitable input material demand including energy and raw material supply. » Allow funding until the project is economically feasible with a maximum duration of up to 10 years (similar to EU-ETS IF funding) instead of funding until “mass production” has been achieved or allow mass production as long as it has an innovative element. » For projects, which invest into installations with a long lifetime, the funding gap calculation should not be made across the full lifetime of the investment, but rather be confined to the duration of the project.
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Response to Revision of the Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (EEAG)

9 Dec 2020

According to the Inception Impact Assessment the first of two objectives for the revision is, in the context of the Green Deal and the resulting demand for more innovative technologies, to allow aid around broadly defined policy objectives. To make this operative and effective we proposes to introduce the new aid category “aid for decarbonisation measures in energy-intensive industry”, which would allow to cover all operational cost and investment cost of transformed material production, which go beyond what EU and international markets are willing and able to pay. Merely addressing relocation risks due to energy related charges and allowing either OPEX or CAPEX will not be sufficient. According to the Inception Impact Assessment, the second of two objectives for the revision seems to revolve around the intention to reduce or abolish existing reductions for energy intensive users, if it can not be demonstrated that these reductions have led to more ambitious renewables policies by Member States. voestalpine reminds that it is the main purpose of these reductions, most importantly reductions and exemptions from energy taxes and contributions to funding schemes for renewables, to avoid loss of revenues and economic activity for the state due to cessation of respective economic activity of energy intensive companies, as these companies cannot economically adsorb the costs of these taxes and contributions. Consequently, said reductions must not be reduced, neither in scope nor extent. Both measures, to introduce aid category for decarbonisation measures in energy-intensive industry and to maintain existing reductions for energy intensive users, are indispensable not just to facilitate but to enable a fast industrial transformation. Against this background, transparency requirements are acceptable, if designed in a way as to avoid publication of competition relevant information, whilst “broadening”, “tendering” and “cross-border opening”, by tendency, cannot easily be aligned with the structure of energy-intensive industry, which is characterized by rather few installations distributed across many Member States.
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Meeting with Johannes Hahn (Commissioner)

16 Nov 2020 · Green Deal and Recovery Plan for Europe

Meeting with Dominique Ristori (Director-General Energy) and European Chemical Industry Council and

8 Jun 2018 · clean energy transition

Meeting with Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner) and European Chemical Industry Council and

8 Jun 2018 · Energy transition and the energy intensive industry