Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | EDP – Energias de Portugal provides highly detailed and specific information about its climate-policy lobbying. It names a wide array of concrete legislative files it has engaged on, including the EU Green Deal and its “Fit for 55” package (revision of the EU ETS, Renewable Energy Directive, Energy Efficiency Directive, Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation, Effort Sharing Regulation, Energy Taxation Directive, CO₂ standards for cars and vans, the Gas Package), the “Electricity Market Design” reform, the “Green Deal Industrial Plan,” the “REPowerEU Plan,” the Renovation Wave Strategy, the EU Smart Sector Integration Strategy and the EU Hydrogen Strategy. The company also sets out the channels it uses and whom it addresses: it “held several meetings with European and national policymakers,” prepared “a response to the public consultation on the revision of the electricity market design,” worked “with Eurelectric and EFET through the participation in working groups and the draft of position papers,” took part in “meetings with MEPs,” and spoke at “conferences and webinars at the European level,” clearly identifying EU institutions, MEPs and national authorities as targets. Finally, EDP spells out the changes it seeks, advocating, for example, for “a stable upward long-term trend” in the EU ETS price, “a renewable target of at least 32 %” in REDII, “a more ambitious rollout of charging points” under AFIR, inclusion of “glass and carbon fibers for wind production” in the Critical Raw Materials Act, principles such as “market cohesion between short- and long-term tools” in electricity-market reform, and enlargement of the ETS to cover buildings within the Renovation Wave. This combination of policy-specific, mechanism-specific and outcome-specific disclosures demonstrates a very high level of transparency around the company’s climate-related lobbying activities. | 4 |