Barco NV

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Direct Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Comprehensive	Barco NV provides an unusually thorough picture of its climate-related lobbying. It lists multiple identifiable EU initiatives it has engaged on, including the “Sustainable Product Initiative,” “Digital Product Passport,” the “Update EU Eco design regulation,” the “EU draft standby of Household and Office equipment,” and work on the “EU Taxonomy and delegated acts” for climate-change mitigation, making it clear exactly which pieces of legislation it seeks to influence. The company also explains how it lobbies and who it targets: it has “participated in the EU stakeholders meetings and open consultation,” and it engages “via different trade associations (Agoria, Business Europe and Orgalime)” with the “EU Commission and the Platform for Sustainable Financing,” showing both direct and indirect channels and naming the policymaking bodies involved. Finally, Barco sets out the precise outcomes it is pursuing, such as achieving “fair and objective definitions of energy measurements,” ensuring an “LCA driven decision to define spare part lists,” refining the way EU rules “define low carbon products,” and improving “durable and circular product definition and benchmark mechanisms,” while noting that some current proposals are “too vague and will not push economic operators in the good direction.” This level of detail across policies, mechanisms and desired results demonstrates comprehensive transparency on its climate lobbying activity.	4

Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Moderate	Barco NV’s disclosures suggest a modest framework for aligning direct policy engagement with its climate strategy; however, key governance elements for lobbying oversight are not fully articulated. The company explains that “the ECO office coordinates the different engagement activists with the applicable policymakers” and that this office “is part of Barco’s governance structure to monitor and steer KPI setting,” while also noting that “all Bonus eligible employees are financially incentivized to meet Barco cooperate climate change results,” which embeds climate objectives into performance incentives. At the same time, Barco states that “Barco does not make donations or other contributions of any kind to political parties” and “deems the activities related to lobbying and political influence not material for Barco,” suggesting limited focus on formal lobbying governance. We found no evidence of Board or committee oversight of lobbying alignment, no defined process for reviewing climate lobbying activities, nor any mechanism for managing indirect lobbying through trade or industry associations, resulting in a governance process that is currently narrow in scope.	2