Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | HELLENiQ ENERGY provides a moderate level of transparency on its climate-related lobbying. It identifies several concrete policy arenas it has engaged on, including the EU’s Strategy for the Energy Transition to a Zero-Carbon Economy by 2050, the Paris Agreement objectives, and Greece’s reviewed National Plan for Energy and Climate, demonstrating that its lobbying is focussed on clearly recognisable pieces of climate policy. The company also explains how and where it tries to influence these debates: it describes direct engagement with Greek Members of the European Parliament during a FuelsEurope event in Strasbourg and the distribution of a “Motion for Engagement” leaflet and other briefing materials to the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission, showing at least two specific mechanisms and naming the institutional targets of those efforts. On the outcomes it seeks, however, the disclosure remains high-level. The company states that “it is vital for the efuels to obtain a key role… in the European and national Energy and Climate planning” and voices general support for closing lignite plants and expanding renewables, but it does not spell out concrete amendments, thresholds or timelines it is pressing policymakers to adopt. Overall, the company elucidates the policies it addresses and the channels it uses, yet offers only broad indications of the specific policy changes it hopes to achieve. | 2 |