Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | WAG Payment Solutions (Eurowag) provides a moderate level of transparency on its climate-related lobbying. It identifies concrete files it has worked on, naming the EU’s Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) and the “EU Mobility Package,” and also references its involvement in “alternative-energy directives” and evolving reporting rules, giving readers a reasonably clear picture of the policy landscape it seeks to influence. The company describes several channels through which it lobbies and the actors it targets: it holds “one on one meetings,” engages “through trade bodies” such as IRU, Fleet Cards Europe (whose Sustainability Working Group it chairs) and UPEI, participates in the EU Sustainable Transport Forum, and worked directly with “Czech and EU policymakers,” including engagement with the Czech Government during its EU Council Presidency and the CEO’s participation in COP26 as part of the Czech delegation. These disclosures show both direct and indirect mechanisms and specify the jurisdictions addressed. On outcomes, however, the company remains general, expressing support for a “paradigm shift in fuel and energy taxation,” “introducing higher and generally binding carbon pricing,” and promoting “technology neutral regulations” and policies that “support decarbonisation in the CRT sector,” without detailing the concrete amendments, numeric targets or legislative changes it is pressing for. As a result, while the company is clear about the topics it engages on and how it does so, it provides only broad statements about the policy results it seeks. | 2 |