Tata Steel Ltd – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Strong	Tata Steel discloses a structured process to govern and align both its direct advocacy and its participation in industry associations with its climate objectives, indicating strong lobbying governance. The company states that “Regulatory Affairs with support of Environment teams handles stakeholder engagements, advocacy and communication related to Climate Change in respective geographies” and that draft positions are “circulated internally for review and review outcome / feedback are integrated in the final communication for all stakeholders,” showing a formal internal sign-off mechanism for direct lobbying. Oversight is clearly assigned: “Under the supervision of the Board, Tata Steel's CEO & MD chairs the Apex Environment and Sustainability Committee” and this body “sets the strategic objectives, reviews and monitors actions and performance, identifies risks, and proposes mitigation plans,” demonstrating high-level accountability. For indirect lobbying, the company says it operates “a management system where we review and monitor process to assess whether public policy engagements with our industry associations are aligned with the organization’s commitment towards Net Zero by 2045” and affirms that “we ensure that our participation in industry bodies reflect our climate priorities,” indicating active alignment of trade-association activity with its net-zero strategy. Additional structures such as the “Policy Advocacy Impact Centre,” the SME(ECCW) forum and Tata Steel Europe’s “Policy Coordination committee and Environment Policy Coordination committee” are cited as venues that “identify relevant climate and energy related regulations and policy trends and ensure that our related activities and engagement are consistent,” providing evidence of regular monitoring. While the disclosures do not reference a publicly available climate-lobbying alignment audit or examples of withdrawing from misaligned associations, the combination of a defined policy, oversight by named senior leaders and committees, and explicit processes covering both direct and indirect engagement indicates strong governance over climate-related lobbying activities. View Sources	B

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Strong

Tata Steel discloses a structured process to govern and align both its direct advocacy and its participation in industry associations with its climate objectives, indicating strong lobbying governance. The company states that “Regulatory Affairs with support of Environment teams handles stakeholder engagements, advocacy and communication related to Climate Change in respective geographies” and that draft positions are “circulated internally for review and review outcome / feedback are integrated in the final communication for all stakeholders,” showing a formal internal sign-off mechanism for direct lobbying. Oversight is clearly assigned: “Under the supervision of the Board, Tata Steel's CEO & MD chairs the Apex Environment and Sustainability Committee” and this body “sets the strategic objectives, reviews and monitors actions and performance, identifies risks, and proposes mitigation plans,” demonstrating high-level accountability. For indirect lobbying, the company says it operates “a management system where we review and monitor process to assess whether public policy engagements with our industry associations are aligned with the organization’s commitment towards Net Zero by 2045” and affirms that “we ensure that our participation in industry bodies reflect our climate priorities,” indicating active alignment of trade-association activity with its net-zero strategy. Additional structures such as the “Policy Advocacy Impact Centre,” the SME(ECCW) forum and Tata Steel Europe’s “Policy Coordination committee and Environment Policy Coordination committee” are cited as venues that “identify relevant climate and energy related regulations and policy trends and ensure that our related activities and engagement are consistent,” providing evidence of regular monitoring. While the disclosures do not reference a publicly available climate-lobbying alignment audit or examples of withdrawing from misaligned associations, the combination of a defined policy, oversight by named senior leaders and committees, and explicit processes covering both direct and indirect engagement indicates strong governance over climate-related lobbying activities.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Comprehensive	Tata Steel discloses a very high level of detail on every aspect of its climate-policy lobbying. It names numerous specific measures it has engaged on, including the EU and UK Emissions Trading Schemes, the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, the UK’s 6th Carbon Budget, India’s National Tariff Policy, Steel Scrap Recycling Policy, Draft Vehicle Scrapping Policy, Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy and amendments to the Energy Conservation Act that would create a National Carbon Market. The company also explains how it advocates: it describes direct engagement with EU, UK and Dutch governments, India’s Ministry of Steel, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways; participation in EU consultations on CBAM, submission of “responses to consultations on proposed new legislation,” membership of government taskforces, contributions to technology road-maps, and collaboration through industry bodies such as “Eurofer, the Energy Transitions Commission, UK Steel, World Steel Association” and others. Finally, Tata Steel is explicit about what it is seeking to achieve. It calls for incentives in the National Tariff Policy “for promoting more investments in tapping waste-heat and waste-pressure energy streams,” supports phased mandatory implementation of the Vehicle Scrapping Policy to secure scrap supply and cut emissions, backs graded sectoral targets and resource-efficiency metrics in the Steel Scrap Recycling Policy, and presses the UK Government to honour the £500 million support package tied to the Electric Arc Furnace project. Together with goals such as replacing a Dutch blast furnace with DRI-EAF capacity by 2030 and advocating carbon-pricing frameworks, these statements show clear, concrete policy outcomes the company wants. Overall, Tata Steel provides comprehensive and transparent disclosure of the climate policies it lobbies, the channels and targets of that lobbying, and the specific results it seeks.	A