Verband Kommunaler Unternehmen e.V.

VKU

Der VKU ist die Interessenvertretung der kommunalen Ver- und Entsorgungswirtschaft in Deutschland.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Nov 2025 · Water

Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

18 Nov 2025 · Environmental Omnibus & Circular Economy Act

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament) and Trianel GmbH

18 Nov 2025 · Breakfast Event on Affordable Energy Prices

Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Oct 2025 · Climate and Environment Policy

Meeting with Christine Singer (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Oct 2025 · Veranstaltung Dezember

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Sept 2025 · Exchange on Industrial Decarbonisation Act

Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Sept 2025 · circular economy

Response to Digital Networks Act

10 Jul 2025

Meeting with Angelika Niebler (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Jul 2025 · Omnibus I, CSRD and CSDDD

Response to Cloud and AI Development Act

1 Jul 2025

Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Jun 2025 · Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament) and Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V.

11 Jun 2025 · EU Water Policy

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

10 Jun 2025 · Water Resilience Strategy and Urban Waster Water Treatment Directive

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament) and

23 May 2025 · EU Energiepolitik

Meeting with Martin Häusling (Member of the European Parliament)

12 May 2025 · Besuchergruppe: VKU-Landesgruppe Hessen

Meeting with Matthias Ecke (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Apr 2025 · Breitbandausbau | DNA

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals

21 Mar 2025 · Surface water and groundwater pollutants

Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament) and

19 Mar 2025 · Austausch

Meeting with Silke Dalton (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)

5 Feb 2025 · Digital infrastructure on communal level in Germany

Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Feb 2025 · EU Industry policy

Meeting with Michael Bloss (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Feb 2025 · Austausch Industrie und Klimapolitik

Response to Single Market Strategy 2025

30 Jan 2025

Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Jan 2025 · 2040-Klimaziel (staff level)

Meeting with Christine Singer (Member of the European Parliament) and Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.

29 Jan 2025 · Austausch neue Legislaturperiode

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Jan 2025 · EU Water Policy

Meeting with Stefan Köhler (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Nov 2024 · Politischer Austausch

Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

18 Nov 2024 · priorities for the municipal economy

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Oct 2024 · EU Environmental Policy

Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Oct 2024 · Climate and Environment Policy

Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament) and

1 Oct 2024 · EU Energy and Industry Policy

Meeting with Marion Walsmann (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Sept 2024 · KMU

Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Aug 2024 · Climate and Energy Policy

Meeting with Christine Singer (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Aug 2024 · Austausch neue Legislaturperiode

Meeting with Astrid Dentler (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra), Olivia Gippner (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

22 Apr 2024 · Fit for 55, 2040 target, financing the energy transition, district heating.

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

23 Feb 2024 · Exchange on the European gas markets

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

13 Dec 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive

Response to Administrative burden

30 Nov 2023

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Open Grid Europe GmbH

26 Oct 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive

Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Oct 2023 · Waste framework directive

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

29 Sept 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

5 Sept 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive (staff level)

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

3 May 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive (staff level)

Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)

3 May 2023 · Gaspaket und Reform des Strommarktdesigns

Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Apr 2023 · Urban Wastewarter Treatment

Meeting with Sabine Verheyen (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Apr 2023 · Urban Wastewater Treatment

Meeting with Christine Schneider (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Apr 2023 · UWWT

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

18 Apr 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive (staff level)

Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

17 Apr 2023 · Packaging Waste

Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

14 Oct 2022 · ETS

Meeting with Damian Boeselager (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Oct 2022 · Data Act

Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Sept 2022 · Waste Shipment

Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Sept 2022 · Exchange on Digital Policy

Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

23 May 2022 · ETS

Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Mar 2022 · Circular Economy

Meeting with Ismail Ertug (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

17 Mar 2022 · AFIR - Speaker at roundtable: “Challenges and opportunities of alternative fuels infrastructure deployment from an energy system perspective”

Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and European Federation of Local and Regional Energy Companies

10 Mar 2022 · Exchange on the gas market directive

Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

11 Feb 2022 · ETS Revision

Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Feb 2022 · Fit for 55

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

12 Jan 2022 · Circular economy implementation

Response to EU strategy for textiles

2 Feb 2021

Meeting with Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and European Federation of Local and Regional Energy Companies

10 Feb 2020 · Grean deal, smart sector integration, renovation wave

Meeting with Thomas Zerdick (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

4 Dec 2018 · Future of the Rule of Law in Europe

Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

4 Dec 2018 · DSM Presentation

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

4 Dec 2018 · MFF and European elections

Meeting with Joachim Balke (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)

1 Jun 2018 · Market Design

Response to Revision of the EU SME Definition

6 Jul 2017

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

21 Mar 2017 · Whitepaper

Meeting with Joachim Balke (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)

5 Apr 2016 · Market Design

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

14 Mar 2016 · Digitalisation of local Industries

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

24 Feb 2015 · Broadband