A more competitive Europe, which delivers, inter alia, on the green and digital transitions, strengthens energy security, and enhances defence capabilities, requires more competitive European banks. This heavily depends on embracing three guiding principles: first, Europe needs more harmonized regulation and less national fragmentation, reducing gold-plating and removing national measures that unnecessarily restrict…
EGB
Erste Group Bank AG
Company · Austria · EU Transparency Register 910859715397-14
3
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
3
legislative files
of 665 tracked
1
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,800 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1212 companies & groups on this site, they rank #489 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
2.2
declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€300K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
2
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2014
in the register since
Declares membership of
- Austrian Savings Banks Association
- Institute of International Finance (IIF)
- Vienna Initiative
- FleishmanHillard
- Eurofi
- Aspen Institute Central Europe
- Bundesverband deutscher Banken
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 15 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Companies & groups
- Head office
- Wien, Austria
- EU office
- Brüssel
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 15 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
Erste Group Bank AG filed 3 positions between 3 Sept 2020 and 4 Sept 2026, across 3 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 1 time.
2020 · 2 filed2026 · 1 filed
What they argued
In general, the Commission’s assessment of the current situation seems adequate, especially since interoperability and extensions to digital validation are crucial for a sovereign digital market in Europe. Because of the different pace of digitalization across the EU, several Member States have already implementing digital validation on top of identification.
We welcome the European Commission's consultation and strongly support the proposed exemption of research on SMEs with a market capitalization of up to EUR 1 bn. As one of the largest banking groups in CEE, we have been observing a significant drop in the availability of SME research since the application of the current cost unbundling regime.
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