• ÖVGW is the Austrian Association for Gas and Water, representing more than 250 water suppliers, supplying more than 70% of Austria’s population. • ÖVGW welcomes the zero-pollution action plan as part of the European Green Deal together with the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability for a toxic free environment with the aim to better protect the environment – and drinking water resources - against hazardous…
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ÖVGW
Company · Austria · EU Transparency Register 100244333713-68
6
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
6
legislative files
of 665 tracked
3
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 (57,774 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1518 trade and business associations on this site, they rank #591 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
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declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€25K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
0
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2019
in the register since
Declares membership of
- EurEau - www.eureau.org
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Trade and business associations
- Registered as
- Österreichische Vereinigung für das Gas und Wasserfach (ÖVGW)
- Head office
- Wien, Austria
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
ÖVGW filed 6 positions between 31 May 2021 and 16 May 2024, across 6 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 3 times.
2021 · 2 filed2022 · 2 filed2023 · 1 filed2024 · 1 filed
What they argued
• ÖVGW welcomes the zero-pollution action plan as part of the European Green Deal together with the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability for a toxic free environment with the aim to better protect the environment – including drinking water resources - against hazardous chemicals.
• The provisions (polluter-pays principle) of Article 192.2 (TFEU) must be respected. • The lack of harmonised test methods or definitions should not delay action, as there is ample evidence of microplastics (MP) in all environmental compartments.
The Austrian Association for Gas and Water (ÖVGW) and the Association of Gas- and District Heating Companies (FGW) are representing the operators of the Austrian gas mid/downstream infrastructure. The attached document gathers the technical recommendations from the 5 European associations ENTSOG, Eurogas, GERG, GIE, MARCOGAZ for a successful “Regulation on methane emissions reduction in the energy sector” and is…
OVGW would like to express its deep concern regarding the Commissions draft act to amend Annex III of the Nitrates Directive and its potential impact on drinking water resources. The Nitrates Directive (Directive 91/676/EEC), which was adopted more than 30 years ago to protect water quality by preventing nitrates from agricultural sources from polluting ground- and surface waters and by promoting the use of good…
In the current draft, the three directives (WFD, GWD, EQS) are changed in one go, which contributes to the coherence between the directives. The directives are relevant to the drinking water supply insofar as they contain quality targets and monitoring obligations for groundwater and surface water.
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