BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
Acronym: BSH
General Information
Identification Code: 416456120129-02
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Entity Form: GmbH
Registration Category: Companies & groups
Registration Date: 12/30/2015
Last Update: 3/15/2024
EP Accredited Number: 1
Mission & Interests
Goals: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH is one of the world’s leading companies in its industry and the largest home appliance manufacturer in Europe. Globally driven by individual consumer needs, BSH aspires to continuously improve quality of life at home with its outstanding brands, innovative, sustainable products and top-class digital solutions.
BSH’s product portfolio ranges from large home appliances – such as cooktops, ovens, extractor hoods, dishwashers, washers, dryers, fridges, and freezers – to small home appliances, such as vacuum cleaners, espresso machines as well as small kitchen appliances.
Founded in Germany in 1967 as a joint venture of Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart) and Siemens AG (Munich), BSH has been 100% owned by the Bosch Group since January 2015. With around 63,000 employees worldwide, 39 factories, many of which are located in the EU, we have reached a turnover in 2022 of around 15.9 billion Euros.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Climate action
- Consumers
- Digital economy and society
- Energy
- Environment
- European neighbourhood policy
- Research and innovation
- Single market
Levels of Interest:
- national
- sub-national
- european
- global
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: - Ecodesign:
ESPR Framework, Implementing Acts on kitchen appliances, vacuum cleaners, tumble driers, standby and certain components (lights sources, motors, fans)
- Energy Label:
Delegated Acts on kitchen appliances, vacuum cleaners, tumble driers
- Circular Economy /Resource Efficiency:
Fit for 55, Right to Repair, Empowering Consumers, Substantiating Green Claims
- Waste and Substance and materials legislation:
WEEE revision, REACH, RoHS revision, Packaging Directive, Waste Framework Directive revision, Plastics, Microplastics, Critical Raw Materials
- Single Market / CE System:
Review of New Legislative Framework, Standardisation Strategy
- Product Liability Directive
- Artificial Intelligence Act, AI Liability directive
- Cyber Security: Transposition of NIS2, RED Delegated Acts on Art 3.3, Cyber Resilience Act
- Data Act
Communication Activities: We currently do not drive campaigns as BSH. However we are active in our Key EU Associations (see Heading 12)
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Carl-Wery-Strasse 34
Post Code: 81739
City: München
Country: GERMANY
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EU Office
Address: Rue Picard 7
Post Code: 1000
City: Bruxelles
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data
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Complementary Information: The estimation for b) above includes the cost of BSH’s Brussels office, an estimation for the employees under section 10 as well as activities in line with Heading 14 and 14a of the 2022 guidelines.
Statements under d) Statements under d) are done for 2022 – the year of reference for the current entry; for the years after the closed financial year are not finalised yet.
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 10
Members25 Percent: 2
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 3
Members: 15
Members F T E: 3.75
Info Members: These FTE figures are as required most up-to-date based on the average workload of 2023 personnel cost considered in section 14 are based on costs from 2022 as the last closed financial year.
BSH has several employees that only get occasionally into contact with EU policy and/or legislative issues.
We have included anyone who may work 5% yearly or more on activities covered by the register, these are added up and rounded to the 10% steps offered above by the register.
In view of the guidelines we consider work covered by the register when the persons
- are actively representing BSH interests vis-à-vis EU institutions
- are actively working in APPLiA working groups, as APPLiA is our main EU lobbying association
- are contributing to BSH positions in any of the specific activities listed under Topic 9 of this Transparency Register Entry
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: APPLiA – Home Appliances Europe, Association of the Home Appliances Manufacturers,
https://applia-europe.eu/
ZVEI – Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V., – Germany’s Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association.
https://www.zvei.org/
Organisation Members: BSH is in Europe a member of many organizations or associations, either directly or through its staff, ranging from national industry association to memberships in regional industry chambers. From these organisations we list below the ones which represent industry interests at EU level and to which we contribute actively.