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KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA

Acronym: KWS

General Information

Identification Code: 106034119290-26
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Entity Form: SE & Co. KGaA
Registration Category: Companies & groups
Registration Date: 10/22/2015
Last Update: 2/14/2024
EP Accredited Number: 2

Mission & Interests

Goals: KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Over 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around $1,94 billion in the fiscal year 2022/2023. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than $320 million last fiscal year in research and development.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Business and industry
  • Climate action
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Environment
  • Food safety
  • Institutional affairs
  • International co-operation and development
  • Research and innovation
  • Single market
  • Trade
Levels of Interest:
  • national
  • global
  • sub-national
  • european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC REGULATION (EC) No 1107/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/62 Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the production and marketing of plant reproductive material in the Union, amending Regulations (EU) 2016/2031, 2017/625 and 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 2002/53/EC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC, 2002/57/EC, 2008/72/EC and 2008/90/EC (Regulation on plant reproductive material) Horizon programme
Communication Activities: KWS in principle accompanies all of its political initiatives, objectives and actions also with communication and public relations. Over the past years this included engagement with the media on innovation and science in plant breeding and on agricultural practices, often in cooperation with or in support of our main associations.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Rural, mountainous and remote areas (RUMRA) and smart villages

Head Office

Address: Grimsehlstr. 31
Post Code: 37574
City: Einbeck
Country: GERMANY
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EU Office

Address: Grimsehlstr. 31
Post Code: 37574
City: Einbeck
Country: GERMANY
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: We participated to the following EU projects and receveid funds for research puporses. Those amounts are NOT used for any activities within the scope of the Transparency Register. • 2022: ROOT2RES (111.45 euro) & EIC project - Triparental Plants (3PaTec) (323.342 euro) • 2024: Legume Generation EU Horizon Europe (71.836 euro)

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 4
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 5
Members F T E: 1.399999976158142

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: www.eu40.eu;
Organisation Members: www.euroseeds.org; www.plantetp.org;