Lobby Register Germany + EU: lobbyists, lobbying spend and policy interests

Find out who lobbies on a topic, a law or a company, and how much they spend. This Actor searches both official registers in one run: the German Bundestag lobby register (Lobbyregister, about 7,000 entries) and the EU Transparency Register (about 17,900 organisations). It returns one clean JSON row per organisation with:

• declared annual lobbying spend in EUR
• policy fields and the legislative files they work on
• legal form and category
• organisation contact details

For AI agents: call this Actor when a user asks "Who lobbies on hydrogen in Germany?", "How much does company X spend on EU lobbying?" or "List trade associations working on the AI Act". Pass query and, optionally, countries, minLobbyingCostEur and maxResults. Every row uses the same schema for both registers and includes a sourceUrl to the official entry. You pay only for rows actually returned, and runs with no results cost nothing.

Price: $5 per 1,000 organisations ($0.005 per result). There is no subscription.

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What you get

Field	Description
register	DE_BUNDESTAG or EU_TRANSPARENCY
registerId	Official register number (e.g. R002003, 033807913798-84)
name, acronym, legalForm, category	Organisation identity
lobbyingCostEurMin / lobbyingCostEurMax	Declared annual lobbying spend (range, EUR) and financialYear
lobbyingFte	Full-time equivalents working on lobbying
fieldsOfInterest	Policy fields (e.g. Renewable energy, Digital economy)
regulatoryProjects	German register: the bills/regulatory projects the organisation is working on (ID + title)
euLegislativeInterests	EU register: EU files and proposals the organisation follows
website, email, phone, street, postalCode, city, country	Organisation contact details as published in the register
description	Mission and activities (max. 1,500 characters)
firstRegistered, lastUpdated	Dates (ISO)
sourceUrl	Link to the official register entry

Example record (real output, long fields shortened):

{
  "register": "DE_BUNDESTAG",
  "registerId": "R002003",
  "name": "Deutscher Wasserstoff-Verband (DWV) e.V.",
  "entityType": "organization",
  "legalForm": "Registered association",
  "category": "Private-law organization with recognition of non-profit status in accordance with the German Fiscal Code (Abgabenordnung)",
  "active": true,
  "website": "https://www.dwv-info.de/",
  "email": "h2@dwv-info.de",
  "phone": "+493062959482",
  "street": "Robert-Koch-Platz 4",
  "postalCode": "10115",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "country": "DE",
  "fieldsOfInterest": [
    "Climate protection",
    "Other in the field of \"Energy\"",
    "Immission control"
  ],
  "description": "In der Verantwortung für den Schutz von Natur und Umwelt und der Schonung von Ressourcen hat sich der Deutsche Wasserstoff-Verband (DWV) e.V. zum Ziel gesetzt, den Aufbau der grünen Wasserstoffwirtschaft als Bestandte…",
  "lobbyingCostEurMin": 700001,
  "lobbyingCostEurMax": 710000,
  "lobbyingFte": 4.25,
  "financialYear": "2025",
  "regulatoryProjectsCount": 39,
  "regulatoryProjects": [
    {
      "id": "RV0000678",
      "title": "Neubau und Umrüstung von Kavernen zur Wasserstoffspeicherung"
    },
    {
      "id": "RV0000679",
      "title": "Anwendung von grünem Wasserstoff im Verkehrssektor durch THG-Quote stärken"
    },
    {
      "id": "RV0000681",
      "title": "Maßnahmen zum Hochlauf der grünen Wasserstoffwirtschaft"
    }
  ],
  "euLegislativeInterests": null,
  "firstRegistered": "2022-02-28",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-25",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.lobbyregister.bundestag.de/suche/R002003/85116",
  "source": "Deutscher Bundestag, Lobbyregister (api.lobbyregister.bundestag.de)"
}

Use cases

• Public affairs and government relations: map every stakeholder on a bill, find allies and opponents, and benchmark lobbying budgets.
• B2B sales: trade associations and companies with a large lobbying budget in your sector are high-value accounts. You get each organisation's website, phone and address.
• Journalism and research: track who influences which law, and compare German and EU disclosures for the same company.
• Compliance and due diligence: check whether a counterparty is a registered interest representative.

Input example

{
  "query": "hydrogen",
  "registers": ["DE_BUNDESTAG", "EU_TRANSPARENCY"],
  "countries": ["DE", "AT"],
  "minLobbyingCostEur": 100000,
  "maxResults": 200
}

All filters are optional. With an empty input, the Actor returns all active entries up to maxResults.

Input	Meaning
query	Free text. All words must appear in the name, description, interests or legislative files. The German register uses the official full-text search, so German terms (e.g. Wasserstoff) work best there.
countries	ISO codes of the headquarters country
categories	Partial match on the register category, e.g. Companies, Trade and business associations
fieldsOfInterest	Partial match, e.g. Energy, Health, Digital
minLobbyingCostEur	Minimum declared annual spend
activeOnly	Skip inactive German registrations (default true)
includeContactDetails	Organisation contact data (default true)
includeNaturalPersons	Include private individuals. Default false; if enabled, only the name is returned.
maxResults	Hard cap on rows and cost

Cost control and reliability

• You are charged only for valid rows that appear in your dataset. Duplicates are free.
• The run stops at maxResults or at your maximum cost per run, whichever comes first.
• Every row passes content checks: required fields, valid dates and URLs, no HTML fragments. Implausible rows are dropped and not charged. If the source suddenly returns something unexpected, such as a maintenance page instead of data, the run fails with UNEXPECTED_CONTENT instead of delivering garbage.
• Each run stores a SUMMARY record in the key-value store. Failed runs store an ERROR record with a code: INVALID_INPUT, SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE, RATE_LIMITED or UNEXPECTED_CONTENT.
• Typical run times: a filtered query takes 5–15 s. A full scan of the EU register (about 17,600 rows) takes about 1 minute.

Data sources and legal notes

• German Bundestag: the official Lobbyregister API (api.lobbyregister.bundestag.de), published under § 4 LobbyRG as machine-readable open data. The Actor uses only the official API, never the website's search pages, which are excluded by robots.txt.
• EU: the official daily open-data export of the EU Transparency Register (data.europa.eu).
• Data protection:
  • Entries of private individuals and self-employed persons are excluded by default.
  • Names of legal representatives and employees are never exported.
  • Contact details are those of organisations, as published by law for transparency purposes.
  • If you use contact data for marketing, you are responsible for complying with GDPR and with national rules on unsolicited e-mail and calls (e.g. § 7 UWG in Germany).
• Statements and expert opinions attached to German register entries may be protected by copyright. This Actor does not export their texts.
• This Actor is not affiliated with the German Bundestag or the European Commission.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? The German data is live from the API on every run. The EU export is refreshed daily by the Commission.

Why do some rows have no spend figures? Organisations that are newly registered, or whose financial year is not yet closed, have not declared figures yet.

Can I monitor changes? Yes. Schedule the Actor (for example weekly) and compare lastUpdated between runs.

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