German Association of Liquefied Gas
| German Liquid Gas Association (DVFG) |
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| purpose | Industry association for the liquefied gas industry in Germany |
| Chair: | Rainer Scharr |
| Establishment date: | 1949 |
| Number of members: | 120 (as of 2012) |
| Seat : | Berlin |
| Website: | www.dvfg.de |
The German Association of Liquid Gas eV (DVFG) is the branch association of the liquid gas industry in Germany. The association, founded in 1949, is based in Berlin .
Members
The DVFG has 120 full and extraordinary member companies (as of 2012):
Ordinary members are companies that, as liquid gas supply companies, sustainably operate the energy supply with liquid gas in an area beyond their place of business - equipped with specialist staff, warehouses and supply facilities for a safe, long-term supply that complies with all regulations, as well as a large number of resellers for bottle supply and / or agents.
The extraordinary members are plant manufacturers, automotive groups, LPG suppliers, freight forwarders or testing organizations. The business interests of the associate members are closely linked to those of the liquefied gas supply companies.
Ordinary members are:
- Adolf ROTH GmbH & Co. KG
- Aral Aktiengesellschaft liquid gas division
- Baden RHEINGAS GmbH
- Balzer GmbH & Co. KG
- Emil Betz GmbH & Co. KG
- Boie GmbH & Co. KG
- CAGOGAS GmbH
- CAMPING GAZ (Germany) GmbH
- Deininger LPG GmbH
- Dorow & Sohn KG
- Drachen-Propangas GmbH
- Färber Gas GmbH
- Liquid gas complete service company mbH
- Friedrich Scharr KG
- Gebr. LOTTER KG
- Gößwein-Gas GmbH
- Grebe & Sohn GmbH
- Heinrich Ludwig GmbH
- Joh. Storm GmbH & Co. KG
- Johannes Klinger GmbH & Co. KG
- Knauber Gas GmbH & Co. KG
- PETROCHEM Mineralöl-Handelsges. mb H.
- Primagas Energie GmbH & Co. KG
- Progas GmbH & Co KG
- Propane Rheingas GmbH & Co. KG
- Propane-Gesellschaft mbH
- Rheingas Halle Saalegas GmbH
- Rießner-Gase GmbH
- Salzgitter-Gas GmbH
- Friedrichshafen GmbH oxygen works
- Schneider-Gas e. K.
- SCHRÖDER GAS GmbH & Co. KG
- Stefan Böhme liquefied gas trading
- Stadtwerke Rinteln GmbH
- TEGA - Technische Gase und Gasetechnik GmbH
- THERMOGAS Gas and Equipment Sales GmbH
- TOTAL Germany GmbH
- Tyczka Trading & Supply GmbH & Co. KG
- WESTFA Vertriebs- und Verwaltungs-GmbH
- WPG Westfälische Propan-GmbH
- WTL GmbH
Cartel formation
In December 2007 the Federal Cartel Office imposed fines totaling almost EUR 208 million for customer protection agreements and found that the accused companies “agreed as members of the German Association of Liquid Gas eV (DVFG) on the basis of the association's competition rules to refrain from soliciting customers ”. The OLG Düsseldorf rejected the objection to the fine notices from the Federal Cartel Office in its judgment of April 15, 2013 and increased the fine to 244 million euros. The verdict is not yet legally binding.
Self-expression and goals
The interest group wants to participate in various national and international committees in the creation of standards and regulations and to advise the member companies about the most important economic and technical developments. In cooperation with politics, authorities and other institutions, programs and proposals for the rational use of liquefied gas are to be developed and scenarios for market prospects are to be worked out.
The DVFG wants to prevent preferential treatment or discrimination of individual energies, to ensure price and performance competition in the energy market and to safeguard consumers' freedom of choice when choosing their energy.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DVFG annual report 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.7 MB)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Case report: OWiG procedure for liquid gas ( memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 84 kB).
- ↑ Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court imposes heavy fines on the “liquid gas cartel” .
