EUROCHAMBRES – Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry

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(1) The main purpose of the association is on the one hand to promote the European integration and on the other hand to identify related actions in favour Chambers of Commerce, their member companies and their national organisations.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Piotr Serafin (Commissioner) and

10 Nov 2025 · Implementation and Simplification Dialogue on the Review of the EU Anti-Fraud Architecture

Response to Circular Economy Act

6 Nov 2025

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Nov 2025 · Meeting with Romanian Chamber of Commerce

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Nov 2025 · European Parliament of Enterprises Event

Meeting with Dóra Dávid (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Nov 2025 · Speech on occasion of the European Parliament of Entreprises

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and

28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM

Meeting with Aleksandra Kordecka (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

24 Oct 2025 · Input on the upcoming Industrial Accelerator Act

Meeting with Leopoldo Rubinacci (Deputy Director-General Trade)

16 Oct 2025 · Exchange of views on recent global economic developments

Meeting with Dóra Dávid (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Oct 2025 · SME priorities in IMCO, 28th regime, Single Market Strategy

Meeting with Sofia Munoz Albarran (Director Trade) and

15 Oct 2025 · Interplay between the trade anti-dumping and anti-subsidies regulations and the EU Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (FSR) to ensure that the two regimes combined deliver their maximal effect, complementing each other, while remaining accessible.

Meeting with Anna Banczyk (Head of Unit Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)

29 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views on the main new initiatives of the unit EMPL.B3: EU VET strategy, EU VET diploma/label and Skills Portability Initiative

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Sept 2025 · General exchange

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views with Eurochambers

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament) and

3 Sept 2025 · LinkedIn/OECD session on skills-first hiring

Meeting with Michael McGrath (Commissioner) and

15 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on simplification, CSDDD, GDPR, the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act and third party litigation funding

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Commissioner) and

11 Jul 2025 · Implementation dialogue on customs legislation - Rules of origin

Response to Cloud and AI Development Act

30 Jun 2025

Meeting with Sofia Munoz Albarran (Director Trade) and American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium

18 Jun 2025 · Debate on "trade and the geopolitical situation" organised by the The Employers' Group of the EESC

Meeting with Eric Ducoulombier (Acting Director Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

17 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on difficulties to open bank accounts in other EU Member States.

Meeting with Marta Kos (Commissioner) and

19 May 2025 · Eurochambres in the context of our business engagement, especially with MS

Meeting with Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President) and

19 May 2025 · Exchange of views on the Commission’s priorities under the current mandate, with an emphasis on simplification and competitiveness.

Meeting with Dóra Dávid (Member of the European Parliament)

15 May 2025 · Simplification, SMEs, EU digital policies

Meeting with Maria Luís Albuquerque (Commissioner) and

13 May 2025 · SIU and Sustainability Omnibus

Meeting with Andreas Schwab (Member of the European Parliament)

7 May 2025 · eCommerce

Meeting with Dan Jørgensen (Commissioner) and

30 Apr 2025 · Competitiveness

Meeting with Michael Mcnamara (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Apr 2025 · SMEs & the AI Act

Meeting with Piotr Serafin (Commissioner) and

24 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on access to EU Funding

Meeting with Idoia Mendia (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

23 Apr 2025 · Meeting with Eurochambers

Meeting with Niels Flemming Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Apr 2025 · Late Payment Regulation

Meeting with Mario Nava (Director-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)

3 Apr 2025 · Eurochambres to present their activities with the Commission and discuss better contribution to the Union of Skills with DG EMPL

Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and

1 Apr 2025 · Plenary Feedback round on previously held GGIA Working Group sessions of 9 different thematical groups regarding Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and

1 Apr 2025 · In the context of the EU-LAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) launches an initiative with a view to develop circular economy value chains in Latin America

Meeting with Anna Athanasopoulou (Director Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and

31 Mar 2025 · Ongoing initiatives on Simplification and Better regulation

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

27 Mar 2025 · Roundtable “Water, Agriculture, and the Food Supply Chain”

Meeting with Henrik Dahl (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

26 Mar 2025 · Simplification

Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

25 Mar 2025 · Omnibus

Meeting with Anna Cavazzini (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

25 Mar 2025 · Priorities for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection for the coming year related in particular to consumer and digital policy.

Meeting with Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (Executive Vice-President) and

24 Mar 2025 · To hear interest representatives’ perspectives on European Commission priorities and their impact on businesses, in particular SMEs.

Meeting with Anna-Maja Henriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2025 · Industry

Meeting with Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Member of the European Parliament) and

19 Mar 2025 · SME intergroup breakfast

Meeting with Piotr Serafin (Commissioner) and

17 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on the future Multiannual Financial Framework and other EU priorities

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and

17 Mar 2025 · Discussion on the future of Europe’s competitiveness and the implementation of the Clean Industrial Deal

Meeting with Alvydas Stancikas (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

12 Mar 2025 · Opening Bank Accounts for Business

Meeting with Michael Wimmer (Director Secretariat-General) and

10 Mar 2025 · To discuss the Commission’s Better Regulation agenda with a specific focus on the SME test.

Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Mar 2025 · Digitalisaton and AI Act implementation

Response to Savings and Investments Union

3 Mar 2025

Meeting with Marie-Hélène Pradines (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

19 Feb 2025 · SME policy, Competitiveness Compass, Commission work programme 2025, Simplification

Response to Single Market Strategy 2025

31 Jan 2025

Meeting with Julien Mousnier (Director Justice and Consumers) and

30 Jan 2025 · Annual Rule of Law Cycle – single market dimension

Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament) and

29 Jan 2025 · Renew Europe Stakeholder Roundtable: “Elevator Pitch for Better Single Market Rules”

Meeting with Adrián Vázquez Lázara (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Jan 2025 · Problems of SMEs and regulatory burdden

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

16 Jan 2025 · Commission Priorities

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

16 Jan 2025 · Commission Priorities

Meeting with Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner) and

15 Jan 2025 · - Priorities of Commissioner's mandate - Presentation of the upcoming Eurochambres strategy (4S: Simplification, Scale, Security, Skills) - Simplification

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

15 Jan 2025 · European Single Market and industrial policy

Meeting with Idoia Mendia (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Jan 2025 · Meeting with Eurochambres

Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion) and

11 Dec 2024 · Revision of the EUs Foreign Direct Investment Screening mechanism

Meeting with Ivars Ijabs (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

15 Nov 2024 · Late payments regulation

Meeting with Iuliu Winkler (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Nov 2024 · European SMEs and their internationalisation processes

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)

8 Apr 2024 · - EU's support to Ukraine - Business environment in Latvia, administrative burden - EU-China relations

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner)

19 Mar 2024 · 2040 target plan

Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament) and

21 Feb 2024 · Stakeholder Roundtable on Late Payment Regulation

Meeting with Martina Dlabajová (Member of the European Parliament) and

13 Feb 2024 · SME Intergroup event

Meeting with Martina Dlabajová (Member of the European Parliament) and BUSINESSEUROPE

23 Jan 2024 · SME Intergroup breakfast

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

11 Jan 2024 · Panelist at Eurochambres launch event: "Report on Single Market Obstacles and Solutions 2024"

Meeting with Martina Dlabajová (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Nov 2023 · SME IG Breakfast

Meeting with Alexandr Vondra (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Nov 2023 · SME

Meeting with Kyriacos Charalambous (Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn), Martina Krobath (Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn)

11 Jul 2023 · MFF revision

Meeting with Kadri Simson (Commissioner) and

4 May 2023 · Electricity market design, European Hydrogen Bank, Net-Zero Industry Act.

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President)

4 May 2023 · Corporate sustainability, due diligence, consumer law and better regulation

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

8 Mar 2023 · Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

19 Dec 2022 · The European Partnership for Integration to support the labour market integration of third-country nationals and people fleeing Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

Meeting with Jan Huitema (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

16 Dec 2022 · Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

8 Nov 2022 · Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence

Meeting with Ilana Cicurel (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Oct 2022 · The Eurochambres Competitiveness Compass : a route to a business-friendly Europe

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

17 Oct 2022 · Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

5 Oct 2022 · Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence

Meeting with Eva Maydell (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

30 Jun 2022 · Chips Act & Chips Joint Undertaking

Meeting with Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

2 Jun 2022 · Single Market

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

29 Mar 2022 · Situation in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees, importance of skills for integration of refugees into the labour market.

Meeting with Josianne Cutajar (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

9 Mar 2022 · Digital Decade Policy Programme

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

18 Feb 2022 · Discuss future implication of Eurochambres to upcoming proposals/policies and encourage their input

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)

9 Feb 2022 · Trade Policy

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Dec 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and BUSINESSEUROPE

18 Nov 2021 · Sustainable corporate governance

Meeting with Samira Rafaela (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Sept 2021 · Online meeting

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)

12 Jul 2021 · Fit for 55

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

4 May 2021 · Exchange on the upcoming update of the Industrial Strategy and its SMEs dimension

Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)

22 Apr 2021 · Capital Markets Union Sustainable Finance Post Covid Recovery

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

21 Apr 2021 · Speech on sustainable food systems

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

14 Apr 2021 · Education skills

Meeting with Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General Environment)

9 Mar 2021 · environment and sustainability agenda of the European Commission

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

4 Nov 2020 · EU's industry strategy and Single Market Enforcement Action Plan.

Meeting with Celine Gauer (Head of Task Force Secretariat-General)

29 Sept 2020 · Recovery and Resilience Facility

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

9 Jun 2020 · Videoconference on skills, Vocational Education and Training (VET) and SURE.

Meeting with Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner)

9 Jun 2020 · Enhancing cooperation with the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership countries.

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President) and

28 May 2020 · COVID-19 relief measures

Meeting with Paolo Gentiloni (Commissioner)

5 May 2020 · Impact of Covid19 on SMEs sector and in commercial ties EU/USA

Meeting with Ylva Johansson (Commissioner) and

5 May 2020 · Migrants’ challenges in the current COVID-19 crisis and their contribution to economic recovery

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President) and

6 Mar 2020 · Industrial Strategy, SMEs strategy, Social Dialogue and Pillar of Social Rights, European Semester

Meeting with Ylva Johansson (Commissioner) and

3 Mar 2020 · Consultations on the New Pact on Migrations

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)

25 Feb 2020 · Global Intelligence Strategy

Meeting with Marius Vascega (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

20 Feb 2020 · Circular Economy Action plan, Decarbonisation of industry, Climate law.

Meeting with Hugo Sobral (Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira)

7 Feb 2020 · Green Deal

Meeting with Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner) and

10 Apr 2019 · education, youth, Erasmus+

Meeting with Timo Pesonen (Acting Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

9 Apr 2019 · Priorities of the next European Commission SM+ discussion on remaining obstacles on free movement if services

Meeting with Stefano Manservisi (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

8 Apr 2019 · Meeting With Dir. A. Abruzzini - Exchange about circular migration and education

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)

6 Mar 2019 · Current trade issues, skills & Erasmus+

Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)

6 Dec 2018 · State of play of EU trade policy

Meeting with Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)

28 Jun 2018 · Declaration of Entrepreneurial Rights

Meeting with Maria Luisa Llano Cardenal (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

22 Jun 2018 · Discussion on the Eurochambres' declaration of Entrepreneurial Rights

Meeting with Ruth Paserman (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen)

22 Jun 2018 · Declaration of Entrepreneurial Rights

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President) and Wirtschaftskammer Österreich

23 May 2018 · Future of Europe and EU trade policy

Meeting with Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen), Risto Artjoki (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

16 Apr 2018 · SMEs and MFF

Meeting with Stefano Manservisi (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

19 Jan 2018 · TVET programme in Sub-Saharan Africa

Meeting with Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen), Marlene Madsen (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

5 Dec 2017 · Multiannual Financial Framework

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

8 Nov 2017 · Discussion on the initiative on the integration of refugees in the European labour market

Response to Revision of the EU SME Definition

3 Jul 2017

Meeting with Jocelyn Fajardo (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

9 Mar 2017 · 'Solid Internal Market' paper

Meeting with Inge Bernaerts (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen)

9 Mar 2017 · Posting of Workers

Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)

9 Mar 2017 · EU-Singapore FTA

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

1 Feb 2017 · European Solidarity Corps

Meeting with Matthias Ruete (Director-General Migration and Home Affairs)

24 Jan 2017 · Prep. Discussion with Social Partners (2nd European Dialogue on Skills and Migration)

Meeting with Julie Fionda (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen)

13 Dec 2016 · Skills Agenda

Meeting with Paolo Berizzi (Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica)

30 Jun 2016 · Involvement of private sector in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Meeting with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner) and

23 May 2016 · Erasmus for young Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs MEP Ambassadors Network launch event

Meeting with Matthias Ruete (Director-General Migration and Home Affairs)

4 Apr 2016 · Discussion on the EUROCHAMBRES ERIAS Action Plan

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President) and

16 Mar 2016 · Discussion focused on the cooperation with EuroChambres on issues like skills and work-based learning and the role of the Chambres in structural reforms at national level. EuroChambres presented its initiative on a

Meeting with Tomasz Husak (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

10 Feb 2016 · Current issues

Meeting with Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General Environment)

14 Dec 2015 · EBTC and Circular Economy

Meeting with Julie Fionda (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen)

12 Nov 2015 · Skills, Apprenticeships

Meeting with Edward Bannerman (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

2 Oct 2015 · European Economic Diplomacy

Meeting with Yvon Slingenberg (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)

16 Sept 2015 · Transposition of the EED among other general energy policy issues

Meeting with Edward Bannerman (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

28 Jul 2015 · Economic Diplomacy

Meeting with Stefano Manservisi (Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini)

30 Jun 2015 · Economic diplomacy

Meeting with Julie Fionda (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen)

28 May 2015 · Skills forecasting

Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska), Tomasz Husak (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

8 Apr 2015 · The future of SBA, SME policy & test, Enterprise Europe Network & Easme, Internationalisation, Comp Council

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)

19 Mar 2015 · Investment Package and SMEs

Meeting with Simona Constantin (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

18 Mar 2015 · Civil law and consumer protection files

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President), Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)

18 Mar 2015 · Better regulation and TTIP

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President)

18 Mar 2015 · Energy Union, general EU issues

Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner)

18 Mar 2015 · Discussion on long-term priorities

Meeting with Patricia Reilly (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

18 Feb 2015 · Skills

Meeting with Aurore Maillet (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella)

11 Feb 2015 · Green Economy

Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner) and

5 Feb 2015 · TTIP and SME's, European Economic Diplomacy

Meeting with Marianne Thyssen (Commissioner) and

5 Feb 2015 · Eurochambres meeting: 'Skills and Apprenticeships'

Meeting with Simona Constantin (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

5 Feb 2015 · Presentation of civil justice priorities

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

5 Feb 2015 · Digital Single Market, e-commerce, eIDAS regulation, eGovernment

Meeting with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner) and

5 Feb 2015 · Priorities for Commissioner Bieńkowska's term

Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner) and

2 Feb 2015 · Speech at Business Alliance for TTIP's Welcome Reception

Meeting with Jakub Cebula (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

9 Jan 2015 · Exchange of views on current topics

Meeting with Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

8 Dec 2014 · SME Policy

Meeting with Jonathan Hill (Commissioner)

4 Dec 2014 · Financial and capital markets policy

Meeting with Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)

4 Dec 2014 · Education

Meeting with Hanna Jahns (Cabinet of Vice-President Johannes Hahn)

21 Nov 2014 · Economic development issues