EuropaBio

EuropaBio is Europe's largest and most influential biotech industry group.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Circular Economy Act

5 Nov 2025

Meeting with Kristin Schreiber (Director Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and

3 Sept 2025 · Attitudes towards food biotechnology

Meeting with Klaus Berend (Director Health and Food Safety), Rainer Becker (Director Health and Food Safety) and

17 Jul 2025 · EU Biotech Act

Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

8 Jul 2025 · Critical Medicines Act

Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Jul 2025 · Discussion on Bioindustries

Meeting with Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner) and

17 Jun 2025 · EU biotech policy

Meeting with Patricia Reilly (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

12 Jun 2025 · to follow

Meeting with Marc Lemaitre (Director-General Research and Innovation) and

4 Jun 2025 · 2nd dialogue with representatives from across the life sciences to review the progress of the IHI, to discuss opportunities to optimise the current partnership and to exchange views on the future of EU research and innovation programmes.

Meeting with Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner) and

3 Jun 2025 · Life sciences

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

26 May 2025 · The Water Resilience Strategy and the upcoming, updated Bioeconomy Strategy

Meeting with Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner) and

20 May 2025 · EU biotech policy

Meeting with Olivier Chastel (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

15 May 2025 · Biotech - Politique de santé de l'UE

Meeting with Rainer Becker (Director Health and Food Safety)

13 May 2025 · Patient BioForum (event hosted by MEP Andras Tivadar Kulja)

Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)

8 May 2025 · Biotech policy

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

10 Apr 2025 · Impact of US tariffs

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

10 Apr 2025 · Impact of US tariffs

Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Fresenius SE & Co.KGaA

27 Mar 2025 · Biotech and Biomanufacturing

Meeting with Morten Løkkegaard (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

25 Mar 2025 · Biotechnology

Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Danish Industry

14 Mar 2025 · European health policy

Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Mar 2025 · Life sciences and biotech policy

Meeting with Rainer Becker (Director Health and Food Safety)

6 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on the Biotech Act

Meeting with Vilija Sysaite (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

4 Mar 2025 · Bioeconomy, Biotech

Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Feb 2025 · European health policy

Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

27 Feb 2025 · Biotech

Response to Critical Medicines Act

26 Feb 2025

Meeting with Ilaria Flores Martin (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall), Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall), Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

24 Feb 2025 · linkages between Commissioner’s portfolio area and the bioindustry

Meeting with Elisa Roller (Director Secretariat-General)

21 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on initiatives that will have an impact on the biotechnology sector like the Competitiveness Compass, Clean Industrial Deal, the Pharmaceutical Package, the Critical Medicines Act, the New Genomic Techniques proposal or the Biotechn

Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Feb 2025 · Life sciences and biotech policy

Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

11 Feb 2025 · Biotech

Response to Single Market Strategy 2025

30 Jan 2025

Meeting with Biljana Borzan (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Jan 2025 · Biotechnology across the 2025-2029

Meeting with András Tivadar Kulja (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Jan 2025 · Patient-centric and future proof regulatory framework in healthcare

Meeting with Eszter Lakos (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Jan 2025 · Biotechnology policy

Meeting with Anna Strolenberg (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Dec 2024 · Biotechnology in food and agriculture

Meeting with Stefan Köhler (Member of the European Parliament) and Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks e.V.

5 Nov 2024 · Politischer Austausch

Meeting with András Tivadar Kulja (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Oct 2024 · Biotechnology industry challanges

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Sept 2024 · Nieuw Genomische Technieken (NGTs) en wasmiddelen

Meeting with Eszter Lakos (Member of the European Parliament) and European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations

25 Sept 2024 · Public health

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

30 Apr 2024 · Presentatiion of EuropaBio study ‘Impact of the EU's General Pharmaceutical Legislation on Europe’s innovation ecosystem and biotechnology companies’ and to request a meeting

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

22 Jan 2024 · Directive on Medicinal products for human use

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

8 Nov 2023 · Detergents regulation, biotechnology

Meeting with Juozas Olekas (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

7 Nov 2023 · New plant breeding techniques

Meeting with Tom Berendsen (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Oct 2023 · Speaker at plenary opening of European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Bioeconomy (EFIB)

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Merck

11 Oct 2023 · Directive on Medicinal products for human use

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

26 Sept 2023 · New Genomic Techniques

Meeting with Tomislav Sokol (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Patients' Forum (EPF)

20 Sept 2023 · Pharmaceutical legislation

Meeting with José Manuel Fernandes (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

7 Sept 2023 · STEP

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

4 Jul 2023 · Directive on Medicinal products for human use

Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

12 May 2023 · Resolution on EU action to combat antimicrobial resistance

Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Apr 2023 · Läkemedelsstrategin - SMEs

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

22 Mar 2023 · Pharmaceutical package, biopharma

Meeting with Kevin Keary (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and

6 Mar 2023 · Pharma package

Meeting with Simeona Manova (Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira)

16 Feb 2023 · Presentation of a cross-sector Biomanufacturing Platform

Meeting with Giorgos Rossides (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides), Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)

25 Oct 2022 · Exchange of views on the upcoming reform of the pharmaceutical legislation

Meeting with Susana Solís Pérez (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

7 Oct 2022 · EHDS

Meeting with Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President) and

8 Apr 2021 · Health Union

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

4 Mar 2021 · New Europa Bio Director-General Dr. Claire Skentelbery, and new Chair of the Board Andrew Topen, wish to introduce themselves to Director-General Kerstin Jorna and hear DG GROW’s priorities, to see where EuropaBio could potentially assist.

Meeting with Giorgos Rossides (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)

24 Sept 2020 · Exchange of views on the upcoming pharmaceutical strategy

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

23 Jun 2020 · EuropaBio raises their concerns on the industrial strategy should inform the recovery; how industrial biotechnology and life science contribute to the Green Deal, competitiveness of industrial value chains and global level playing field

Meeting with Irena Joveva (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Feb 2020 · Bio production in Europe

Meeting with Dara Murphy (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

27 Jan 2020 · Future of European Bio Industries

Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

22 Jan 2020 · Business discussion

Meeting with Anne Bucher (Director-General Health and Food Safety)

9 Sept 2019 · discussion around bio pharmaceutical development and how to maintain the strength of this sector

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

4 Sept 2019 · Science based decision making. New biotechnologies

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

10 Jul 2019 · Courtesy meeting to introduce themselves and present their priorities

Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

23 Apr 2019 · R&I in Biotechnology

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and

12 Mar 2019 · GMO import approvals and new breeding techniques

Meeting with Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

12 Oct 2018 · Introductory meeting with the new SG

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

15 Jun 2018 · HTA

Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger)

18 May 2018 · SPC manufacturing waiver

Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

25 Apr 2018 · Business discussion

Meeting with Leila Fernandez-Stembridge (Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici)

10 Apr 2018 · IP regime generic manufacturers in the pharmaceutical industry

Meeting with Robert Schröder (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)

23 Jan 2018 · Update of the Bioeconomy strategy

Meeting with Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

11 Jan 2018 · Discussion on future EuropaBio events

Meeting with Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan), Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan), Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

29 Aug 2017 · GMO import authorization process including several dossiers pending Commission authorization (following recent appeal committee votes), EC proposal to change comitology rules , Debate around the legal status of New Plant Breeding Techniques including genome editing

Meeting with Giulia Del Brenna (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)

24 Aug 2017 · Introduction of the New Secretary General

Meeting with Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

13 Jul 2017 · Introductory meeting of EuropaBio's new Secretary General

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

17 Nov 2016 · Roundtable on the future of the General Food Law Regulation

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

27 Jun 2016 · New breeding techniques, innovation in seeds

Meeting with Xavier Prats Monné (Director-General Health and Food Safety)

7 Dec 2015 · Health and food aspect of biotech

Meeting with Lowri Evans (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

21 Oct 2015 · current challenges for the biotech industry

Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

16 Jul 2015 · Biotechnology Industry

Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and JOŽE TRONTELJ INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS AND VALUES

8 Jul 2015 · Digital Publishing

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

23 Jun 2015 · Participation of Commissioner at event

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

2 Mar 2015 · Healthcare (personalised medicine which will be a priority of the LU Presidency, Biosimilars, Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs), Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and GMO'S

Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

17 Feb 2015 · Health and JCJ Goals

Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and

12 Feb 2015 · Digital Single Market, Innovation

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President) and

3 Feb 2015 · Bioeconomy

Meeting with Carlos Moedas (Commissioner) and

2 Feb 2015 · Meeting with the European Bioeconomy Alliance on the Bioeconomy Strategy

Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)

21 Jan 2015 · GMO

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

14 Jan 2015 · Meeting with Introductory meeting w. Europabio to discuss the biotechnology industry in Europe (healthcare, agri-food and bioeconomy/industrial biotechnology field)

Meeting with Heidi Jern (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

14 Jan 2015 · Bioindustries and biotechnology

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

10 Dec 2014 · Biotechnology

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

9 Dec 2014 · Preparation of Commissioner's participation to future Europabio event, personalised medicines; GMOs.

Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)

5 Dec 2014 · New transparency rules and pending GM authorisations