European Recycling Industries' Confederation

EuRIC

EuRIC’s main objectives are to promote and represent, in Brussels, the interests of the European recovery recycling industries and of recyclers.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Francois Wakenhut (Head of Unit Environment) and Federation française des entreprises du recyclage

12 Nov 2025 · Courtesy meeting requested to introduce FEDERREC and establish contact in the context of the preparation of the Circular Economy Act

Response to Circular Economy Act

6 Nov 2025

Meeting with François Kalfon (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Oct 2025 · Circular economy act, Plan acier et Fin de vie des véhicules

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

3 Oct 2025 · Circular economy and chemicals

Meeting with Stefano Soro (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and

29 Sept 2025 · Discussion of several issues that European plastics value chain is facing.

Meeting with Eric Mamer (Director-General Environment) and

3 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views about the upcoming Circular Economy Act and its impact on the recycling market in Europe

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Commissioner) and

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

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

2 Jul 2025 · EU Clean Industrial Dialogue on Circularity

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Laia Pinos Mataro (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and Bureau of International Recycling

1 Jul 2025 · European and global recyclers in the context of EU circularity transition

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner)

20 Jun 2025 · Visit to the sorting plant Evadam with EuRIC Exchange of views on Commissions work on textiles such as upcoming Circular Economy Act and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR.)

Meeting with Aleksandra Kordecka (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Laia Pinos Mataro (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and Federation française des entreprises du recyclage

30 Apr 2025 · Steel and Metals Action Plan and End of Life Vehicles (ELV)

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

24 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on circular economy and the recycling industry

Meeting with Grégory Allione (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Apr 2025 · Visio FEDEREC et EURIC

Meeting with Vita Jukne (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

11 Apr 2025 · Revision of REACH

Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Apr 2025 · Export restrictions, scrap, waste, IED, recycled content provisions, Waste shipment regulation

Meeting with Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Environment) and NGO Shipbreaking Platform

2 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on ship recycling

Meeting with Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Environment) and FEAD

1 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on the textile sector and EPR schemes

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 Peter Van Kemseke (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

14 Mar 2025 · on Steel sector

Meeting with Piotr Müller (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

3 Mar 2025 · Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles

Meeting with João Cotrim De Figueiredo (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Feb 2025 · Recycling industry and automotive sector

Meeting with Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Environment) and

13 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on increasing the competitiveness of EU plastic recycling industry

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

7 Feb 2025 · End-of-life of vehicles Regulation

Meeting with Pär Holmgren (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Feb 2025 · Circular economy and recycling

Meeting with Ingeborg Ter Laak (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Jan 2025 · Recycling, circular economy

Meeting with Michele Piergiovanni (Acting Director Competition)

29 Jan 2025 · Issues related to the European recycling industry

Meeting with Benedetta Scuderi (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Jan 2025 · Steel/Scrap

Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament) and

15 Oct 2024 · Circular Economy and waste management

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament) and

4 Oct 2024 · Clean Industrial Deal

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

26 Sept 2024 · Video message with "decarbonization" as main topic

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

4 Jun 2024 · lower the carbon footprint of steelmaking

Meeting with Michael Bloss (Member of the European Parliament) and

2 May 2024 · Green Industrial Deal

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Mar 2024 · Discussion of current challenges facing the European Steel sector attended by private industry as well as Ministers and official representatives of Italy, Romania, Poland, Czechia, Belgium, Hungary and Luxembourg

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Mar 2024 · Clean Transition Dialogue with the Steel Sector

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

13 Nov 2023 · Waste Shipment Regulation

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

27 Sept 2023 · Waste Shipment Regulation

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

15 Jun 2023 · will follow

Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

28 Mar 2023 · Packaging Waste

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

20 Dec 2022 · Waste Shipment Regulation

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

22 Aug 2022 · Waste Shipment Regulation

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

10 Nov 2021 · Waste shipment legislation

Meeting with Chris Uregian (Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas), Maria-Myrto Kanellopoulou (Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas)

22 Jun 2021 · Waste Shipment Regulation impact on the recycling sector

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

13 Apr 2021 · Circular Economy Action Plan

Response to EU strategy for textiles

2 Feb 2021

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)

23 Jun 2020 · European Green Deal, circular economy and waste management

Meeting with Sebastien Paquot (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella) and FEDEREC - Federation des Entreprises du Recyclage

7 Feb 2019 · Waste Directive

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

21 Jan 2019 · discussion on interface between chemical, product and waste legislation

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

21 Jan 2019 · _Circular Economy_Interface between waste, products and chemicals legislation

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

21 Jan 2019 · Interface between waste, products and chemicals

Meeting with Sebastien Paquot (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella) and Fédération Nationale des Activités de Dépollution et de l'Environnement

11 Dec 2018 · Single Use Plastics

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

1 Jun 2017 · Circular Economy

Meeting with Sarah Nelen (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

25 Feb 2015 · Circular Economy

Meeting with Aurore Maillet (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella), Heidi Jern (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

25 Feb 2015 · Circular Economy

Meeting with Telmo Baltazar (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker) and

23 Jan 2015 · Circular Economy