Meeting with Sylvain Giraud (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety) and European Potato Trade Association

27 Nov 2025 · Exchange of views on the import of potato seeds from the UK in the EU

Meeting with Dorota Denning (Cabinet of Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis)

20 Oct 2025 · simplification

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EC) 1107/2009, Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, Regulation (EU) 528/2012, Regulation (EC) 1831/2003, Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, Regulation (EC) No 853/2004, Regulation 1099/2009, Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and Directive 98/58/EC, as regards simplifying and clarifying food and feed safety requirements

13 Oct 2025

Meeting with Irene Sacristan Sanchez (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety) and 5 other interest representatives

9 Oct 2025 · Exchange of views on the state of play of the interinstitutional negotiations on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques (NGT proposal)

Meeting with Irene Sacristan Sanchez (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety)

6 Oct 2025 · Exchange on the Commission proposal on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques (NGT proposal) and interplay with plant breeding and procedures under the Plant Reproductive Material (PRM) legislation.

Meeting with Antonella Rossetti (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen) and KWS SAAT SE Co. KGaA

18 Sept 2025 · Update on the on-going negotiations of Commission legislative proposals on new genomic techniques (NGTs) and on plant reproductive material (PRM)

Response to Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: Evaluation of Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 on EU fertilising products

17 Sept 2025

Meeting with Flavio Facioni (Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi) and KWS SAAT SE Co. KGaA

16 Sept 2025 · Simplification, NGTs, PRM

Meeting with Klaus Berend (Director Health and Food Safety) and 1 other attendee

7 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on the state of play of the interinstitutional negotiations on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques (NGT proposal) – Patent-related aspects.

Meeting with Sylvain Giraud (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety) and Plantum

2 Jul 2025 · New developments in the breeding of potato varieties

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

30 Jun 2025 · NGT

Response to Communication on a new EU Bioeconomy strategy: Towards a Circular, Regenerative and Competitive Bioeconomy

20 Jun 2025

Response to Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and Council to foster biotechnology in Europe

10 Jun 2025

Meeting with Lena Düpont (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Jun 2025 · Competitive and sustainable farming in Europe: Improving access and transparency on patented traits in plant breeding

Meeting with Sylvain Giraud (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety)

12 May 2025 · Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on plant reproductive material (PRM).

Meeting with Stefan Köhler (Member of the European Parliament)

7 May 2025 · Politischer Austausch

Meeting with Silvia Sardone (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

6 May 2025 · ENVI

Meeting with Irene Sacristan Sanchez (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety) and 4 other interest representatives

25 Mar 2025 · Policy developments relevant to European seed sector (proposal on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques, NGTs)

Response to Evaluation of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994 on Community plant variety rights

13 Mar 2025

Meeting with Sylvain Giraud (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety)

13 Mar 2025 · Meeting with Euroseeds on

Meeting with Valérie Hayer (Member of the European Parliament) and Corteva Agriscience International SARL

12 Mar 2025 · NGT

Response to COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… repealing Commission Regulation (EU) No 547/2011 of 8 June 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards labelling requirements for plant protection products

30 Jan 2025

Meeting with Gheorghe Cârciu (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

29 Jan 2025 · Granting equivalence with EU requirements to Moldova and Ukraine as regards field inspections and production of seeds

Meeting with Daniel Buda (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

27 Jan 2025 · Granting equivalence with EU requirements to Moldova and Ukraine as regards field inspections and production of seed

Meeting with Veronika Vrecionová (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

22 Jan 2025 · New Genomic Techniques

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

22 Jan 2025 · NGT policy

Meeting with Herbert Dorfmann (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

17 Dec 2024 · development of the dossier on plant reproductive material

Meeting with Veronika Vrecionová (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

13 Nov 2024 · Equivalence Moldova and Ukraine (Production of seeds), future of plant breeding and seed sector

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

18 Sept 2024 · Agriculture and NGT policy

Meeting with Herbert Dorfmann (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Sept 2024 · Discussion over seeds-related files

Meeting with Mireia Borrás Pabón (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Sept 2024 · AGRI

Meeting with Anne Sander (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Apr 2024 · Agriculture

Meeting with Herbert Dorfmann (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

12 Apr 2024 · PRM

Meeting with Herbert Dorfmann (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

18 Mar 2024 · PRM

Meeting with Norbert Lins (Member of the European Parliament) and KWS SAAT SE Co. KGaA

12 Feb 2024 · Dinner on Policy Developments in Seed Sector

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

22 Jan 2024 · AGRI Dialogue

Meeting with Clara Aguilera (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Jan 2024 · Draft Regukation plant reproductive material

Meeting with Tom Vandenkendelaere (Member of the European Parliament) and 2 other interest representatives

8 Jan 2024 · new genomic techniques, seed production

Meeting with Norbert Lins (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Dec 2023 · Saatgutverordnung

Meeting with Jérémy Decerle (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Dec 2023 · Nouvelles téchniques génomiques

Meeting with Bert-Jan Ruissen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

13 Dec 2023 · Plant Reproductive Material

Meeting with Anne Sander (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Dec 2023 · Agriculture

Meeting with Irène Tolleret (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Dec 2023 · Semences

Meeting with Isabel Carvalhais (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

12 Dec 2023 · Plant Reprodutive Material

Meeting with Camilla Laureti (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Dec 2023 · dossier 2023

Meeting with Herbert Dorfmann (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

30 Nov 2023 · PRM

Meeting with Erik Poulsen (Member of the European Parliament) and The American Seed Trade Association

27 Nov 2023 · New Genomic Techniques

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

22 Nov 2023 · New plant breeding techniques

Meeting with Veronika Vrecionová (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

22 Nov 2023 · NGT file

Meeting with Bert-Jan Ruissen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

22 Nov 2023 · Plant Reproductive Material

Meeting with César Luena (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Nov 2023 · Reglamento sobre nuevas técnicas genómicas

Meeting with Isabel Carvalhais (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

21 Nov 2023 · Plant Reproductive Material

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and 7 other interest representatives

26 Oct 2023 · Table ronde avec les représentants de l'industrie sur la proposition de règlement sur les nouveaux OGM

Meeting with Herbert Dorfmann (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

11 Oct 2023 · NGTs

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

26 Sept 2023 · New Genomic Techniques

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625

22 Sept 2023

Response to Legislative initiative to ensure that hazardous chemicals banned in the European Union are not produced for export

5 Jul 2023

Meeting with Clara Aguilera (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion) and 4 other interest representatives

4 Jul 2023 · Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation

Meeting with Norbert Lins (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

25 Apr 2023 · New Genomic Techniques Proposal

Meeting with Veronika Vrecionová (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Apr 2023 · New breeding techniques

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... as regards the content and format of the records of plant protection products kept by professional users pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

3 Nov 2022

Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski) and 5 other interest representatives

11 Oct 2022 · To discuss the contribution of innovative plant breeding to food security and sustainability to achieve the green deal objectives

Meeting with Joanna Stawowy (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski), Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski) and 4 other attendees

11 Oct 2022 · To discuss the contribution of innovative plant breeding to food security and sustainability to achieve the green deal objectives

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

21 Sept 2022 · Novel Genomic Technique

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

14 Sept 2022

Meeting with Maciej Golubiewski (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

27 Jul 2022 · Novel Genomic Techniques

Meeting with Giorgos Rossides (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides), Ines Prainsack (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides), Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)

16 Jun 2022 · VTC meeting on Plant reproductive material and NGTs.

Response to Revision of the EU Pollinators Initiative

8 Jun 2022

Meeting with Norbert Lins (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair) and 3 other interest representatives

30 Mar 2022 · Seed Sector

Response to Proposal for a DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Decision 2003/17/EC as regards its period of application and as regards the equivalence of field inspections carried out in Bolivia on cereal seed-producing crops and oil and fibre plant seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of cereal seed and oil and fibre plant seed produced in Bolivia

24 Mar 2022

Response to Proposal for a Directive on protecting, sustainably managing and restoring EU soils - Soil Health Law

16 Mar 2022

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... on measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann & Kotthoff 1914) Nouioui et al. 2018

11 Jan 2022

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... on measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) Perc.

11 Jan 2022

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... on measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Globodera pallida (Stone) Behrens and Globodera rostochiensis (Wollenweber) Behrens

11 Jan 2022

Meeting with Maciej Golubiewski (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

4 Jan 2022 · Exchange of information

Meeting with Elina Melngaile (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and The American Seed Trade Association

16 Dec 2021 · Transatlantic seed trade in the context of the Trade & Technology Council

Response to COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) …/… amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 as regards specific criteria for the approval of active substances that are micro-organisms

23 Nov 2021

Response to Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an EU framework for a Union sustainable food system

22 Oct 2021

Response to Proposal for Directives (or Regulations) of the European Parliament and of the Council amending/repealing Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 1998/56/EC, 1999/105/EC, 2002/53/EC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC, 2002/57/EC, 2008/72/EC and 2008/90/EC

13 Jul 2021

Response to Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the extension of the term of Community plant variety rights for the species asparagus and the species groups flower bulbs, woody small fruits and woody ornamentals

26 Mar 2021

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Action Plan for the development of organic production in the European Union. On the way to 2030.

23 Oct 2020

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions "Making the most of EU’s innovative potential - An Intellectual Property action plan in support of the EU’s industrial competitiveness"

13 Aug 2020

Response to Revision of Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides with accompanying Impact Assessment

6 Aug 2020

Response to Proposal for a DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Decision 2003/17/EC as regards the equivalence of field inspections carried out in Ukraine on cereal seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of cereal seed produced in Ukraine

14 Apr 2020

Response to Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output

8 Apr 2020

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the Farm to Fork Strategy for a Sustainable Food System

13 Mar 2020

Meeting with Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)

7 Feb 2020 · Discussion on food safety

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DIRECTIVE (EU) …/… amending Council Directives 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC and 2002/57/EC, Commission Directives 93/49/EEC and 93/61/EEC and Implementing Directives 2014/21/EU and 2014/98/EU as regards pests of plants on seeds and other plant reproductive material

10 Sept 2019

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019

10 Sept 2019

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

20 Mar 2019 · general presentation

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and 1 other attendee

9 Jul 2018 · Innovation in seeds

Response to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... setting out the format specifications of the plant passport for movement within the Union territory and the plant passport for introduction into, and movement within, a protected zone

27 Oct 2017

Response to Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the recognition of equivalence of Brazilian provisions with regard to certification of fodder plant and cereal seed pursuant to Article 16(1) of Directives 66/401/EEC and 66/402/EEC and Moldovan provisions with regard to certification of cereal, oil and fibre and vegetable seed pursuant to Article 16(1) of Directive 66/402/EEC, Article 37(1) of Directive 2002/55/EC and Article 20(1) of Directive 2002/57/EC, amending Council Decision 2003/17/EC of 16 December 2002 on the equivalence of field inspections carried out in third countries on seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of seed produced in third countries.

21 Aug 2017

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and 7 other attendees

27 Jun 2016 · New breeding techniques, innovation in seeds