Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V.
VDMA
Der VDMA vertritt mehr als 3600 meist mittelständische Mitgliedsunternehmen der Investitionsgüterindustrie und ist damit einer der mitgliedsstärksten und bedeutensten Verbände Europas.
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Alexandre Paquot (Director Climate Action) and
18 Nov 2025 · Discuss the role of Fluid Power technologies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Meeting with Felicia Stoica (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
9 Nov 2025 · Revision of the New Legislative Framework (NLF)
Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and
28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM
Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and
28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM.
Meeting with Kilian Gross (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
16 Oct 2025 · AI Act implementation and simplification
Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Commissioner) and
15 Oct 2025 · EU – US relations
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and
15 Oct 2025 · Meeting with VDMA - minutes
Meeting with Iuliu Winkler (Member of the European Parliament)
14 Oct 2025 · EU agricultural sector
Meeting with Felicia Stoica (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
9 Oct 2025 · Revision of the New Legislative Framework (NLF)
Response to Digital Omnibus revising several legislative acts in view of regulatory simplification
8 Oct 2025
Meeting with Henning Ehrenstein (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
24 Sept 2025 · Delegation of German machine building companies (large and small) visiting Bxl with their DE umbrella organization VDMA
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Sept 2025 · Exchange on Clean Industrial Accelerator Act
Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament)
23 Sept 2025 · EU-US trade relations, tariffs
Meeting with Ana Xavier (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
5 Sept 2025 · Introduction of VDMA organisation and exchange of views on various machinery and equipment related matters
Meeting with Matthias Jorgensen (Acting Director Trade)
5 Sept 2025 · EU-US trade relations
Meeting with Eva Valle Lagares (Head of Unit Trade)
17 Jul 2025 · Presentation VDMA’s new Position Paper on China
Meeting with Adam Romanowski (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič)
17 Jul 2025 · EU’s machinery equipment industry
Response to Communication on a Strategy for a European Data Union
15 Jul 2025
Meeting with Barbara Bonvissuto (Director Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
18 Jun 2025 · Current and planned Commission initiatives
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
11 Jun 2025 · Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
Meeting with João Cotrim De Figueiredo (Member of the European Parliament)
2 Jun 2025 · Industrial and trade policy
Meeting with Bjoern Juretzki (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
28 May 2025 · Discussion about the state of play of the Data Act implementation in the German machinery industry
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament) and
14 May 2025 · Water Policy
Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)
13 May 2025 · Development of the transatlantic relations in the context of tariffs escalation
Meeting with Bjoern Juretzki (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
7 May 2025 · Discussion about VDMA’s position on the Data Union Strategy
Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
6 May 2025 · eDeclaration for the posting of workers
Meeting with Raphaël Glucksmann (Member of the European Parliament)
6 May 2025 · International Trade
Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament)
30 Apr 2025 · New Legislative Framework
Meeting with Brigitte Van Den Berg (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
28 Apr 2025 · Edeclaration posting of workers
Meeting with Andreas Schwab (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
14 Apr 2025 · eDeclaration on the posting of workers
Meeting with Hanna Anttilainen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Valentina Schaumburger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)
9 Apr 2025 · Single Market eDeclaration
Meeting with Eva Valle Lagares (Head of Unit Trade)
4 Apr 2025 · EU-China relations
Meeting with Elena Arveras (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque)
17 Mar 2025 · Sustainability Omnibus
Response to European Water Resilience Strategy
4 Mar 2025
Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament)
28 Feb 2025 · EU Energy and industry policy
Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis)
20 Feb 2025 · Simplification
Meeting with Luis Planas Herrera (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)
13 Feb 2025 · Clean Industrial Deal and Circular Economy Act
Meeting with Paolo Garzotti (Acting Director Trade)
13 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on the EU-Mercosur FTA
Meeting with Jan Hendrik Dopheide (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič)
12 Feb 2025 · Introductory meeting / general trade policy
Meeting with Mehdi Hocine (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
12 Feb 2025 · Discussion with VDMA on EU trade relations
Meeting with Bonifacio Garcia Porras (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
11 Feb 2025 · Discussions related to the upcoming omnibus package related to Corporate Sustainability (CSRD, CSDD, EU Taxonomy)
Meeting with Sander Smit (Member of the European Parliament)
7 Feb 2025 · ENVI-general
Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament) and
4 Feb 2025 · EU Energy and industry policy
Meeting with Gabriele Bischoff (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and
24 Jan 2025 · Austausch mit dem Wirtschaftsforum der SPD e.V. zur Revision Eurobetriebsräte
Meeting with Mehdi Hocine (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
21 Jan 2025 · Discussion on VDMA position paper “Fast tracks to simplification”
Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and European Factories of the Future Research Association
16 Jan 2025 · FP10
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 Jens Gieseke (Member of the European Parliament) and Verband der Automobilindustrie
16 Jul 2024 · Austausch zu Umwelt- und Verkehrspolitik
Response to WHITE PAPER on Outbound Investments
17 Apr 2024
Meeting with Jutta Paulus (Member of the European Parliament)
16 Apr 2024 · Umweltpolitische Themen
Meeting with Elina Laurinen (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)
29 Feb 2024 · European machinery industry
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament) and
15 Nov 2023 · “Ramp-Up of Green Fuels for Aviation and Shipping - An Opportunity for Climate Protection, Industrial Policy and International Cooperation” - Panelist
Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
27 Oct 2023 · AI Civil Liability
Meeting with Matthias Ecke (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)
18 Jul 2023 · Kennenlernen; Net Zero Industry Act
Meeting with Raphaël Glucksmann (Member of the European Parliament)
14 Jun 2023 · International Trade
Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
2 May 2023 · AI Liability
Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
9 Mar 2023 · Revision of the Product Liability Directive
Meeting with Nicola Danti (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
27 Feb 2023 · Stakeholder consultation on the Cyber Resilience Act
Meeting with Kevin Keary (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis), Zaneta Vegnere (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
8 Feb 2023 · preferential trade agreements; transatlantic trade relations; importance of conformity assessments for machinery sector
Meeting with Caroline Boeshertz (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
8 Feb 2023 · GCC trade barriers for EU machine exports
Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament)
18 Jan 2023 · Transatlantic trade, Inflation Reduction Act, Due Diligence
Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and
13 Jan 2023 · Standardisation Strategy
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
11 Nov 2022 · Meeting with President Haeusgen to discuss Conformity assessment
Meeting with Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
19 Jul 2022 · Trade relations with Mercosur and with India
Meeting with Elina Melngaile (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
23 Jun 2022 · EU-US trade relations
Meeting with Jens Gieseke (Member of the European Parliament) and Siemens Energy AG
15 Jun 2022 · Austausch zur Industriepolitik
Meeting with Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
3 May 2022 · Industrial and digital policy, digitisation, green transition
Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)
16 Feb 2022 · EU’s digital policy and the role of the mechanical engineering industry in and for the digital transformation
Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Kurt Vandenberghe (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)
12 Jan 2022 · wichtige Rolle des europäischen Maschinenbaus für die digitale und grüne Transformation
Meeting with Lucia Bonova (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
29 Nov 2021 · Data Act
Meeting with Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)
29 Nov 2021 · EU Data Strategy and Data Act
Meeting with Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and CO2 Value Europe AISBL
22 Oct 2021 · CCUS sector development in Europe
Meeting with Simona Constantin (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)
18 Oct 2021 · Sustainable Corporate Governance
Meeting with Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
7 Oct 2021 · Due diligence
Response to Regulation establishing a framework for the use of data in the EU
24 Jun 2021
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
22 Jun 2021 · Exchange of views on: (1) policy framework conditions to overcome the crisis and ensure digital and green transformation; (2) regulatory issues where mechanical engineering has a specific concern (3) due diligence
Response to Ecodesign and energy labelling working plan 2020-2024
2 Jun 2021
Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)
17 May 2021 · Euro 7
Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)
6 May 2021 · Fit for 55 Package
Meeting with Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)
22 Apr 2021 · Sustainable Corporate Governance
Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
31 Mar 2021 · ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative
Meeting with Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean) and
23 Mar 2021 · Renewable fuels to climate neutrality and economic growth
Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and
1 Mar 2021 · European Green Deal
Response to EU strategy for textiles
1 Feb 2021
Meeting with Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
22 Jan 2021 · Discussion on upcoming proposals on sustainable fuels, in particular sustainable aviation fuels
Meeting with Katherine Power (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)
9 Nov 2020 · Taxonomy
Meeting with Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
9 Nov 2020 · Sustainable finance taxonomy
Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
30 Oct 2020 · AI Civil Liability
Response to Legislative framework for the governance of common European data spaces
20 Jul 2020
Meeting with Sarah Nelen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
1 Apr 2020 · Hydrogen and Green Deal
Response to Communication on a new Circular Economy Action Plan
20 Jan 2020
Meeting with Eugenia Dumitriu-Segnana (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit)
13 Jan 2020 · posting of workers
Response to Revision of Directive 2006/42/EC on machinery
5 Feb 2019
Meeting with Piet van Nuffel (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen)
25 Sept 2018 · Posting of workers
Meeting with Michel Barnier (Head of Task Force Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom)
23 Apr 2018 · Meeting with the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU
Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)
5 Apr 2017 · Product regulation and market surveillance in the single market
Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)
10 Jan 2017 · Data localisation, free flow of data
Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)
23 Jun 2016 · Industry 0.4
Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)
11 Apr 2016 · Digitising European Industry
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
23 Feb 2016 · Telco policies
Meeting with Lowri Evans (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
23 Feb 2016 · Dynamics and future challenges for the small and medium sized enterprises, including digitalisation.
Meeting with Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)
24 Nov 2015 · TTIP
Meeting with Christian Linder (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič) and
11 Sept 2015 · Energy Union Strategy with a forward-looking climate policy
Meeting with Christian Linder (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)
3 Jun 2015 · Energy Union; energy efficiency; investment
Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)
23 Apr 2015 · Industry 4.0
Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)
16 Apr 2015 · Present the association - intro meeting
Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)
16 Apr 2015 · Introductory meeting
Meeting with Karl-Friedrich Falkenberg (Director-General Environment)
19 Mar 2015 · Waste Management and Recycling Technologies
Meeting with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner)
9 Mar 2015 · Introductory meeting
Meeting with Renate Nikolay (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
27 Feb 2015 · Digital Single Market
Meeting with Jean-Luc Demarty (Director-General Trade)
25 Feb 2015 · Ongoing Trade Negotiations
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
25 Feb 2015 · DSM