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Bpifrance

Bpifrance is France's public investment bank, supporting entrepreneurs and companies from startups to large firms through financing, guarantees and equity investments.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Andreas Schwarz (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva)

21 Nov 2025 · EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy and ScaleUp Europe Fund

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Nov 2025 · ECF

Bpifrance urges EU to fund diverse circular business models

5 Nov 2025
Topic — The consultation concerns the Circular Economy Act to promote sustainable production and decarbonisation.
Message — Bpifrance advocates for financial support for refurbishment and remanufacturing alongside recycling. They propose tailored financial schemes and advisory services to help businesses navigate transition costs.12
Why — Bpifrance would secure a pivotal role in managing and deploying EU-targeted financial instruments.3
Impact — Primary raw material producers face reduced demand as fiscal incentives favor secondary materials.45
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Meeting with Malgorzata Nikowska (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

5 Nov 2025 · Exchange on insights and experiences in Digital Transformation for SMEs

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

4 Nov 2025 · Presentation by BPI France on their Advisory Services Department and discussion on the role of BPI France in the Enterprise Europe Network and in the InvestEU Advisory Hub

Bpifrance urges predictable funding rules for next EU budget

28 Oct 2025
Topic — The consultation covers the design and implementation of the next EU long-term budget.
Message — Bpifrance requests predictable milestones and secure payment conditions to encourage innovation. They warn that retrospective fund recovery creates uncertainty and deters investment. They propose simplifying audits for entities that already passed specific assessments.123
Why — Lowering financial risk and administrative burdens would help the bank deploy equity funding.4
Impact — Experimental projects might lose support if performance requirements remain too rigid.5
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Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Commissioner) and

8 Sept 2025 · Trade policy

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Sept 2025 · Battery value chain

Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall) and TotalEnergies SE and

22 Jul 2025 · EU environmental policies

Response to Proposal for an amendment to the InvestEU Regulation.

15 Jul 2025

Please see attached document.
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Meeting with Rasmus Nordqvist (Member of the European Parliament) and Intesa Sanpaolo and

25 Jun 2025 · Closed roundtable on financing the circular economy

Meeting with Jean-David Malo (Acting Director Research and Innovation) and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti s.p.a.

11 Jun 2025 · Future of the EIC and specificities of Italian stakeholders

Meeting with François Kalfon (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Jun 2025 · Priorités TRAN-IMCO 2024-2029

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Commissioner) and

27 May 2025 · Landscape of public banks in the EU, competitiveness and simplification.

Meeting with Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner) and

14 May 2025 · Access to capital for startups and scaleups

Meeting with Lucilla Sioli (Director Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

14 May 2025 · Exchange of views on the EU AI strategy, including the recently published AI Continent Action Plan and the development of the Apply AI Strategy

Meeting with Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner) and

14 May 2025 · Access to capital for startups and scaleups

Meeting with Julie Rechagneux (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and CAISSE DES DEPOTS

28 Apr 2025 · Discussion autour du règlement de simplification InvestEU

Response to EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy

17 Mar 2025

The feedback from Bpifrance, France's Innovation agency and public business bank, is summarized in the attached document.
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Response to Savings and Investments Union

7 Mar 2025

In the attached document, you will find Bpifrance's proposals for the Savings and Investments Union
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Meeting with Philippe Chantraine (Head of Unit Mobility and Transport)

5 Mar 2025 · Transport investments

Meeting with Olivier Guersent (Director-General Competition)

24 Feb 2025 · Implementation of art21 of the GBR on risk finance

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

24 Jan 2025 · Investissements et simplification

Meeting with Maarten Verwey (Director-General Economic and Financial Affairs)

11 Dec 2024 · InvestEU implementing partner

Meeting with Christophe Grudler (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Dec 2024 · Echanges autour des actualités européennes du groupe

Meeting with Christophe Gomart (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Dec 2024 · Financement de la défense

Meeting with Aurore Lalucq (Member of the European Parliament) and CAISSE DES DEPOTS and La Banque Postale

27 Nov 2024 · Retail Investment Strategy (RIS), FIDA, Invest EU

Meeting with Hélder Sousa Silva (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Nov 2024 · Institutional Presentation

Meeting with Karlo Ressler (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Nov 2024 · EU Budget - European financial instruments

Bpifrance urges EU to distinguish climate debt in reporting

5 Nov 2024
Topic — Establishing a voluntary portfolio framework to increase lending for building renovations.
Message — Bpifrance recommends providing technical advice and separating 'climate debt' from 'productive debt' in reports. They also advocate for regulatory adjustments and offering cheaper interest rates.123
Why — This would allow the bank to increase lending while protecting borrowers' credit ratings.45
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Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

2 Apr 2024 · Speech at Bpifrance Annual Reception.

Meeting with Pierre Larrouturou (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Jan 2024 · Rencontre avec des représentants de la BPI

Meeting with Stephanie Riso (Director-General Budget)

6 Dec 2023 · Discussion on STEP and budgetary implementation

Meeting with Olivier Guersent (Director-General Competition)

6 Dec 2023 · Futur scoreboard aides d’Etat 2023, mesures possibles à venir en soutien aux petites ETI

Meeting with Markus Schulte (Cabinet of Commissioner Iliana Ivanova)

26 Oct 2023 · EU Innovation policy

Response to Mid-term evaluation of the ERDF, the CF and the JTF 2021-2027

9 Oct 2023

Voir le document de réponse Bpifrance à la consultation européenne en pièce-jointe.
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Meeting with Marc Lemaitre (Director-General Research and Innovation)

27 Apr 2023 · Innovation ecosystems, Horizon Europe, EIC Accelerator

Meeting with Antoine Colombani (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

27 Apr 2023 · Net Zero Industry Act; green transition and SMEs

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

28 Sept 2022 · Financing the clean energy transition

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

2 Feb 2022 · Discuss FR Presidency priorities and Bpifrance actions, strategy to support the industry

Response to Commission Delegated Regulation on taxonomy-alignment of undertakings reporting non-financial information

2 Jun 2021

Dear Madam, dear Sir, Please find attached the contribution of Bpifrance to the consultation. Kind regards, __ About Bpifrance: Bpifrance is the French public business bank supporting businesses at all stages of their development through loans, guarantees and equity as well as enhanced backing for innovation and internationalisation. With its 50 regional offices, it is a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs in each region. Bpifrance also takes part in the European public debate and is involved in the management of several European financing programmes (InvestEU, InnovFin, ERDF, Eurostars, etc.). It is under the direct supervision of the European Central Bank.
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Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament)

20 May 2021 · Green finance

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

13 Apr 2021 · Discuss the Taxonomy Regulation establishing a framework for sustainable investment in Europe and its implementation challenges, especially for SMEs.

Meeting with Olivier Guersent (Director-General Competition)

4 Mar 2021 · Conditions for granting support to undertakings after 2021

Meeting with Stephanie Riso (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen), Valeria Miceli (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

5 Feb 2021 · rôle des banques publiques en Europe et de leur business model, plan relance européen

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

18 Dec 2020 · The EIC and the role of the National innovation agencies

Meeting with Aliénor Margerit (Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni)

15 Sept 2020 · Recovery and Investment (webex together with CAB BRETON representatives)

Meeting with Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

15 Jul 2020 · The EU recovery plan and the EU taxonomy

Meeting with Elisa Ferreira (Commissioner) and

9 Jul 2020 · Presentation of the activities of Bpifrance

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Jun 2020 · Green finance/Green recovery

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

29 Apr 2020 · Introductory meeting and courtesy call on NPBI, InvestEU & SMEs

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner)

1 Apr 2020 · COVID 19 economic impact

Meeting with Dara Murphy (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel), Vasco Ferreira (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

1 Apr 2020 · Horizon Europe, the EIC and the role of national innovation agencies.

Meeting with Paolo Gentiloni (Commissioner)

1 Apr 2020 · Covid19 impact on investments sector, also with regional angle

Response to European Partnership for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises

26 Aug 2019

Feedback of the Inception Impact Assessment are the following: 1) We aim to implement an Institutionalised European Partnership, based on article 185 TFEU. We expect the leverage effect to be higher and a complementarity with EIC activities: for example, an interesting option would be that comparable EIC business support services are offered both to EIC and Eurostars SME beneficiaries. 2) We would like to privilege efforts towards synchronization rather than harmonization. It appears more important and efficient. We consider that a fast and common start of the project is much more important for project participants. Applicants to Eurostars must be able to rapidly initiate their projects as the latter are key strategic ones with high leverage impact. As Eurostars is looking at supporting future EU tech champions, the programme should deliver a funding support in short time. 3) We believe that greater flexibility would give impactful actions. Indeed, a better flexibility will allow us to use different funding sources and instruments which will maintain eligibility for the EU contribution to leverage public funding. For instance, it could make sense to examine the potential to implement instruments other than grants, typically repayable advances or loans with preferred interest rates, should the EU contribution still be provided: it may be of interest for financing good R&D projects beyond the grant funding capacity of a Member State. 4) Eurostars should give the possibility to cooperate with countries outside EU for a tangible internationalization as it is the case now, but it should also provide the opportunity to cooperate with new partners consistent with EUREKA internationalization approach. It could widen the geographical coverage. Indeed, we consider important to continue with Eurostars which is funded by Member States and EU to be able to financially support business growth and scale-up worldwide. Eurostars program keeps an interesting success rate. This would go along a simplification of the Eureka regulatory corpus to facilitate international participation.
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Meeting with Florentine Hopmeier (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and European Association of Public Banks and Funding agencies AISBL and

26 Feb 2018 · The role of National Promotional Institutions in the next MFF

Response to Revision of the EU SME Definition

30 Jun 2017

As a National Promotional Bank (NPB), Bpifrance performs a public mission of fostering economic development, especially by contributing to SMEs growth. Thus, it supports any initiative from the European Commission to create favorable framework conditions for SMEs. In particular, it very much welcomes the upcoming public consultation on specific issues regarding the evaluation of the SME definition and potential needs for adaptations. More than 99% of European businesses are SMEs. There is a constant lack of mid and large-caps with a strong growth potential in employment and the ability to compete with European and Asian competitors. Indeed, mid and large-caps only represent 0,2% of EU businesses but gather more than 30% of persons employed. While the recovery remains fragile and the growth leverages still need to be enhanced, it appears necessary to assess the potential positive impact that would have a revision of the current SME definition. As it stands, the definition could hinder the expansion of SMEs beyond the provided thresholds. In particular, unlisted small mid-caps from 250 to 500 employees remain excluded from the scope of the SME European definition. It reduces the level of support they can benefit from the EU. Also, they have to comply with stronger requirements or face larger fees for EU administrative compliance. It penalizes their development and the overall European economy. In this field, it should be kept it mind that American and Japanese definitions provide higher thresholds in terms of staff headcount, turnover or balance sheet total. Furthermore, even the EIF considers enterprises up to 500 employees as SMEs for its investment operations. For those reasons, it would be valuable to launch a study at EU level on the impact of the SME definition on the businesses development.
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Meeting with Olivier Guersent (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

29 Apr 2016 · Les questions liées à la régulation bancaire européenne; L'Union des marchés de capitaux et ses prochaines étapes ; Le plan d'investissement pour l'Europe: contribution de Bpifrance à date et propositions d'évolution.

Meeting with Carlos Moedas (Commissioner)

29 Apr 2016 · Financial instruments and innovation

Meeting with Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner)

10 Jun 2015 · Plan Juncker

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)

3 Jun 2015 · Investment initiative