Confederation of European Paper Industries

Cepi

Cepi is the European association representing the paper industry.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Sabine Pelsser (Head of Unit Health and Food Safety)

12 Nov 2025 · Discussion on the topic of FCM regulation revision

Meeting with Astrid Van Mierlo (Head of Unit Taxation and Customs Union) and European Panel Federation

6 Nov 2025 · Meeting with EPF and CEPI

Meeting with Alexandre Paquot (Director Climate Action)

26 Sept 2025 · Role of the pulp and paper industry in the green transition, bioeconomy, Innovation Fund calls and applications

Meeting with Aleksandra Baranska (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera Rodríguez), Terhi Lehtonen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera Rodríguez)

25 Sept 2025 · ETS, indirect cost compensation

Response to European Grid Package

31 Jul 2025

Meeting with Alexandre Paquot (Director Climate Action)

8 Jul 2025 · Industrial decarbonisation of the pulp and paper industry

Meeting with Célia Dejond (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra), Matthieu Moulonguet (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

8 Jul 2025 · Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and Emissions Trading System

Meeting with Elisa Roller (Director Secretariat-General)

11 Jun 2025 · The new Bioeconomy Strategy and related initiatives

Meeting with Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Environment)

5 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on Bioeconomy Strategy

Meeting with Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Environment) and

22 May 2025 · Discuss with interested stakeholders the practical aspects and challenges of ensuring compliance with Art.5(5) of the PPWR (concerning PFAS limits in food-contact packaging)

Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament)

15 May 2025 · EU Energy and industry policy

Meeting with Koen Van De Casteele (Director Competition)

13 May 2025 · Exchange of views on the new State aid rules being developed to accompany the Clean Industrial Deal.

Meeting with Barbara Bonvissuto (Director Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

12 May 2025 · Exchange of views on the forest-based bioeconomy

Meeting with Heiko Kunst (Head of Unit Climate Action), Mette Koefoed Quinn (Head of Unit Climate Action) and

15 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on the revision of the EU Emission Trading System and challenges faced by ceramic, glass and pulp and paper sectors.

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 Johannes Ten Broeke (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

14 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on the upcoming Clean Industrial Deal

Meeting with Giorgio Gori (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

5 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on resolution on energy intensive industries with the Alliance of energy-intensive industries

Meeting with Stefan Köhler (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and WWF European Policy Programme

30 Jan 2025 · Politischer Austausch

Meeting with Niels Flemming Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Jan 2025 · Decarbonization of Industry

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

23 Jul 2024 · Industrial policy

Meeting with Tom Berendsen (Member of the European Parliament) and

23 Jul 2024 · Industrial policy

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and

4 Jun 2024 · Discussion on implementation of the EU Deforestation regulation

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

21 May 2024 · EU Deforestation

Meeting with Laura Ballarín Cereza (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Feb 2024 · Industrial policy

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

14 Feb 2024 · Directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

2 Feb 2024 · Roundtable with associations of industrial users

Meeting with Dino Toljan (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

23 Jan 2024 · 2040 targets and the role of the PPI in the decarbonization

Meeting with Nils Torvalds (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

22 Jan 2024 · PPWR

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

27 Nov 2023 · How to stop rust belt spreading in Europe?

Meeting with Peter Jahr (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Nov 2023 · Green Claims Richtlinie

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

26 Oct 2023 · Directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)

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

27 Sept 2023 · Directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)

Meeting with Petros Kokkalis (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

25 Sept 2023 · Green Claims

Meeting with Cyrus Engerer (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

31 Aug 2023 · Green Claims Directive

Meeting with Francisco Guerreiro (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Jul 2023 · Green Claims Directive

Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

31 May 2023 · To exchange views on their policy recommendations and how they address the EU’s current sustainability challenges, while unlocking future opportunities to drive European competitiveness and resiliency.

Meeting with Jordi Solé (Member of the European Parliament)

23 May 2023 · Cross-sectoral industry coalition and the EU’s current sustainability challenges

Meeting with Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Antoine Colombani (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

26 Apr 2023 · Reinvest 2050

Meeting with Barbara Glowacka (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson)

26 Apr 2023 · To present the recent investments in energy efficiency improvements and switching to renewable energy.

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

10 Mar 2023 · Green Deal Industrial Plan: integration between energy, climate, raw materials, technology, skills, funding, and trade will be crucial for moving to net zero.

Meeting with Luisa Regimenti (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and

8 Mar 2023 · PPWR

Meeting with Mauri Pekkarinen (Member of the European Parliament) and Finnish Forest Industries Federation (Metsäteollisuus ry)

8 Mar 2023 · Breakfast meeting on ESPR

Meeting with Katherine Power (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness) and Finnish Forest Industries Federation (Metsäteollisuus ry)

8 Feb 2023 · Taxonomy and Forestry

Meeting with Anne Sander (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

7 Dec 2022 · Nature Restoration Law

Meeting with Caroline Boeshertz (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

22 Nov 2022 · Draft proposal of a Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR)

Meeting with Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)

18 Nov 2022 · VTC meeting on food packaging

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

26 Oct 2022 · Circular economy and the revision of the EU packaging rules

Meeting with Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

15 Jul 2022 · Deforestation Regulation and other forestry related issues.

Meeting with Michal Wiezik (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

11 Jul 2022 · Industrial Emissions Directive

Meeting with Gints Freimanis (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and

7 Jul 2022 · Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

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

24 Jun 2022 · Nature Restoration Law proposal

Meeting with Elena Montani (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and European Confederation of Woodworking Industries

24 Jun 2022 · to discuss the Nature Restoration Law proposal

Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski) and

30 May 2022 · Meeting with Fibre Packaging Europe

Meeting with Dārta Tentere (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

6 May 2022 · Taxonomy

Meeting with Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

17 Mar 2022 · Meeting on European Commission´s proposal for a regulation on deforestation-free products

Meeting with Petri Sarvamaa (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Mar 2022 · Deforestation report

Meeting with Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and

11 Jan 2022 · Sustainable Products Initiative

Meeting with Katherine Power (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

16 Dec 2021 · Green Deal Agenda & Sustainable finance

Meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) and

30 Nov 2021 · To present commitments of CEPI in the context of the green transition, and in particular a new CEPI Sustainable Product Pledge; also to discuss the EU Green Deal agenda in general.

Meeting with Caroline Boeshertz (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and

23 Nov 2021 · EU paper industry views on the Green Deal strategy and industry’s vision for 2030

Meeting with Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

15 Nov 2021 · forestry

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and

8 Nov 2021 · Forest based industries

Meeting with Cyrus Engerer (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Oct 2021 · Emissions Trading System and Paper

Meeting with Kadri Simson (Commissioner) and

14 Oct 2021 · High energy prices and how this is affecting the competitiveness of European companies in the energy intensive sectors.

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

12 Oct 2021 · Contribution of the sector to the European Green Deal

Meeting with Caroline Boeshertz (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis), Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis), Sofja Ribkina (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and

17 Sept 2021 · Upcoming Russian export ban on logs

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

11 Jun 2021 · European Green Deal and the preparation of the EU Forest Strategy

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

7 Jun 2021 · Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

27 May 2021 · Sustainable products initiative, Fit for 55

Meeting with Gints Freimanis (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and

3 May 2021 · Carbon Borden Adjustment Mechanism

Meeting with Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

22 Apr 2021 · Exchange on the upcoming revision of the EU ETS and the position of the pulp and paper industry

Meeting with Kadri Simson (Commissioner) and

15 Apr 2021 · Presentation of CEPI 2030 Industry Manifesto. Discussion on energy efficiency and renewable energy pathways for the paper industry.

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

24 Mar 2021 · Commissioner Breton meeting with CEOs from Energy Intensive Industries on Industrial strategy & fit for 55.

Response to EU strategy for textiles

1 Feb 2021

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and European Paper Packaging Alliance

28 Oct 2020 · circular economy and single-use products

Meeting with Camilla Bursi (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius), Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

8 Jul 2020 · VC meeting to discuss Forest-Based industries’ contribution to the Green Recovery agenda, EU Biodiversity strategy 2030, European Commission guidance on how to implement the SUPD

Meeting with Jocelyn Fajardo (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

17 May 2019 · Road transport issues

Meeting with Risto Artjoki (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Metsäliitto Cooperative

5 Mar 2019 · Bioeconomy

Meeting with Dominique Ristori (Director-General Energy) and

23 Nov 2018 · clean energy transition and decarbonisation

Meeting with Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

2 Oct 2017 · Export ban of timber from Ukraine

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

7 Feb 2017 · EU Ecolabels

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

7 Feb 2017 · EU Ecolabels

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

24 Jan 2017 · Biomass

Meeting with Juho Romakkaniemi (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

18 Oct 2016 · Industrial emissions

Meeting with Juergen Mueller (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella)

18 Oct 2016 · Air Quality, LCP BREF

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

13 Apr 2016 · Bio-based Large Combustion Plant

Meeting with Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

4 Mar 2016 · Anti dumping measures on coated woodfree paper

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

29 Feb 2016 · EU harmonisation measures on food contact materials

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

24 Nov 2015 · Non-harmonised food contact materials

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

27 Oct 2015 · Presentation of the sector, industrial policy, innovation, energy, circular economy.

Meeting with Maria Asenius (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström), Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström) and The Navigator Company, S.A.

30 Sept 2015 · Anti-dumping investigation

Meeting with Maria Asenius (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström), Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström), Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström) and

17 Sept 2015 · AEGIS presenting new study on consequences of granting MES to China

Meeting with Edward Bannerman (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and

17 Sept 2015 · EU-China trade relations

Meeting with Bernd Martenczuk (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and

17 Sept 2015 · Market economy status for China

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

17 Sept 2015 · Presentation of a study

Meeting with Peteris Ustubs (Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini) and

3 Sept 2015 · AEGIS Europe and MES China

Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)

31 Aug 2015 · Digitisation of industry

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

17 Jul 2015 · High level group of energy intensive industries

Meeting with Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

6 Jul 2015 · Paper industry trade cases

Meeting with Juho Romakkaniemi (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Metsäliitto Cooperative

30 Jun 2015 · Energy Union

Meeting with Jocelyn Fajardo (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

2 Jun 2015 · Meeting with CEPI

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

1 Jun 2015 · Circular Economy and Energy Union

Meeting with Peter Van Kemseke (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

18 May 2015 · ETS

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan) and Metsäliitto Cooperative

24 Apr 2015 · Bio economy

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner) and Metsäliitto Cooperative

24 Apr 2015 · Bio Economy

Meeting with Juraj Nociar (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

14 Apr 2015 · Energy Union

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)

13 Apr 2015 · Paper Industry; Competitiveness

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

13 Apr 2015 · Bioeconomy

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

16 Mar 2015 · Circular Economy

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

16 Mar 2015 · Circular Economy

Meeting with Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

5 Mar 2015 · Situation and developments in the European Paper Industry

Meeting with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner) and

23 Feb 2015 · Paper industry challenges

Meeting with Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner) and

19 Feb 2015 · Competitiviness, Energy Union and ETS review

Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska), Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

9 Feb 2015 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Aura Salla (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

3 Feb 2015 · Paper Industry

Meeting with Silvia Bartolini (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)

13 Jan 2015 · NER 400

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

16 Dec 2014 · Forestry