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DuPont de Nemours International SARL

DuPont is a global innovation leader producing technology-based materials and solutions for electronics, transportation, construction, water, healthcare and worker safety.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Marc Angel (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Dec 2025 · Personal Protective Equipment

Meeting with Herald Ruijters (Deputy Director-General Defence Industry and Space) and

27 Nov 2025 · Resilience of the supply chain in defence

Meeting with Isabel Wiseler-Lima (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2025 · DuPont's policy priorities in Luxembourg and the EU

Meeting with Martine Kemp (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2025 · Meeting on Biomass regulation

DuPont urges EU recognition for mass balance recycling methods

6 Nov 2025
Topic — The European Commission is consulting on the new Circular Economy Act.
Message — DuPont calls for recognizing mass balance for recycling and harmonizing producer responsibility rules. They also seek standards for industrial water and wastewater recovery.123
Why — Standardization reduces compliance burdens and avoids costly regulatory reviews for medical products.45
Impact — National authorities lose the power to request additional data from local companies.6
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Meeting with Benjamin Hartmann (Cabinet of Commissioner Andrius Kubilius)

3 Nov 2025 · Presentation of the company.

Meeting with Tilly Metz (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Oct 2025 · site visit

DuPont backs EU corporate electric vehicle targets with incentives

4 Sept 2025
Topic — A proposal setting minimum zero-emission vehicle requirements for European corporate car fleets.
Message — DuPont supports introducing zero-emission targets for company cars at the national level. They demand these mandates be conditional on financial subsidies and improved charging infrastructure.12
Why — Mandatory fleet electrification boosts market demand for DuPont’s specialized automotive adhesives and materials.3
Impact — Fleet operators face higher initial costs and operational delays due to grid bottlenecks.45
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Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament) and BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e. V.

10 Jul 2025 · EU Water Policy

Meeting with Anna Panagopoulou (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas), Simone Ritzek-Seidl (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas)

4 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on the automotive action plan.

Response to Communication on the EU Stockpiling Strategy

9 May 2025

DuPont welcomes the Crisis preparedness - new EU stockpiling strategy initiative and declares being open for collaboration. DuPont is a global innovation leader with technology-based materials including areas of personal protection and health care packaging. The DuPont team has gained significant experience in diverse preparedness programs coordinated at different levels of governmental organizations like avian flu, Ebola, SARS-CoV-2 and Fukushima disaster. DuPont has participated in pan-national and regional tenders and is ready to share its experience. DuPont believes that several parameters including the following should be considered when outlining the Crisis preparedness - new EU stockpiling strategy. Private business partners qualifying for cooperation with the EU and/or its member states should: - Have experience with the legislative framework for PPE and medical devices - Have a manufacturing base to produce both ingredients and finished products within the applicable region either directly or through business partners, in any case should be in full control of the supply chain - Be able to adapt production output to account for surges in demand and ensure European supply security, as stockpiling can never be sufficient as was proven during SARS-COV-2 - Offer personal protective equipment and other safety products with versatile protection against a broad range of risks (e.g. chemical, biological and particulates) while also having a long shelf life (>5 or preferably up to 10 years) to ensure that stockpiles remain effective a long time after purchase.
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DuPont calls for EU industrial water reuse mandate

3 Mar 2025
Topic — The European Commission is developing a multi-annual strategy for water security.
Message — DuPont recommends adopting the water reuse principle as a strategy pillar. They suggest expanding regulations to include industrial reuse and mineral recovery.12
Why — Scaling circular water solutions expands the market for DuPont’s purification technologies.3
Impact — Industrial operators may face higher capital costs to implement mandatory reuse technologies.4
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Response to Delegated act on primarily used components under the Net-Zero Industry Act

20 Feb 2025

DuPont is deeply committed to contributing to the decarbonisation and climate neutrality ambitions of the European Union. We manufacture different high-performance and specialised materials that are used in the technologies that have been recognised by the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA). Since the main objective of the NZIA is to substantially increase the EUs manufacturing capabilities of net-zero technologies, the act includes in its scope the entire supply chain of those technologies. In line with the criteria set by the Regulation and the draft Delegated Act, our high-performance and specialised materials qualify as primarily used components for numerous net-zero technologies as they are: 1. Commercially available; 2. Specific; 3. Always primarily used; and 4. Essential for the manufacturing of the final technologies Therefore, we would like to submit additional information to this public consultation to supplement the list of primarily used components, with a view to ensure that critical parts of the supply chain of net-zero technologies are included in the annex and contribute to the uptake of critical net-zero technologies. This relates in particular to the following specialised materials: 1. Ion exchange resins and absorbents, that play a significant role in the purification of water and the production of so-called ultra-pure water: Ion exchange resins as well as ultra-pure water a. are essential in the manufacturing process of solar photovoltaic modules, b. function as the feedstock for hydrogen electrolysers, c. provide for the necessary high levels of purity within the coolant loop for lithium-ion battery electric and fuels cell electric systems. d. are used in the water and wastewater management to remove impurities in the water loops of nuclear plants. 2. Polyimide parts and shapes: Their physicochemical properties make them resistant to high and low temperatures, creep, wear, hydrogen embrittlement and other chemicals, which are indispensable for compressing, transporting and storing of hydrogen. 3. Fluoropolymers, which are critical to carbon capture and storage technologies. Their intrinsic characteristics make them resistant to amine in CO2 absorption and rapid gas decompression as well as compatible with sCO2. 4. Specialty lubricants, which protect electric vehicle components from electrical erosion, oxidation and aluminium corrosion. Further details are provided in the attachment.
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Meeting with Ivars Ijabs (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Microsoft Corporation and

13 Dec 2024 · European defence industry programme (EDIP)

Meeting with Jonás Fernández (Member of the European Parliament) and European Savings and Retail Banking Group

10 Dec 2024 · Economic priorities

Meeting with Tilly Metz (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Dec 2024 · Introduction and PFAS

Meeting with Marc Angel (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Sept 2024 · Waste Framework Directive

Meeting with Christophe Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Sept 2024 · Safety textile production

Meeting with Marc Angel (Member of the European Parliament)

13 May 2024 · Industrial Policy, Plant Visit

Meeting with Arunas Ribokas (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union and

6 Feb 2024 · water resilience

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič) and American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union and

6 Feb 2024 · Water resilience

Meeting with Marc Angel (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Sept 2023 · PPWR

Meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) and

4 Jul 2023 · To discuss with PFAS producers and users on the proposal for a REACH restriction on PFAS.

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

26 Jun 2023 · Overview of chemicals industry situation, transition pathway for chemicals industry, REACH revision

DuPont urges harmonized rules and medical packaging exemptions

24 Apr 2023
Topic — The European Commission is reviewing packaging requirements to improve recycling and reduce waste.
Message — DuPont supports a Regulation to ensure harmonization and avoid fragmented national rules. They request extending medical packaging exemptions to include raw materials and components. They also propose digital labelling and calculating recycled content targets as an average.123
Why — Harmonized rules and flexible targets would reduce administrative burdens and compliance costs.45
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Meeting with Elena Montani (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

21 Mar 2023 · To discuss the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability

Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and

1 Feb 2021 · Discussion on EU initiatives to green the aviation sector

Response to Revision of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive

8 Sept 2020

DuPont Water Solutions (a business division of DuPont) welcomes the revision of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and its objective of strengthening existing EU legislation for reducing the adverse effects of waste water and making the existing legislation fit for decades to come. We believe that a more ambitious UWWTD will address many modern water quality challenges and as it needs to: - create incentives to develop a sustainable water cycle along the lines of circular economy; - strengthen the water – energy nexus at water level; - enable the use of resilient, low maintenance water systems. We believe the UWWTD should unlock the value of wastewater by: o Securing Water Supply: Urban wastewater always available in each and every city, town or village unrelated to water scarcity or other challenges; o Saving Fresh Water: Using reclaimed water would save significant volumes of freshwater that would otherwise be wasted and protect the biodiversity; o Generating Energy: Energy and heat from wastewater could be used as a sustainable source of energy in order to reduce CO2 emissions; o Recovering Nutrients: Finite nutrients such as phosphorus are crucial for agriculture and can be reused in a meaningful manner (e.g. as fertilizer). Water sits at the intersection of necessity and scarcity – there is a finite amount of water for growing global needs. Transitioning to a circular economy is necessary for society to move to a level of sustainable consumption. o Realizing a circular economy could globally divert up to 340 million tons of waste from landfill each year. (SOURCE: Ellen McArthur Foundation) o By applying circular practices in the near term across the consumer sector 30% more materials could be recovered. (SOURCE: Ellen McArthur Foundation) Water reuse as it applies to circular economy helps create a world where water is not a scarce resource, but a well-managed one, sustained by advances in separation and purification technologies. Materials formerly considered to be “waste” have the potential to be turned into new products and have other applications. Advancing sustainable water management and a true circular economy requires more than industry-leading technology – it requires public-private partnerships, and public-private government partnerships. We must develop alliances and partnerships with entities beyond our direct value chain to more effectively manage water resources. The private sector can help navigate the complexity of integrating a reuse system into a facility and asses the needs and requirements involved to make it efficient and cost-effective; however, success will require all stakeholders of our water systems to be involved: o Local governments and water agencies play a critical role in whether manufacturing facilities adopt wastewater reuse systems. The influence of agencies ranges from cost incentive structures to regulation in discharge requirements. o Non-government organizations play an important role in educating regulators, businesses, and the greater community about the true value of water and the risks associated with not implementing more sustainable solutions to manage it. Through Public-Private Partnerships in particular, we can help create a more sustainable water future – “the right water, at the right time, in the right place.” o These partnerships need the commitment from both the Public (Governments, NGOs, etc.) and Private sectors to ensure the correct technology and financing is in place. With increasing demands placed on limited freshwater resources, we must move beyond a linear economy model where we “take, make and dispose” of raw materials, to a circular approach in which raw materials are “reduced, reused and reclaimed.”
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Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

28 Jun 2019 · the future challenges in industrial policy, sustainability and innovation

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

26 Jun 2019 · Sustainability and innovation, and presentation of DuPont business strategy based on SDGs

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and EuropaBio and Syngenta Crop Protection AG

12 Mar 2019 · GMO import approvals and new breeding techniques

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and McLarty Associates

11 Mar 2019 · Sustainable use of pesticides

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

22 May 2018 · Agri Issues

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

27 Feb 2018 · EU regulation of plant protection products

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

5 Sept 2017 · Merger Control

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

26 Jan 2017 · Agroscience

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

26 Jan 2017 · Biofuels

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

19 Jan 2017 · Bio Fuels

Response to Criteria to identify endocrine disruptors for plant protection products

28 Jul 2016

On 15 June 2016, the European Commission published its proposal for regulatory criteria for endocrine disrupting chemicals. DuPont believes that the criteria are not acceptable in their current form because the Commission largely ignores the regulatory consequences of the criteria as proposed. Indeed, identifying a crop protection or biocidal active substance as ‘an endocrine disruptor’ leads, in principle, to a community-wide prohibition, regardless of whether it can be used safely or not. By adopting the WHO definition as the sole identifier of substances to be regulated as endocrine disruptors (EDs), the Commission ignores the wide potency range that exists across chemicals, whether synthetic or natural, and makes no attempt to keep substances of low concern (low potency) out of the regulated category. Potency differences can be considerable. For example the estrogenic potency of diethylstilbestrol (DES) is 25 million (25,000,000) times greater than for benzylparaben. Such a reality must not be overlooked out of political convenience. In a system in which intrinsic properties (hazards) lead to prohibition, taking into account how much of a substance is required to cause an adverse effect (potency) is the only practical way to avoid the loss of numerous products of low concern. DuPont does not understand why potency, which is the underlying principle of the whole hazard-based classification and labelling system, is unacceptable when evaluating EDs on a hazard basis. This is ignoring that some substances are intrinsically less hazardous than others, a reality that a ‘catch-all’ definition does not capture. DuPont is also concerned about the Commission’s communication on numbers of substances identified as EDs during the impact assessment. In its assessment, the Commission states that 26 out of 348 crop protection active substances screened (7%) meet the WHO definition for an ED. The message from the impact assessment that most readers will remember is that using the WHO definition alone as ED regulatory criterion has relatively low overall impact. While the screening methodology is acceptable, the communication (not necessarily the detailed results) deceitfully omits that, in a majority of cases, information on the mode of action and the causal link was missing. This information is now formally required for crop protection products. Therefore actual numbers of substances meeting the WHO definition will be higher, a majority of which of low/no concern. Considerations on weight of evidence, specificity, human relevance and negligible risk are welcome but do not make up for the ill-designed criteria. DuPont strongly recommends that the Commission amends its proposal to include potency as one of the criteria for categorizing a substance as an ED, in order to ensure substances of low concern are not characterized as EDs by the criteria. By doing so, this will prevent the unnecessary prohibition of use of pesticide active substances and biocides that do not pose a risk to human health or the environment. We also strongly recommend that the Commission replace the hazard-based approach in favor of a risk-based system used by other regulatory agencies around the world, such as the US EPA. In summary, DuPont does not support the currently proposed criteria for defining an ED in the context of the pesticides and biocides legislation. Elements of hazard characterization, potency in particular, must be included and are critical to distinguishing substances of real concern to human health and the environment relative to those which are of no concern. The Commission needs to move away from a hazard-based approval system to one which is based on the principles of risk assessment (hazard and exposure).
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Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

27 Jun 2016 · New breeding techniques, innovation in seeds

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner) and

25 Feb 2016 · Meeting with Mr Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Advanced Biofuels CEOs

Meeting with Carlos Moedas (Commissioner) and UPM-Kymmene Oyj and

25 Feb 2016 · Meeting with CEOs of European countries commited to the development of low carbon transport fuels

Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)

4 Aug 2015 · GM products

Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)

28 Apr 2015 · 1507 Maize and current situation on GMO legislation

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

11 Mar 2015 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and BASF SE and

12 Feb 2015 · Digital Single Market, Innovation