EuropaBio
EuropaBio is Europe's largest and most influential biotech industry group.
Lobbying Activity
Response to Circular Economy Act
5 Nov 2025
Meeting with Kristin Schreiber (Director Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and
3 Sept 2025 · Attitudes towards food biotechnology
Meeting with Klaus Berend (Director Health and Food Safety), Rainer Becker (Director Health and Food Safety) and
17 Jul 2025 · EU Biotech Act
Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
8 Jul 2025 · Critical Medicines Act
Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament)
7 Jul 2025 · Discussion on Bioindustries
Meeting with Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner) and
17 Jun 2025 · EU biotech policy
Meeting with Patricia Reilly (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)
12 Jun 2025 · to follow
Meeting with Marc Lemaitre (Director-General Research and Innovation) and
4 Jun 2025 · 2nd dialogue with representatives from across the life sciences to review the progress of the IHI, to discuss opportunities to optimise the current partnership and to exchange views on the future of EU research and innovation programmes.
Response to Apply AI Strategy: strengthening the AI continent
3 Jun 2025
Meeting with Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner) and
3 Jun 2025 · Life sciences
Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)
26 May 2025 · The Water Resilience Strategy and the upcoming, updated Bioeconomy Strategy
Meeting with Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner) and
20 May 2025 · EU biotech policy
Meeting with Olivier Chastel (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
15 May 2025 · Biotech - Politique de santé de l'UE
Meeting with Rainer Becker (Director Health and Food Safety)
13 May 2025 · Patient BioForum (event hosted by MEP Andras Tivadar Kulja)
Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)
8 May 2025 · Biotech policy
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 Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Fresenius SE & Co.KGaA
27 Mar 2025 · Biotech and Biomanufacturing
Meeting with Morten Løkkegaard (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
25 Mar 2025 · Biotechnology
Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Danish Industry
14 Mar 2025 · European health policy
Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)
6 Mar 2025 · Life sciences and biotech policy
Meeting with Rainer Becker (Director Health and Food Safety)
6 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on the Biotech Act
Meeting with Vilija Sysaite (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)
4 Mar 2025 · Bioeconomy, Biotech
Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)
27 Feb 2025 · European health policy
Meeting with Hildegard Bentele (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
27 Feb 2025 · Biotech
Response to Critical Medicines Act
26 Feb 2025
Meeting with Ilaria Flores Martin (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall), Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall), Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)
24 Feb 2025 · linkages between Commissioner’s portfolio area and the bioindustry
Meeting with Elisa Roller (Director Secretariat-General)
21 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on initiatives that will have an impact on the biotechnology sector like the Competitiveness Compass, Clean Industrial Deal, the Pharmaceutical Package, the Critical Medicines Act, the New Genomic Techniques proposal or the Biotechn
Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)
11 Feb 2025 · Life sciences and biotech policy
Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
11 Feb 2025 · Biotech
Response to Single Market Strategy 2025
30 Jan 2025
Meeting with Biljana Borzan (Member of the European Parliament)
28 Jan 2025 · Biotechnology across the 2025-2029
Meeting with András Tivadar Kulja (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Jan 2025 · Patient-centric and future proof regulatory framework in healthcare
Meeting with Eszter Lakos (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Jan 2025 · Biotechnology policy
Meeting with Anna Strolenberg (Member of the European Parliament)
4 Dec 2024 · Biotechnology in food and agriculture
Meeting with Stefan Köhler (Member of the European Parliament) and Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks e.V.
5 Nov 2024 · Politischer Austausch
Meeting with András Tivadar Kulja (Member of the European Parliament)
31 Oct 2024 · Biotechnology industry challanges
Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament)
26 Sept 2024 · Nieuw Genomische Technieken (NGTs) en wasmiddelen
Meeting with Eszter Lakos (Member of the European Parliament) and European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
25 Sept 2024 · Public health
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
30 Apr 2024 · Presentatiion of EuropaBio study ‘Impact of the EU's General Pharmaceutical Legislation on Europe’s innovation ecosystem and biotechnology companies’ and to request a meeting
Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
22 Jan 2024 · Directive on Medicinal products for human use
Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
8 Nov 2023 · Detergents regulation, biotechnology
Meeting with Juozas Olekas (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)
7 Nov 2023 · New plant breeding techniques
Meeting with Tom Berendsen (Member of the European Parliament)
24 Oct 2023 · Speaker at plenary opening of European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Bioeconomy (EFIB)
Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Merck
11 Oct 2023 · Directive on Medicinal products for human use
Meeting with Jan Huitema (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Deutscher Bauernverband
26 Sept 2023 · New Genomic Techniques
Meeting with Tomislav Sokol (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Patients' Forum (EPF)
20 Sept 2023 · Pharmaceutical legislation
Meeting with José Manuel Fernandes (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
7 Sept 2023 · STEP
Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
4 Jul 2023 · Directive on Medicinal products for human use
Meeting with Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)
12 May 2023 · Resolution on EU action to combat antimicrobial resistance
Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament)
12 Apr 2023 · Läkemedelsstrategin - SMEs
Meeting with Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Stina Soewarta (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
22 Mar 2023 · Pharmaceutical package, biopharma
Meeting with Kevin Keary (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and
6 Mar 2023 · Pharma package
Meeting with Simeona Manova (Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira)
16 Feb 2023 · Presentation of a cross-sector Biomanufacturing Platform
Meeting with Giorgos Rossides (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides), Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)
25 Oct 2022 · Exchange of views on the upcoming reform of the pharmaceutical legislation
Meeting with Susana Solís Pérez (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
7 Oct 2022 · EHDS
Response to Commission Communication on a new European Innovation Agenda
10 May 2022
Response to Evaluation and Revision of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 and Directive 2001/83/EC
27 Apr 2021
Meeting with Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President) and
8 Apr 2021 · Health Union
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
4 Mar 2021 · New Europa Bio Director-General Dr. Claire Skentelbery, and new Chair of the Board Andrew Topen, wish to introduce themselves to Director-General Kerstin Jorna and hear DG GROW’s priorities, to see where EuropaBio could potentially assist.
Response to Proposal for an EP and Council Regulation on orphan and paediatric medicinal products
6 Jan 2021
Meeting with Giorgos Rossides (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)
24 Sept 2020 · Exchange of views on the upcoming pharmaceutical strategy
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
23 Jun 2020 · EuropaBio raises their concerns on the industrial strategy should inform the recovery; how industrial biotechnology and life science contribute to the Green Deal, competitiveness of industrial value chains and global level playing field
Response to Chemicals strategy for sustainability
19 Jun 2020
Meeting with Irena Joveva (Member of the European Parliament)
12 Feb 2020 · Bio production in Europe
Meeting with Dara Murphy (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)
27 Jan 2020 · Future of European Bio Industries
Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)
22 Jan 2020 · Business discussion
Response to Communication on a new Circular Economy Action Plan
20 Jan 2020
Meeting with Anne Bucher (Director-General Health and Food Safety)
9 Sept 2019 · discussion around bio pharmaceutical development and how to maintain the strength of this sector
Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and
4 Sept 2019 · Science based decision making. New biotechnologies
Meeting with Timo Pesonen (Acting Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
10 Jul 2019 · Courtesy meeting to introduce themselves and present their priorities
Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)
23 Apr 2019 · R&I in Biotechnology
Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and
12 Mar 2019 · GMO import approvals and new breeding techniques
Meeting with Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)
12 Oct 2018 · Introductory meeting with the new SG
Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and
15 Jun 2018 · HTA
Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger)
18 May 2018 · SPC manufacturing waiver
Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)
25 Apr 2018 · Business discussion
Meeting with Leila Fernandez-Stembridge (Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici)
10 Apr 2018 · IP regime generic manufacturers in the pharmaceutical industry
Response to Communication from the Commission updating the 2012 European Bioeconomy Strategy
19 Mar 2018
Meeting with Robert Schröder (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)
23 Jan 2018 · Update of the Bioeconomy strategy
Meeting with Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)
11 Jan 2018 · Discussion on future EuropaBio events
Meeting with Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan), Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan), Dermot Ryan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)
29 Aug 2017 · GMO import authorization process including several dossiers pending Commission authorization (following recent appeal committee votes), EC proposal to change comitology rules , Debate around the legal status of New Plant Breeding Techniques including genome editing
Meeting with Giulia Del Brenna (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)
24 Aug 2017 · Introduction of the New Secretary General
Meeting with Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)
13 Jul 2017 · Introductory meeting of EuropaBio's new Secretary General
Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and
17 Nov 2016 · Roundtable on the future of the General Food Law Regulation
Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and
27 Jun 2016 · New breeding techniques, innovation in seeds
Meeting with Xavier Prats Monné (Director-General Health and Food Safety)
7 Dec 2015 · Health and food aspect of biotech
Meeting with Lowri Evans (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
21 Oct 2015 · current challenges for the biotech industry
Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)
16 Jul 2015 · Biotechnology Industry
Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and JOŽE TRONTELJ INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS AND VALUES
8 Jul 2015 · Digital Publishing
Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and
23 Jun 2015 · Participation of Commissioner at event
Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and
2 Mar 2015 · Healthcare (personalised medicine which will be a priority of the LU Presidency, Biosimilars, Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs), Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and GMO'S
Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
17 Feb 2015 · Health and JCJ Goals
Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and
12 Feb 2015 · Digital Single Market, Innovation
Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President) and
3 Feb 2015 · Bioeconomy
Meeting with Carlos Moedas (Commissioner) and
2 Feb 2015 · Meeting with the European Bioeconomy Alliance on the Bioeconomy Strategy
Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)
21 Jan 2015 · GMO
Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)
14 Jan 2015 · Meeting with Introductory meeting w. Europabio to discuss the biotechnology industry in Europe (healthcare, agri-food and bioeconomy/industrial biotechnology field)
Meeting with Heidi Jern (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)
14 Jan 2015 · Bioindustries and biotechnology
Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)
10 Dec 2014 · Biotechnology
Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)
9 Dec 2014 · Preparation of Commissioner's participation to future Europabio event, personalised medicines; GMOs.
Meeting with Ladislav Miko (acting Director-General Health and Food Safety)
5 Dec 2014 · New transparency rules and pending GM authorisations