European Live Poultry and Hatching Egg Association

ELPHA vzw

to facilitate and promote, at the European level, the activities and the co-operation between associations and companies in the European Union with one of the following occupations: a. primary breeding, b. incubation and hatching of poultry eggs, c. the production of hatching eggs and day-old poultry, d. trade in and outside the European Union of hatching eggs and or day-old poultry to promote the interests of the members as weil as their rights and functions to address common issues in the European and international markets as a formal representation towards official organisations and institutions, particularly in the EU.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Valérie Hayer (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Jul 2025 · Livestock

Meeting with Chiara Galiffa (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič) and

23 Jan 2025 · Discussion on the poultry industry, its trade components and challenges, the need for policy intervention.

Meeting with Sandra Gallina (Director-General Health and Food Safety) and

23 Jan 2025 · Highly pathogenic avian influenza & Animal welfare.

Meeting with Mihail Dumitru (Deputy Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development) and

22 Jan 2025 · Stocktaking of key issues in the poultry sector

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade) and

22 Jan 2025 · Current issues in the European poultry meat sector.

Meeting with Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner) and

10 Jan 2023 · Sustainability of the poultry sector, reciprocity in trade agreements, imports from Ukraine, future promotion policy, and more generally the future of livestock and meat production in EU.

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and

31 May 2021 · Exchange on Farm to Fork Strategy with European Livestock Voice

Meeting with Catherine Geslain-Laneelle (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski) and

8 May 2020 · To discuss measures taken from the EU Commission to support the EU Poultry Sector in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.

Meeting with Marco Valletta (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

23 Sept 2015 · ELPHA European live poultry policy paper LAVA

Meeting with Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

23 Sept 2015 · Views of ELPHA on Organic Farming Regulation