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GROUP DE CEUSTER

GROUP DC

GroupDC operates three divisions: DC Plant Care, focusing on biorational solutions like fertilizers, growing media, and plant protection products; DC Biosciences, advancing innovation through own research and investments in biotech startups; and DC Animal Care, producing feed concentrates and equipment for poultry farming.

Lobbying Activity

Response to European Climate Law amendment

17 Sept 2025

Group De Ceuster (GroupDC) is a Belgian family-owned company, founded in 1966. Today, we operate in more than 105 countries with 13 production sites and over 800 employees. We are a European leader in plant care, biosciences, and animal care, committed to advancing sustainable agriculture through innovative, science-based solutions. Our product portfolio includes professional and consumer growing media, organic and organo-mineral fertilizers, soil improvers, biostimulants, and plant protection products, developed with a biorational approach that works in harmony with natural ecosystems. These solutions help optimize resource efficiency in plant production and contribute directly to EU policy goals related to sustainable food systems, biodiversity, and nature restoration.
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Response to Evaluation of the Fertilising Products Regulation

10 Sept 2025

Please find Group De Ceuster's feedback to the EU's Fertilising Products Regulation evaluation attached. Group De Ceusters (GroupDC) plant care division De Ceuster Meststoffen (DCM) has more than 45 years of experience in developing, producing and marketing organic and organo-mineral fertilisers and is a European market leader in this field. Over the years, its fertilising product range has been expanded to include potting soils (growing media), soil improvers and biostimulants. DCMs products are offered for non-professional and professional use.
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Response to Towards a Circular, Regenerative and Competitive Bioeconomy

23 Jun 2025

Dear, Please find attached GroupDCs feedback on the EU Bioeconomy Strategy.
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Meeting with Flavio Facioni (Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi) and Aula Europe

22 May 2025 · Hroticulture

Meeting with Patricia Reilly (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

18 Mar 2025 · De Ceuster group requested a meeting to discuss a more sustainable future for growing media and substrates like peat which constitutes 70% of all growing media and its use in millions of cubic meters is projected to double up to 2050.

Meeting with Taru Haapaniemi (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen) and Aula Europe

30 Jan 2025 · Exchange of views on the growing media