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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines transports passengers and cargo as part of the Air France-KLM Group.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Jeannette Baljeu (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Nov 2025 · Aviation

KLM Urges EU to Reclassify Airline Catering Waste

6 Nov 2025
Topic — The consultation seeks to create a legislative framework for sustainable production and circularity.
Message — KLM requests reclassifying international catering waste to allow for sustainable treatment like composting. They argue rules are disproportionate and seek a risk-based assessment to align with household standards.12
Why — This would reduce waste disposal costs and help the airline meet mandatory EU recycling targets.34
Impact — Waste disposal companies and landfills would lose business as airlines divert waste toward recycling centers.5
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Meeting with Johannes Ten Broeke (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra), Matthieu Moulonguet (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

4 Sept 2025 · Aviation decarbonisation policies

Meeting with Pierpaolo Settembri (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas)

4 Sept 2025 · Current aviation topics

Meeting with Myriam Jans (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

15 Jul 2025 · Decarbonization of the sector

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and

20 Mar 2025 · Exchange views on future of aviation in Europa and sustainable aviation fuels (SAF and E-SAF).

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

20 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on the balanced approach process for Schiphol Airport, decarbonisation of the aviation industry, competitiveness study, Airports Fitness Check, Air Services Regulation, Cabin baggage, EU-Qatar Agreement

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport) and TotalEnergies SE and

6 Dec 2024 · Investments in sustainable liquid fuels production in the EU

Meeting with Jeannette Baljeu (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Nov 2024 · EU aviation policy

Meeting with Jeannette Baljeu (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Jul 2024 · Aviation

Meeting with Auke Zijlstra (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Jul 2024 · E-Fuels

Meeting with Rachel Blom (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Jul 2024 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič) and International Air Transport Association and

16 Apr 2024 · Circular economy and improving cabin waste management

Meeting with Rachel Smit (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean), Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) and

16 Apr 2024 · Circular economy and improving cabin waste management

Meeting with Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides) and International Air Transport Association and

16 Apr 2024 · On circular economy and improving cabin waste management.

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

8 Apr 2024 · Dialogue on Clean Mobility

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner)

8 Apr 2024 · Sustainable aviation priorities

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

8 Apr 2024 · Energy market

Meeting with Jeroen Lenaers (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Airlines for Europe and International Air Transport Association

23 Nov 2023 · API

Meeting with Vera Tax (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Oct 2023 · Visit to Schiphol Airport, meeting with CEO and staff (assistant participated)

Meeting with Jeroen Lenaers (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and International Air Transport Association

30 Aug 2023 · API

Meeting with Caroline Nagtegaal (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Jul 2023 · NZIA

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport) and Lufthansa Group and

28 Feb 2023 · Airlines operations in Japan

Meeting with Vera Tax (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Feb 2023 · Policy Dinner

Meeting with Dorien Rookmaker (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Feb 2023 · Rail and aviation, fit for 55 legislation

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and Air France-KLM

10 Nov 2022 · Progress in decarbonisation aviation

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

25 Jul 2022 · Schiphol airport, slots

Meeting with Esther De Lange (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Apr 2022 · FF55 - APA

Meeting with Caroline Nagtegaal (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

1 Feb 2022 · ETD/ReFuelEU aviation

Meeting with Caroline Nagtegaal (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

6 Jan 2022 · AFIR

Meeting with Andrey Novakov (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

19 May 2021 · KLM EGF

Response to Union-wide performance targets for the air traffic management network for the third reference period

15 Mar 2021

Dear Sir / Madam, Please find attached a letter by Mr Vincent van Hooff, Executive Vice President Flight Operations, providing the feedback on behalf of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on the draft EC Implementing Decision setting revised Union-wide performance targets for the air traffic management network for the third reference period (2020-2024). We thank you for the opportunity to provide our feedback. Jeroen Hardenbol Manager European Affairs - Brussels Office KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and Lufthansa Group

11 Mar 2021 · Climate roadmap for aviation

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and Shell Companies and

13 Jan 2021 · Roundtable on the Green Deal, organised by the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, with the participation of the Dutch Prime Minister and other Dutch Government Ministers.

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)

23 Nov 2020 · Green recovery in aviation

Response to A new Circular Economy Action Plan

20 Jan 2020

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines would like to draw the attention of the European Commission to Regulation (EU) 1069/2009. A revision of Regulation (EU) 1069/2009 is needed to attain EU circular economy goals and it should therefore be considered in the proposed Circular Economy Action Plan of the European Commission. KLM supports Regulation 1069/2009 and its aim to avoid spreading diseases but believes there is room for improvement. Catering waste from outside the European Union is always classified as Category 1 (CAT1) Waste. CAT1 Waste is a type of waste that has been classified as potentially dangerous to animal and/or plant health, CAT1 being the highest degree of hazard on a three-level scale. This type of waste is subject to strict EU regulation, prohibiting recycling. All CAT1 Waste must be disposed of by incineration or buried in an authorised landfill. Due to regulatory responsibilities, only 16% of all catering waste that KLM handled in 2018 has been recycled or separated, despite our efforts to recycle a higher percentage of waste. Due to the current Catering Waste classification scheme and this Regulation, the EU and European airlines are missing out on more sustainable and efficient waste-management solutions, both environmentally as well as economically. Without a revision, the EU will be unable to meet its own set targets for moving towards a fully circular economy, as laid down in the EU Circular Economy Package (2018). Therefore, KLM calls on the European Commission to revise Regulation (EU) 1069/2009 in order to increase the percentage of waste KLM, and other EU carriers, can recycle. Please find attached our position paper for more information about this case.
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Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)

3 Dec 2019 · Sustainability in the aviation sector

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

7 May 2019 · aviation agreements

Response to Summertime consultation

12 Nov 2018

12 November 2018 Air France - KLM position on EC proposal to discontinue the seasonal time changes (DST) 1) Possible impact on AFKL operations Change of season is built into our business model and over the years into the complex AFKL network offering thousands of connections, with careful seasonal planning, fleet and crew planning and rostering our schedules. A change will have a significant impact at a global scale on air carriers operating within and to/from Europe. In the EU, additional disruption could take place as each Member State has the right to decide whether it will apply the winter or summertime as their standard time. This brings further complexity and uncertainty. A lot of these connections are between congested airports and through the complex and dense network it has become much more difficult to obtain adjustments in certain times and slots. The disruption to schedules and impact on night curfews would be felt most strongly if wintertime is adopted permanently, essentially moving summertime today back -1 hour (to UTC +1 hour iso UTC +2 hours). If the Commission proposal goes through, a big question is how to deal with the necessary mass coordination of time change requests, whether coordinators use local time (LT) or UTC impacting their local curfews, and how connectivity could be harmed with limited capacity available on one or both ends of the route. Any change to summer/winter reference time in Europe will impact slot coordination. Changes to schedules on such a large scale are complex and care has to be taken not to damage international connectivity. In addition, operational restrictions have to be taken into account and making changes is slots and timing is difficult, especially at congested airports. Fine-tuned AFKL international routes would require complicated rescheduling to preserve the coherence of these established networks. 2) AFKL position on the proposal AFKL would highly prefer that the DST system remains as it is to avoid negative consequences for our global network and prevent the risk of a patchwork of standard times throughout the EU as Member States have the right to choose either the summer or the wintertime as their standard time. If the current system is to be abolished, the choice of summer or wintertime as standard time should not be a Member State’s individual choice, but should be synchronised and become summertime on an EU wide basis to minimise the impact on the industry. If the EU does decide to progress with this proposal, we request a minimum 18 month period from final agreement to implementation after the publication of the Directive to discontinue seasonal time changes on EU level (summer 2021 at the earliest). In this way AFKL will have more time to make adjustments in the planning and final coordination. The current Commission timeframes are too ambitious, would cause widespread disruption to schedules not only in Europe but further afield due to the connections broken by the 1 hour change, and require much planning to secure and identify available capacity/slots to make the necessary changes. AFKL endorses the objections raised by A4E, IATA and others in the attached position paper. * * *
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Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

24 Apr 2018 · PAX rights, aviation taxes

Meeting with Joshua Salsby (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

22 Nov 2017 · Aviation issues

Meeting with Manuel Nobre Goncalves (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas) and Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. and Flughafen München GmbH

9 Oct 2017 · Ideas for the next Framework programme

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner) and

16 Jun 2017 · Meeting with Mr Janaillac, CEO of Air France KLM Group and Mr Elbers, CEO of KLM on competition and aviation

Meeting with Joshua Salsby (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

22 Mar 2017 · Aviation Issues

Meeting with Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner) and

31 Jan 2017 · La situation des compagnies aériennes en Europe et l’impact de Brexit sur le fonctionnement des compagnie aériennes européennes

Meeting with Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President) and

20 Dec 2016 · Aviation sector economic challenges

Meeting with Matej Zakonjsek (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

13 Oct 2016 · Aviation strategy

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

24 May 2016 · State of the industry, air passenger rights, mandates

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner) and

14 Feb 2016 · Roundtable with European Businesses in Singapore

Meeting with Matej Zakonjsek (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

21 Jan 2016 · aviation strategy

Meeting with Matej Zakonjsek (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc) and Lufthansa Group and AIR FRANCE

7 Oct 2015 · Aviation package

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner) and

2 Oct 2015 · Meeting representives of 5 airline companies

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President) and KPN and

27 Feb 2015 · Better regulation and European affairs in general

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner)

27 Feb 2015 · Meeting with KLM

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner) and

27 Feb 2015 · KLM CEO P.ELBERS

Meeting with Joao Aguiar Machado (Director-General Mobility and Transport) and Lufthansa Group and AIR FRANCE

20 Jan 2015 · Challenges and vision, Level playing field, Capacity: Slots & new airport infrastructure, Airport charges