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PwC is a global professional services network operating in 149 countries, providing assurance, tax and advisory services.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Ondřej Knotek (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Jan 2026 · Energy and Climate policy

Meeting with Richard Szostak (Director Secretariat-General)

7 Jan 2026 · State of play of relations between the EU and the UK

Meeting with Richard Szostak (Director Secretariat-General)

5 Nov 2025 · State of play of relations between the EU and the UK

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

5 Nov 2025 · Union of skills in motion addressing the EU's workforce challenges

Meeting with Michalis Hadjipantela (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Sept 2025 · Follow-up Meeting for Tax Simplification

Meeting with Iliyana Tsanova (Hors Classe Adviser Budget)

4 Sept 2025 · Risk management – exchange of views, experiences, and expertise

Meeting with Sanna Laaksonen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen)

24 Jul 2025 · Cloud strategy for defence industry

Meeting with Benjamin Angel (Director Taxation and Customs Union)

5 Jun 2025 · Discussion on the latest developments of the US taxation, and status of various US tax proposals, as well as Pillar 2 discussions and OECD IF.

Meeting with Sven Gentner (Head of Unit Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) and EURALIA and

21 May 2025 · Developments as regards CSRD implementation and legal update

Meeting with Lucia Granelli (Head of Unit Taxation and Customs Union)

13 May 2025 · Introduction: ITSM INT

Meeting with Anne Fort (Cabinet of Commissioner Andrius Kubilius)

7 May 2025 · Sovereign cloud and regulation

Meeting with Katarina Koszeghy (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

5 May 2025 · Presentation of an academic paper to be published soon on the US in international tax policy

Meeting with Benjamin Angel (Director Taxation and Customs Union)

14 Apr 2025 · 1. Simplification agenda and current status 2. Clean Industrial Deal - recommendation upcoming 3. New tax gap report in fall coming 4. Latest the international tax developments, including the US, P1, P2, and DSTs.

Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and ENEL SpA and

31 Mar 2025 · Workshop on: “Powering Integration: Strategic Partnerships for Regional Electricity Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean”

PwC network urges further simplification of EU Taxonomy reporting

26 Mar 2025
Topic — Amendments to simplify sustainability reporting requirements for companies and financial institutions.
Message — The organization objects to fixed quantitative materiality thresholds and suggests using a broader financial materiality concept instead. They also recommend removing specific reporting requirements for banks and expanding the use of estimates for retail data.12
Why — The proposed changes would reduce administrative complexity and compliance costs for preparers.34
Impact — Financial institutions would face challenges accurately assessing the environmental risks of their counterparties.5
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Meeting with Sven Gentner (Head of Unit Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) and KPMG and FAR AB

17 Mar 2025 · CSRD assurance and possible audit reform

Meeting with Katarina Koszeghy (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra), Patrice Pillet (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

27 Feb 2025 · International and EU tax issues

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Feb 2025 · Priorities new legislature

Meeting with Chiara Galiffa (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič)

30 Jan 2025 · Exchange on the EU-US transatlantic relations

Meeting with Pasquale Tridico (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

28 Jan 2025 · Meeting with Panagiotis Papapanagiotou - PwC | Tax Policy Associate

Meeting with Ivars Ijabs (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Microsoft Corporation and

13 Dec 2024 · European defence industry programme (EDIP)

PwC Urges EU to Declutter Corporate Tax Rules

11 Sept 2024
Topic — Evaluation of the EU’s minimum standard rules addressing aggressive tax planning practices.
Message — PwC calls for simplifying and "decluttering" tax rules to reduce administrative burdens. They suggest reviewing whether all ATAD measures remain necessary following the implementation of Pillar Two.12
Why — This would reduce regulatory overlap and significantly lower administrative expenses for their multinational clients.3
Impact — Member States lose the ability to use specialized local rules to combat specific tax avoidance.4
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Response to Public country-by-country on corporate - template and electronic format

2 Sept 2024

PwC International Ltd (PwC), on behalf of the PwC network, welcomes the opportunity to respond to the request for feedback on the public country by country reports Draft Implementing Regulation and Annex, by way of the attached letter.
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Meeting with Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)

20 Jun 2024 · Physical meeting - Follow-up meeting on Customs Data Hub

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament)

9 May 2024 · ESG Forum Bratislava - participation as speaker

Meeting with Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)

6 Mar 2024 · Physical meeting - Discussion on AI solutions for Customs

Response to Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)

24 Jan 2024

PwC International Ltd, on behalf of its network of member firms (PwC), welcomes the opportunity to respond to the EC call for feedback on the Proposal for a Council Directive on Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT), published on 12 September 2023. Please see attached our feedback letter.
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Response to Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)

3 Jan 2024

PwC International Ltd, on behalf of its network of member firms (PwC), welcomes the opportunity to share its views on the Proposal for a Council Directive on transfer pricing, published on 12 September 2023. Please see attached our feedback letter.
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Response to Postponement of deadlines within the Accounting Directive for the adoption of certain ESRS

19 Dec 2023

PwC International Ltd (PwC), on behalf of the PwC network, is pleased to provide feedback on the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) - proposed postponement of deadlines. Please find our full response and recommendations in the document attached.
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Meeting with Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

13 Dec 2023 · Exchange of views on the AI Act

PwC calls for global alignment to reduce EU reporting burdens

29 Nov 2023
Topic — The Commission is consulting on reducing EU legislative reporting requirements for companies by 25%.
Message — PwC requests aligning EU sustainability standards with global frameworks to ensure consistency for multinational businesses. They suggest clarifying materiality rules so companies do not report excessive, low-value data. They also propose removing specific environmental reporting requirements that they deem of limited relevance.123
Why — Aligning standards and removing specific data requirements would significantly reduce compliance costs for companies.45
Impact — Niche data users lose access to specific details if reporting is restricted to general interest.6
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Meeting with Lara Wolters (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

27 Sept 2023 · Staff level: CSDD Directive

PwC Urges Delay to New EU Taxonomy Reporting Rules

3 May 2023
Topic — This consultation establishes technical criteria for sustainable economic activities contributing to four non-climate environmental goals.
Message — PwC requests maintaining the 12-month grace period before new reporting requirements become mandatory. They also seek further guidance on integrating different performance indicators into single reports.12
Why — Postponing the reporting deadline reduces the immediate administrative burden and improves corporate data accuracy.34
Impact — Financial firms lose because data gaps prevent them from making comparable disclosures for their own investments.56
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Response to VAT in the Digital Age

3 Apr 2023

Please see attached PwC's feedback.
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Meeting with Katherine Power (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness), Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

24 Mar 2023 · Financial services

Meeting with Jeroen Lenaers (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair) and Rasmussen Global

12 Jan 2023 · Pegasus and equivalent Spyware

PwC Urges Better Cohesion in EU Debt-Equity Tax Proposal

28 Jul 2022
Topic — This consultation addresses a proposed EU directive to reduce corporate debt-equity tax bias.
Message — PwC requests better alignment with existing tax frameworks to avoid legal uncertainty. They specifically call for clarification on how the rules interact with global minimum tax standards.12
Why — Cohesive rules would reduce administrative complexity and prevent unintended tax increases for businesses.3
Impact — Start-ups and smaller firms face higher costs due to a lack of regulatory protections.4
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Response to Open finance framework

27 Jul 2022

PwC International Ltd (PwC), on behalf of the PwC network, welcomes the European Commission initiative to enable data sharing and third-party access in the financial sector. Please find our comments attached
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Response to Environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings and sustainability risks in credit ratings

6 Jun 2022

PwC International Ltd (PwC), on behalf of the PwC network, welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to improve the quality and transparency of ESG ratings and sustainability risk in credit ratings. Please find attached our response to the call for evidence.
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PwC Urges Mandatory External Audits of Corporate Sustainability

23 May 2022
Topic — EU initiative establishing mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence for companies.
Message — PwC proposes mandatory external verification of supply chain due diligence by independent parties. They also suggest directors provide public oversight statements and implement rigorous risk management models.123
Why — Mandatory assurance requirements would create substantial new revenue streams for PwC's auditing and consulting branches.45
Impact — Suppliers face increased administrative burdens and costs when providing sustainability data to corporate clients.67
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Meeting with Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union) and Philip Morris International Inc. and

18 May 2022 · Videoconference - Stakeholder event to gather views on the upcoming revision of the tobacco taxation directive

Response to Fighting the use of shell entities and arrangements for tax purposes

6 Apr 2022

Please see attached our comment letter.
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Response to Minimum level of taxation for large multinational groups

1 Apr 2022

Please see attached our feedback letter.
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Meeting with Sirpa Pietikäinen (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Feb 2022 · Corporate Sustainability Reporting, EU Taxonomy and green investments, Circular Economy, Audit regulation

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

9 Feb 2022 · AI Act

Response to Strengthening the quality of corporate reporting and its enforcement

4 Feb 2022

Subject: response to call for evidence ‘Corporate reporting - improving its quality and enforcement PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd (PwC), on behalf of the PwC network, welcomes the opportunity to respond to the public consultation and call for evidence ‘Strengthening the quality of corporate reporting and its enforcement’. Please see attached a list of studies and reports with information and evidence supporting the arguments made in our response to the public consultation and our cover letter, as well as recent articles of relevance to the initiative. The studies have been summarised and linked for convenience of the reader.
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Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

25 Jan 2022 · Audit Reform

Meeting with Nathalie De Basaldua (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

16 Sept 2021 · Possible participation of the Commissioner to a conference on AML

Response to Addressing distortions caused by foreign subsidies

22 Jul 2021

Please find enclosed PwC network feedback on the regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market.
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Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

9 Jun 2021 · Overview of the main steps of the legislative review

Response to Commission Delegated Regulation on taxonomy-alignment of undertakings reporting non-financial information

2 Jun 2021

PwC International Ltd (PwC), on behalf of the PwC network, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the draft delegated act specifying the disclosure obligations pursuant to Art. 8 of the Taxonomy Regulation for financial and non-financial undertakings. We welcome the approach taken by the European Commission to build on the ESA’s final advice; we believe it is a sensible approach to base the Taxonomy disclosures on the financial report prepared following IFRS or the respective national GAAP for non-financial undertakings, and prudential accounting for financial undertakings. Given the ambitious goals of the Taxonomy Regulation, as well as the complexity involved, we would recommend that the delegated act enables undertakings in the scope of the new disclosure requirements to apply these rules in a consistent manner. Below we set out our two main recommendations; in the Appendix we have given an overview of detailed questions and possible solutions. Clarification of first year reporting requirements We welcome the introduction of a simplified application of the reporting requirement during the first year, as a helpful relief for companies in scope to deal with the tight schedule of the legislative measures tied to the Taxonomy. However, it seems that several interpretations have emerged with regard to the reporting requirements in the first year. In order to ensure consistency across countries and comparability across entities, it is key that transitional measures are worded as clear as possible. Our understanding is the following: - The first year of application all of the 3 KPIs should be disclosed for eligible and non eligible activities, but no further breakdown is needed (i.e. no KPI allocated to aligned and non aligned activities and no disclosure of such activities) - The second year the act is applied in full but there are no comparative figures besides the ones that were presented in year 1 (i.e. for eligible and non eligible activities as a total). - The third year the act is applied in full and a full set up of comparatives (one year comparative) are presented. We believe it would be appreciated by preparers, investors, auditors, and users if this was explicit. Similar to what happened with the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation, we trust authorities will adopt a pragmatic and supportive approach during the transition in the new regime, understanding the complexity and tight timeline faced by reporting entities, as well as the difficulty for financial market participants to publish KPIs in the first year without having the information on the underlying economic activities in which they are investing. Process for raising technical reporting issues The Taxonomy Regulation, like any new reporting rules, will raise numerous questions on its interpretation in the course of its application, and we would welcome ways to formally address technical reporting issues in order to ensure consistency and comparable, relevant disclosures. Thus, a formal channel of communication comparable to the mechanism in place for the IFRS in the form of the IFRIC as a standing interpretation committee would be highly appreciated by all stakeholders. The future sustainability reporting standard to be adopted under the proposed Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the related governance structure should take into account the need to support the practical implementation of the Taxonomy-specific reporting requirement. Please find attached an overview of issues in the draft delegated act that might need clarifications. We provide our view on these issues and suggest ways on how they could be clarified. We look forward to continuing to share our perspectives with EU legislators. If you would like to discuss our response, please contact Sebastian Heintges at sebastian.heintges@pwc.com or Mikael Scheja at mikael.scheja@pwc.com.
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Meeting with Adina-Ioana Vălean (Commissioner)

11 May 2021 · Meeting CEO

Meeting with Florian Denis (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness), Peter Power (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

8 Dec 2020 · regulation of the auditing profession + consequences from the wirecard case

Response to Sustainable corporate governance

8 Oct 2020

Please see attached our response.
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Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

7 Oct 2020 · Meeting on the Pact for Skills.

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A and

8 Sept 2020 · Green recovery: Financing of the Green Deal

Meeting with Anouk Faber (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit), Antoine Kasel (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit), Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit)

10 Jun 2020 · Videoconference on skills.

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

5 Feb 2020 · Digital skills

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

22 Jan 2020 · Skills

Response to A simplified prospectus for companies and investors in Europe

21 Dec 2018

Please see attached our letter
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Meeting with Stephen Quest (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union) and Microsoft Corporation and International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation

22 May 2018 · Conference on 'Digital Transformation of Tax Administrations"

Response to Fair taxation of the digital economy

16 May 2018

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Response to Fair taxation of the digital economy

16 May 2018

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Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President) and

16 Feb 2018 · audit legislation, fight against tax evasion

Meeting with Stephen Quest (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)

8 Nov 2017 · Exchange of views on digital taxation

Meeting with Gertrud Ingestad (Director-General Informatics)

23 Aug 2017 · handshake

Meeting with Christian Danielsson (Director-General Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood)

21 Jun 2017 · Neighbourhood and Enlargmeent policy

Meeting with Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen) and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

7 Jun 2017 · Jobs of tomorrow: what educational skills do we need?

Meeting with Ruth Paserman (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen) and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

30 May 2017 · Intergenerational Fairness

Meeting with Stephen Quest (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)

17 May 2017 · Stekeholder feedback dialogue

Meeting with Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici)

20 Dec 2016 · Meeting to discuss the latest tax reform files.

Meeting with Stephen Quest (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)

14 Dec 2016 · Discussion on corporate taxation

Meeting with Stephen Quest (Director-General Taxation and Customs Union)

28 Jun 2016 · Discussion on tax policy and tax transparency

Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

28 Apr 2016 · taxation

Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)

19 Apr 2016 · Digitising European Industry

Meeting with Sebastian Kuck (Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill)

1 Mar 2016 · Audit

Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy), Michael Hager (Digital Economy) and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

16 Nov 2015 · DSM

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

3 Nov 2015 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

30 Sept 2015 · Digital Single Market, Industry 4.0, DESI

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

29 Jun 2015 · DSM

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

16 Apr 2015 · DSM

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

28 Jan 2015 · Digitale Agenda

Meeting with Chantal Hughes (Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill) and Association for Financial Markets in Europe

3 Dec 2014 · Bank structural reform

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

3 Dec 2014 · Digitale Agenda