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Rabo

Rabobank is a Dutch cooperative bank serving retail and corporate clients in the Netherlands and focusing globally on food and agriculture.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Esther De Lange (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen), Pawel Wisniewski (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen)

18 Nov 2025 · sustainable agriculture, generational renewal in agriculture

Meeting with Jennifer Robertson (Head of Unit Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

13 Nov 2025 · Implementation of the active account requirement under EMIR

Meeting with Dirk Gotink (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Apr 2025 · Omnibus, CSRD, CSDDD

Meeting with Arba Kokalari (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Deutsche Bank AG and

30 Apr 2025 · AI in Financial Services

Meeting with Jessika Roswall (Commissioner) and

28 Mar 2025 · Roundtable “Investing in Water Resilience”

Meeting with Christophe Hansen (Commissioner) and

18 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on the Vision for EU agriculture; discussion on the role of regenerative agriculture, benchmarking, public-private actions and access to finance in the context of transition

Meeting with Gijs Schilthuis (Director Agriculture and Rural Development) and Nestlé S.A. and

18 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on the Vision for EU agriculture; discussion on the role of regenerative agriculture, benchmarking, public-private actions and access to finance in the context of transition

Meeting with Esther De Lange (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen)

18 Mar 2025 · Vision on agriculture and food, future Common Agricultural Policy

Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

27 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on sustainability and transition finance

Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis)

21 Feb 2025 · Simplification CMU and investment needs Digital Euro

Meeting with Cristina Dias (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque), Riikka Torppa (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque)

21 Feb 2025 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Lara Wolters (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

20 Feb 2025 · Omnibus

Meeting with Esther De Lange (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen), Pawel Wisniewski (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen)

20 Feb 2025 · Exchange of views on issue considered relevant by Rabobank, mainly on the capital requirements, vision and benchmarking

Meeting with Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (Executive Vice-President)

22 Jan 2025 · Discuss the European Commission's upcoming initiatives and the critical issues related to climate action - and transition finance.

Meeting with Bert-Jan Ruissen (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Nov 2024 · EU-landbouwbeleid

Meeting with Jessika Van Leeuwen (Member of the European Parliament) and Land- en Tuinbouw Organisatie Nederland

15 Oct 2024 · Exchange of views

Meeting with Dirk Gotink (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Jul 2024 · ECON

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner)

23 May 2024 · Introduction Rabobank, sustainability, financing the transition in agricultural sector

Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

23 May 2024 · Financing green and digital innovation.

Meeting with Bart Groothuis (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Apr 2024 · Cybersecurity

Meeting with Caroline Nagtegaal (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Apr 2024 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Myriam Jans (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

15 Apr 2024 · Introduction to Rabobank

Meeting with Bert-Jan Ruissen (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2024 · Agriculture

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

31 Jan 2024 · Sustainable food systems

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner)

17 Jan 2024 · Financing of the green transition

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and European Environmental Bureau and

9 Jan 2024 · Farm visit and roundtable with agri-food chain stakeholders

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

31 Oct 2023 · Sustainable food systems

Meeting with Joost Korte (Director-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) and Vereniging VNO-NCW and

24 May 2023 · EU social policy making, European Pillar of Social Rights and future initiatives

Meeting with Antoine Colombani (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

11 Jan 2023 · Sustainable food systems

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

16 Nov 2022 · Sustainable food systems

Meeting with Elena Montani (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

6 Sept 2022 · Soil Health Resolution of Soil Champions at COP 27

Meeting with Annukka Ojala (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)

12 Jul 2022 · Sustainable Food Systems

Meeting with Damyana Stoynova (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

12 Jul 2022 · Discussed the broad thematic priorities for the COP and in particular climate adaptation and food security

Rabobank urges individual farm data to enable sustainability rewards

1 Jul 2022
Topic — Initiative expanding the EU farm data network to include environmental and social indicators.
Message — Rabobank prioritizes measuring climate footprints, soil health, and biodiversity at the individual farm level. They argue for standardized measurements instead of generic estimates to enable commercial rewards for sustainability efforts. They advocate for using open-source frameworks like the Open Soil Index to monitor and improve field-specific quality.123
Why — Accurate data enables Rabobank to develop sustainable revenue models and financial rewards for customers.45
Impact — Producers with poor environmental performance lose the protection of generic category-based labeling scores.6
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Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Jun 2022 · Green finance

Response to Common Agricultural Policy: Performance framework and data for monitoring and evaluation

7 Jun 2022

See our paper Carbon Farming Four Actions the EU can take to make it happen.
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Meeting with Damyana Stoynova (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

7 Apr 2022 · Contribution of Food Sector to COP27

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

31 Mar 2022 · Banking Package - APA

Response to Carbon Removal Certification

23 Feb 2022

Carbon farming: Four actions the EU can take to make it happen. See also enclosed doc or use the link: https://economics.rabobank.com/publications/2022/february/carbon-farming-four-actions-the-eu-can-take-to-make-it-happen/ Summary: Based on our own experience in pilots, we share four actions that can support scaling up carbon farming now. 1. Set very clear guidelines on how to establish methodologies for project‐level baseline emissions measurement and MRV for soils. 2. Make pilots more precise with more data points on soil quality. 3. Address the risks of permanence and reversal in land‐based carbon removal. 4. Provide clarity and set the direction for the next few years: The timeline for the Fit for 55 proposals seems far away and individual countries are still figuring out their national agriculture and land use sectors’ emissions reduction targets and pathways. Nevertheless, individual land owners need more clarity now about what this could all mean for them. Meanwhile, further along the supply chain, more and more food and agribusiness companies are making voluntary corporate commitments and setting targets that include reducing their scope 3 farm‐level emissions. Recently, the Science Based Targets initiative released a new corporate standard for AFOLU companies This will change the way companies report and verify their AFOLU‐related emissions, but also how they account for land‐based removals ﴾for the first time﴿. How this new voluntary corporate standard will interact with the upcoming EU carbon removal scheme has yet to be analyzed. Another unclear point is how to prove additionality, which varies by voluntary protocol. In general, voluntary carbon credit programs cannot reward specific farming practices that would have happened otherwise: for example, land management practices that are already widely adopted or required by law. The proof of additionality will become more complex if the EU makes standards that restrict the voluntary market. On the other hand, regulatory uncertainty on this important point may also prevent parties from kick‐starting carbon farming initiatives today.
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Response to Soil Health Law – protecting, sustainably managing and restoring EU soils

21 Feb 2022

Please see our factsheet about an Open Soil Index, it is our wish to have an EU standard.
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Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and Bayer AG and

3 Dec 2021 · Discussion on investments into carbon removals with business representatives

Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

8 Nov 2021 · European Green Deal

Meeting with Antoine Colombani (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and

6 Oct 2021 · Basel III

Meeting with Antoine Colombani (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and European Association of Co-operative Banks

22 Sept 2021 · Capital requirements and green transition

Meeting with Lukas Visek (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

21 Sept 2021 · Sustainable food systems

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

25 Jun 2021 · Food system Summit, EU-AU Business Forum

Meeting with Roberto Berutti (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski) and Land- en Tuinbouw Organisatie Nederland and Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken / Dutch Banking Association

9 Jun 2021 · Basel 4 impact on agricultural entrepreneurs

Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

29 Mar 2021 · European Green deal and Carbon

Meeting with Risto Artjoki (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

4 Oct 2019 · Political landscape of the EU

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

15 Nov 2016 · CRD

Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

4 Nov 2015 · Business Discussion

Meeting with Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

4 Nov 2015 · Agriculture Matters