Riva Group

Manufacture of wire rod, reinforcing bars and welded mesh for the construction sector.

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Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and Vinces Consulting and Global Steel Climate Council Inc

3 Nov 2025 · Exchange of views on the GSCC standard for measuring carbon intensity in steelmaking and its possible alignment with EU initiatives under the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA).

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and

28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM.

Response to Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act

8 Jul 2025

Please see the attached document.

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Meeting with Raphaël Glucksmann (Member of the European Parliament) and The European Steel Association

24 Apr 2025 · Steel overcapacities

Response to Evaluation of the Public Procurement Directives

7 Mar 2025

As one of the leading European steel producers for construction and infrastructure, we welcome the European Commission's initiative to revise the directives on public procurement. Construction and infrastructure are key sectors of the European economy, and the materials used and procured by public authorities should indeed drive demand for sustainable products based on sound, transparent, and indisputable criteria. 1/ In this regard, we emphasize that environmental criteria should always be grounded in scientifically robust metrics, supported by internationally recognized and mature standards. For construction materials such as steel, the European standardization framework built around the EN 15804:A2 standard is already widely accepted and implemented, including in ambitious national sectoral regulations like France's RE2020. It is also applied internationally. Furthermore, the recently revised Construction Products Regulation and the CPR Acquis process use the EN 15804:A2 standard as the basis for environmental evaluations related to Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). 2/ More broadly, life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies are well-suited to guiding environmental criteria, provided they adopt the cut-off methodology and focus on the cradle-to-gate scope, which accurately represents emissions from the manufacturing stage. In this regard, we are concerned about the current approach to recycling in the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) framework developed in Europe. We believe that certain parameters should be revised to better align with and bridge the EUs decarbonization and circularity objectives. 3/ Since the vast majority of steel for construction in Europe is already produced via the Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) route using recycled steel, adopting alternative and non-consensual methodologiessuch as the so-called sliding scalerisks distorting sustainability evaluations. This could ultimately favor the substitution of recycled products with less sustainable ones, regardless of their actual carbon footprint or recycled content. Additionally, given that direct reduction technology for steel production is less developed in Europe compared to other jurisdictions, such distortions could unfairly benefit non-European production despite its potentially higher environmental and climate impact. We therefore recommend adopting a prudent approach when considering various options for lead market design and are eager to engage with the Commission on these aspects.

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Meeting with Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (Executive Vice-President) and

13 Feb 2025 · To discuss solutions aimed at keeping steel sector competitive and bringing forward the necessary investments in decarbonization.

Meeting with Dan Nica (Member of the European Parliament) and The European Steel Association and

20 Nov 2024 · Debate on the European Steel Industry

Meeting with Sophie Wilmès (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Sept 2024 · Information on organisation at start of mandate

Meeting with Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Jul 2024 · Energy- Indystry

Meeting with Raphaël Glucksmann (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Jul 2024 · Steel

Meeting with Aleksandar Nikolic (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Jul 2024 · Réunion sur l'état de l'Industrie de l'acier en France

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Mar 2024 · Clean Transition Dialogue with the Steel Sector

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Mar 2024 · Discussion of current challenges facing the European Steel sector attended by private industry as well as Ministers and official representatives of Italy, Romania, Poland, Czechia, Belgium, Hungary and Luxembourg

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Aug 2022 · Waste shipment directive (équipe)

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

2 Feb 2022 · Exchange on energy price surges, investment needs and support to decarbonisation objectives

Meeting with Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President) and The European Steel Association and

26 Jan 2021 · EU ETS, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, Circular economy

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

10 Sept 2020 · EU industrial strategy