Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl
WV Stahl
Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl represents the political interests of the steel producing industry in Germany.
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament) and Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. and
14 Jan 2026 · Austausch
Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament)
19 Nov 2025 · Exchange on Trade Policies
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
18 Nov 2025 · Exchange on safeguard measures for steel
German steel industry urges quality over quotas in EU circular economy rules
Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)
27 Oct 2025 · Deforestation
Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)
24 Oct 2025 · Circular Economy Act, Environmental Omnibus
German Steel Industry Urges Credits for Low-Emission Steel in Cars
Meeting with Angelika Niebler (Member of the European Parliament)
30 Sept 2025 · EU trade policies
German steel industry calls for green steel in corporate fleets
German steel industry urges higher EU indirect carbon cost compensation
Meeting with René Repasi (Member of the European Parliament)
4 Sept 2025 · Handelspolitisches Frühstück mit der deutschen Stahlindustrie
Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)
4 Sept 2025 · Competitiveness of the steel industry
Meeting with Jutta Paulus (Member of the European Parliament)
4 Sept 2025 · Handelspolitisches Frühstück mit der deutschen Stahlindustrie
Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament)
3 Sept 2025 · EU Energy and industry policy
German Steel Industry Demands Urgent CBAM Expansion Before 2026
German Steel Association demands strict new EU import quotas
German Steel Industry Demands Fast-Track Permits and EU Content Requirements
Meeting with Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)
3 Jul 2025 · Development of lead markets for CO₂-reduced steel
Meeting with Aleksandra Kordecka (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)
20 May 2025 · Exchange views on lead markets for green steel, green steel label, trade policies, as well as scrap and CBAM
Meeting with Michael Bloss (Member of the European Parliament)
10 Apr 2025 · Austausch Industriepolitik
German steel association welcomes simpler EU taxonomy reporting
Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and
24 Mar 2025 · Current situation of the European Steel industry and key policy needs
Meeting with Christine Schneider (Member of the European Parliament)
14 Mar 2025 · IED
German Steel Industry Demands Mandatory Green EU Procurement Rules
Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)
6 Mar 2025 · General exchange
Meeting with Anna Cavazzini (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Confédération des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises and
6 Mar 2025 · Public procurement directives reform
Meeting with Astrid Dentler (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra), Miguel Jose Garcia Jones (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)
5 Mar 2025 · Exchange on the challenges of the European steel sector
Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis)
16 Dec 2024 · overcapacity
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
9 Oct 2024 · Exchange on the current Situation of the Steel Industry
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
8 Oct 2024 · Climate and Energy Policy
Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
24 Sept 2024 · Adaptation of the foreign trade policy
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament) and FORVIA
24 Sept 2024 · Environmental Policy
Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)
17 Sept 2024 · Industrie- und Energiepolitik
Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament)
2 Sept 2024 · EU Energy and Industry Policy
Meeting with Bernd Lange (Member of the European Parliament)
2 Sept 2024 · General exchange of views
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
30 Aug 2024 · Exchange on Clean Industrial Plan
WV Stahl seeks green steel requirements in wind energy auctions
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
25 Jan 2024 · Exchange on carbon management and energy policy
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
16 Jan 2024 · Exchange on EU industry policies
German steel industry warns EU against costly benchmark changes
Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
20 Dec 2023 · International trade; economic relations with the US.
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament)
7 Dec 2023 · Austausch
German steel industry urges flexible approach to vehicle recycling quotas
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament) and WWF Deutschland
27 Nov 2023 · Austausch
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
16 Nov 2023 · Situation of the steel sector
Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)
14 Nov 2023 · GSA, Safeguards, Sanctions
Meeting with Reinhard Bütikofer (Member of the European Parliament)
30 Aug 2023 · Exchange of views
Meeting with Helmut Scholz (Member of the European Parliament)
30 Aug 2023 · Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminium
Meeting with Joachim Schuster (Member of the European Parliament)
29 Aug 2023 · Global Arragengement on Sustainable Steel
German steel industry demands practical and coherent green claim rules
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Air Products
3 Jul 2023 · Exchange on the gas market directive (staff level)
Meeting with Thomas Woolfson (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
30 Jun 2023 · Exchange on State aid questions, decarbonization and electricity prices for industry
German steel industry urges broader Net Zero Act scope
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
31 May 2023 · Gaspaket
German Steel Industry Demands Competitive Industrial Electricity Price of 4-6 Cents/kWh
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
4 May 2023 · Exchange on the electricity market design (staff level)
German steel industry rejects mandatory recycled content targets
German steel industry calls for recognition of permanent materials
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament)
20 Apr 2023 · Exhange on the Critical Raw Materials Act (Staff Level)
Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and ArcelorMittal and
18 Apr 2023 · Current situation of the steel sector in Europe. State-of-play regarding the negotiations on the GSA with the US.
German steelmakers urge ten-year delay for air quality limits
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Salzgitter AG
28 Feb 2023 · ETS & Fit for 55
Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG
28 Feb 2023 · Current issues of the steel sector in Europe
Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament)
11 Jan 2023 · Parliamentary Breakfast on "Green Steel": Pathways to European Legislation
Meeting with Helmut Scholz (Member of the European Parliament)
11 Jan 2023 · Grüner Stahl
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion) and BUSINESSEUROPE
25 Nov 2022 · REPowerEU (& ETS)
Meeting with Anne Funch Jensen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)
25 Nov 2022 · State Aid and Energy.
Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)
25 Oct 2022 · Ecodesign
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and European Environmental Bureau and
14 Oct 2022 · ETS
German Steel Industry Warns Against Concentrating Chemical Agency Power
Meeting with Peter Liese (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG
5 Oct 2022 · ETS
Meeting with Jens Gieseke (Member of the European Parliament)
4 Jul 2022 · Austausch zur Industriepolitik
German steel industry urges EU to scrap forced labor ban
German steel industry slams new EU industrial emissions portal proposal
Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl urges special status for unavoidable carbon
German steel industry rejects 'overloaded' EU industrial emissions rules
Meeting with Henrike Hahn (Member of the European Parliament)
31 May 2022 · ETS
Meeting with Svenja Hahn (Member of the European Parliament)
30 May 2022 · Trade policy
German steel industry urges practical EU supply chain rules
Meeting with Malte Gallée (Member of the European Parliament)
3 May 2022 · The EU Waste Shipment Regulation
Meeting with Jens Geier (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and WindEurope and
28 Apr 2022 · Exchange on the gas market directive
Response to Review: Restriction of the use of hazardous substances in electronics
14 Mar 2022
Response to Evaluation and revision of the Weights and Dimensions Directive
18 Feb 2022
Meeting with Markus Pieper (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and EUROGAS and WACKER CHEMIE AG
25 Nov 2021 · RED III
German Steel Industry Demands Delay of Carbon Border Tariff Until 2030
German steel industry warns ETS revision threatens climate transition
Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)
19 Oct 2021 · Green transition : fit for 55, state aid
Response to Land use, land use change and forestry – review of EU rules
2 Sept 2021
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
2 Jul 2021 · WV would like to discuss their views two on-going files: CBAM and ETS
Meeting with Mauro Raffaele Petriccione (Director-General Climate Action)
25 Feb 2021 · Decarbonisation of the steel industry
Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)
26 Jan 2021 · Steel action concept between German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the steel industry in Germany
Meeting with Katherine Power (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness) and The European Steel Association
14 Jan 2021 · EU Taxonomy
Meeting with Florika Fink-Hooijer (Director-General Environment)
16 Dec 2020 · Presentation of ongoing initiatives and circular economy
Response to Revision of the Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (EEAG)
10 Dec 2020
Meeting with Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
1 Dec 2020 · Exchange on the German Steel Action Concept
German Steel Association Urges Stronger Carbon Leakage Protection
Response to EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work [2021-2027]
24 Nov 2020
Response to Revision of lists of pollutants affecting surface and groundwaters
20 Nov 2020
Response to EU Action Plan Towards a Zero Pollution Ambition for air, water and soil
29 Oct 2020
Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)
23 Sept 2020 · At the meeting they presented the German Steel Action Plan and discuss linked EU Green Deal and Industry Strategy measures.
Meeting with Antoine Colombani (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
7 Sept 2020 · European Green Deal and recovery
Response to Environmental claims based on environmental footprint methods
14 Aug 2020
German steel industry insists CBAM must supplement free certificates
Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)
23 Oct 2019 · EU-US relations, Trade defence measures
German steel industry demands full compensation for indirect carbon costs
Meeting with Kilian Gross (Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger)
25 Jun 2018 · FP9
Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)
8 Jun 2018 · steel state-of-play
Response to Fitness Check of the Water Framework Directive and the Floods Directive
17 Nov 2017
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
6 Nov 2016 · RT on steel
Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)
14 Jul 2016 · steel sector
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner) and The European Steel Association
1 Mar 2016 · Trade policy
Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)
23 Jun 2015 · Situation of steel industry in Germany