MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

BASF SE

Company · Chemicals & manufacturing also Finance, Agriculture & food · HQ: Germany · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, BASF SE appears in 206 declared MEP meetings (85 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

206
declared meetings
with current MEPs
85
MEPs met
€4.5M/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
22.9
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. Our ambition: We want to be the preferred chemical company to enable our customers’ green transformation. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 108,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world.”

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“Our portfolio comprises, as core businesses, the segments Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, and Nutrition & Care; our standalone businesses are bundled in the segments Surface Technologies and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of around €60 billion in 2025. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the United States. Further information at www.basf.com.”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 206 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party8742%
Socialists & Democrats4220%
Renew Europe4120%
Greens/EFA199%
European Conservatives & Reformists178%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (63 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2019
3
2020
9
2021
10
2022
13
2023
17
2024
44
2025
63
2026
47

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Peter Liese
14 meetings · EPP
Jens Geier
13 meetings · S&D
Jens Gieseke
11 meetings · EPP
Christian Ehler
10 meetings · EPP
Norbert Lins
9 meetings · EPP

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
3 Nov 2026Pietro FiocchiChemicals
15 Oct 2026Norbert HerhammerIndustrie- und Energie­politik
14 Oct 2026César LuenaIndustrial emmissions
12 Oct 2026Bruno TobbackETS Review
9 Oct 2026Peter LieseAustausch
8 Oct 2026Oliver SchenkRoundtable: Exchange of views on the European Chips Act 2.0
7 Oct 2026Jens GeierExchange on Industrial Accelerator Act
1 Oct 2026Wouter BekeETS
29 Sep 2026Norbert HerhammerIndustrie­politik und Klimaschutz
24 Sep 2026Jan-Christoph OetjenETS
18 Sep 2026Jutta PaulusEnvironmental Omnibus
9 Sep 2026Pierfrancesco MaranETS
9 Sep 2026Norbert LinsIndustrial­Accelerator­Act, europäische Bat­te­rie­wert­schöp­fungs­kette
3 Sep 2026Pierfrancesco MaranENVI Committee Priorities
31 Aug 2026Andrea WechslerEU Industrial policy

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