MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Bayer AG

Business / industry · Health & pharma · HQ: Germany · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, Bayer AG appears in 139 declared MEP meetings (80 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

139
declared meetings
with current MEPs
80
MEPs met
€6.0M/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
20.0
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time. The Bayer Group is managed as a life science company with three divisions – Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health and…”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 139 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party7151%
Renew Europe2719%
Socialists & Democrats2518%
Greens/EFA96%
European Conservatives & Reformists64%
Patriots for Europe11%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (42 in 2025).

2020
3
2021
2
2022
17
2023
13
2024
33
2025
42
2026
29

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

Norbert Lins
10 meetings · EPP
Peter Liese
5 meetings · EPP
Andreas Glück
5 meetings · Renew
Laura Ballarín Cereza
4 meetings · S&D

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
17 Jun 2026András Tivadar KuljaNovel food
16 Jun 2026Carmen Crespo DíazPlant Health
1 Jun 2026Sirpa PietikäinenWomen's health
13 May 2026Peter LieseAustausch
13 May 2026Pietro FiocchiNGTs
13 May 2026Vytenis Povilas AndriukaitisBiotech Act
12 May 2026Bruno TobbackNGTs
12 May 2026Jessica PolfjärdNGT policy
12 May 2026Pierfrancesco MaranNew Genomic Techniques
12 May 2026Pierfrancesco MaranChemical Omnibus
5 May 2026Michalis HadjipantelaCompetitive Europe Salon Dinner
4 May 2026Wouter BekeEU Biotech Act I
28 Apr 2026Norbert LinsNGTs
20 Apr 2026Pascal ArimontEnvironmental Omnibus
16 Apr 2026Jessica PolfjärdGMM

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