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Lobby organisation

COMITE EUROPEEN des FABRICANTS de SUCRE

Business / industry · Agriculture & food · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 9 September 2026, COMITE EUROPEEN des FABRICANTS de SUCRE appears in 14 declared MEP meetings (13 different MEPs), most often with Patriots for Europe.

14
declared meetings
with current MEPs
13
MEPs met
€50,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
1.5
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“CEFS is a non profit-making international organisation with a scientific object, based in Brussels. CEFS missions are: 1- to carry-out studies relating to agricultural and technological problems connected with the sugar industry 2- to examine questions concerning food and health 3- to organise meetings of a scientific and/or technical nature 4- to collect, to this effect, information of a statistical…”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 14 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Patriots for Europe429%
Renew Europe429%
European People's Party321%
Socialists & Democrats214%
Non-attached17%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (5 in 2024).

2020
1
2021
0
2022
0
2023
2
2024
5
2025
3
2026
3

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

Benoit Cassart
2 meetings · Renew
Norbert Lins
1 meeting · EPP
Valérie Hayer
1 meeting · Renew
Isabella Tovaglieri
1 meeting · PfE
Alexander Bernhuber
1 meeting · EPP

The 14 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
17 Feb 2026Isabella TovaglieriSugar policies in Europe
17 Feb 2026Raphaël GlucksmannInternational Trade
11 Feb 2026Anna BryłkaThe issue of the sugar sector in Poland in the context of opening the EU market to agricultural imports.
9 Dec 2025Benoit CassartPrix du sucre
25 Nov 2025Valérie DelogeSituation du marché du sucre de l'UE
5 Jun 2025Benoit CassartRelation UE-Ukraine
22 Nov 2024Cristina MaestreIntroductory meeting with Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre
8 Nov 2024András GyürkOverview of EU sugar industry priorities
2 Oct 2024Carmen Crespo DíazEuropean Association of Sugar Manufacturers
1 Oct 2024Valérie HayerSucre
26 Sep 2024Katarína Roth NeveďalováSustainable sugar production in the EU
17 Nov 2023Alexander BernhuberBreakfast directives
28 Sep 2023Martin HojsíkSoil Health Law
23 Sep 2020Norbert LinsCAP and MRLs

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