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The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment

Business group · Chemicals & manufacturing · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment appears in 88 declared MEP meetings (65 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

88
declared meetings
with current MEPs
65
MEPs met
€500k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
1.9
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“EUROPEN (the European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment) is a cross-industry organisation representing the packaging value chain in Europe on topics related to packaging, packaging waste and the environment, independent of any specific packaging material, technology or system.”

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“EUROPEN strives to improve the environmental performance of packaging and packaged products based on life-cycle thinking, secure the free flow of packaging and packaged goods throughout Europe and promote harmonised European and national packaging and packaging waste laws.”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 88 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party2731%
Socialists & Democrats2124%
European Conservatives & Reformists1214%
Patriots for Europe1214%
Renew Europe89%
Greens/EFA67%
Non-attached11%
The Left11%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2021–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (32 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2021
2
2022
1
2023
9
2024
14
2025
32
2026
30

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

Bruno Tobback
6 meetings · S&D
César Luena
5 meetings · S&D
Pietro Fiocchi
3 meetings · ECR
Massimiliano Salini
2 meetings · EPP
Salvatore de Meo
2 meetings · EPP

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
29 Sep 2026Bruno TobbackCircular Economy Act and EPR
8 Sep 2026Norbert LinsPPWR / Single-Use Plastics Directive
9 Jul 2026Bruno TobbackCircular Economy Act
9 Jun 2026Peter LieseAustausch
1 Jun 2026Pierfrancesco MaranCircular Economy and packaging
4 May 2026Maria GuzeninaExchange of views on Circular Economy Act
23 Apr 2026Nikola MinchevExchange of views
16 Apr 2026Delara BurkhardtEPR
9 Apr 2026Ingeborg ter LaakENVI Omnibus - AR suspensions
9 Apr 2026Dóra DávidCircular Economy Act, Single Market Strategy
8 Apr 2026Bruno TobbackCircular Economy Act - Single Market
8 Apr 2026Anna CavazziniSingle Market Strategy, and Circular Economy Act (CEA).
31 Mar 2026Bruno Tobbackprep-briefing call event creating a single market for circular economy products and materials
27 Mar 2026Giorgio GoriPPWR, Circular Economy Act
20 Mar 2026Julie RechagneuxActe sur l'économie circulaire

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