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European Healthcare Distribution Association

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

As of 9 September 2026, European Healthcare Distribution Association appears in 17 declared MEP meetings (13 different MEPs), most often with Socialists & Democrats.

17
declared meetings
with current MEPs
13
MEPs met
€50,000/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
11.0
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“GIRP, the European Healthcare Distribution Association, is a non-profit organisation, representing systemic wholesalers across Europe. Our members play a vital role in ensuring a reliable and efficient healthcare supply chain, getting more than 62 million packs of medicines from more than 3.500 manufacturers to around 180.000 community pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare professionals. Our mission is to advance the healthcare distribution…”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 17 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Socialists & Democrats529%
Greens/EFA424%
European People's Party318%
Patriots for Europe212%
Renew Europe212%
European Conservatives & Reformists16%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (8 in 2025).

2020
2
2021
2
2022
2
2023
0
2024
2
2025
8
2026
1

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

Tilly Metz
3 meetings · Greens/EFA
Tiemo Wölken
2 meetings · S&D
Laurent Castillo
2 meetings · PfE
Alex Agius Saliba
1 meeting · S&D
Tomislav Sokol
1 meeting · EPP

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
11 Jun 2026Tiemo WölkenGeneral Exchange on Health Policy
12 Nov 2025Laurent CastilloPharma
11 Nov 2025Sérgio HumbertoCocktail Reception GIRP
1 Jul 2025Kristoffer StormCritical Medicines Act
1 Jul 2025Tomislav SokolHealth policy
25 Jun 2025Mohammed ChahimRoundtable Critical Medicines Act
24 Jun 2025Tiemo WölkenPharma Package and Critical Medicines Act
13 Jun 2025Tilly MetzCritical Medicines Act
21 Mar 2025Stine BosseEuropean health policy
13 Nov 2024Laurent CastilloRôle des grossistes répartiteurs dans l'UE et en France
17 Jan 2024Tilly MetzPharma Package
16 Nov 2022Dolors MontserratLessons learned on impact of COVID-19 pandemic
5 May 2022Andreas GlückCovid19-Pandamic
27 Apr 2021Alex Agius Salibato discuss Commission's proposal on the resilience of critical entities
21 Jan 2021Nicolás González CasaresEMA

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