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Growing Media Europe

NGO or non-profit · Agriculture & food · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, Growing Media Europe appears in 18 declared MEP meetings (15 different MEPs), most often with European Conservatives & Reformists.

18
declared meetings
with current MEPs
15
MEPs met
€600k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
4.8
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Growing Media Europe AISBL is an international non-profit organisation representing the producers of growing media and soil improvers at European level. Our main objective is to promote optimum legislation for the manufacturing as well as the free trade of growing media and soil improver within Europe and beyond.”

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“Coordinating our work with the member companies and associate members all over Europe, we aim to ensure a single voice for the industry. We provide scientific information as well as technical expertise on the use of growing media products and act as focal point for political decision makers and stakeholders inside and outside the European Institutions. Growing Media Europe is committed to the highest environmental standards, to the sustainable use of natural resources and to contributing to the competitiveness of the European horticultural sector by providing high quality growing media products.”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 18 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European Conservatives & Reformists1056%
European People's Party317%
Greens/EFA211%
Patriots for Europe211%
Renew Europe16%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (8 in 2026). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2020
1
2021
1
2022
1
2023
1
2024
1
2025
5
2026
8

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

Piotr Müller
3 meetings · ECR
Sander Smit
2 meetings · ECR
Norbert Lins
1 meeting · EPP
Jutta Paulus
1 meeting · Greens/EFA
Silvia Sardone
1 meeting · PfE

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
15 Oct 2026Maria WalshAgricultural Policy
30 Sep 2026Beatrice TimgrenPotting soil in Europe
28 May 2026Piotr MüllerOmnibus VI
27 Mar 2026Silvia SardoneENVI - GROWING
13 Mar 2026Piotr MüllerOmnibus VI
12 Mar 2026Piotr MüllerOmnibus VI
4 Feb 2026Stefano CavedagnaIntroductory meeting
27 Jan 2026Pietro Fiocchitematiche ambientali
28 Nov 2025Antonella SbernaThe role of growing media in environmental and agricultural policies, sustainable food system, healthy diets
20 Nov 2025Isabella TovaglieriSituazione della torba in Europa
18 Nov 2025Jessika van LeeuwenGrowing Media
18 Nov 2025Sander SmitGrowing media
9 Apr 2025Norbert LinsKultursubstrate im Gartenbau
13 Nov 2024Sander SmitGrowing Media
28 Sep 2023Martin HojsíkSoil Health Law

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