Lobby organisation
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.
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.
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.
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
The 15 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2026 | Maria Walsh | Agricultural Policy |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Beatrice Timgren | Potting soil in Europe |
| 28 May 2026 | Piotr Müller | Omnibus VI |
| 27 Mar 2026 | Silvia Sardone | ENVI - GROWING |
| 13 Mar 2026 | Piotr Müller | Omnibus VI |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Piotr Müller | Omnibus VI |
| 4 Feb 2026 | Stefano Cavedagna | Introductory meeting |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Pietro Fiocchi | tematiche ambientali |
| 28 Nov 2025 | Antonella Sberna | The role of growing media in environmental and agricultural policies, sustainable food system, healthy diets |
| 20 Nov 2025 | Isabella Tovaglieri | Situazione della torba in Europa |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Jessika van Leeuwen | Growing Media |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Sander Smit | Growing media |
| 9 Apr 2025 | Norbert Lins | Kultursubstrate im Gartenbau |
| 13 Nov 2024 | Sander Smit | Growing Media |
| 28 Sep 2023 | Martin Hojsík | Soil Health Law |
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