Lobby organisation
KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
Company · Agriculture & food · HQ: Germany · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA appears in 22 declared MEP meetings (15 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.
In their own words
“KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Around 5,000 employees (excluding seasonal workers) in over 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in fiscal 2024/2025. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years.”
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“It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflowers. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested approximately €350 million in fiscal year 2024/2025 in research and development.”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 22 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2022–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (6 in 2025). 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2026 | Pierfrancesco Maran | New Genomic Techniques |
| 21 May 2026 | Christine Singer | Trilogergebnis NGTs |
| 13 May 2026 | Norbert Lins | NGTs und PRM |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Pietro Fiocchi | Industry |
| 2 Sep 2025 | Martin Häusling | Gespräch zu NGTs |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Pietro Fiocchi | Tematiche ambientali |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Martin Häusling | Veranstaltung zu NGT und Patenten |
| 25 Mar 2025 | Bernd Lange | General Exchange of View |
| 25 Mar 2025 | Stefan Köhler | Politischer Austausch |
| 21 Jan 2025 | Benoit Cassart | Sustainable feeding |
| 13 Nov 2024 | Krzysztof Hetman | Meeting on New Genome Technices |
| 13 Nov 2024 | Elisabetta Gualmini | AGRI Committee |
| 25 Sep 2024 | Ştefan Muşoiu | Presentation of the company's activity in the field of agriculture |
| 12 Feb 2024 | Norbert Lins | Dinner on Policy Developments in Seed Sector |
| 24 Nov 2023 | Herbert Dorfmann | PRM |
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