MEP of the week

Lobby organisation

Metsäliitto Cooperative

Company · Chemicals & manufacturing · HQ: Finland · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, Metsäliitto Cooperative appears in 19 declared MEP meetings (7 different MEPs), most often with Renew Europe.

19
declared meetings
with current MEPs
7
MEPs met
€200k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
1.9
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Metsä Group is a responsible forest industry group who produces high-quality products mostly from renewable Nordic wood and wood fibre. Our core businesses are tissue and cooking papers, board, pulp, wood products, wood supply and forest management services. Metsä Group also has innovation company.”

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“It works actively in research and development in order to develop new products and to diversify the use of our current products. The Group tries to find ways to use its wood raw material more efficiently. Metsä Group follows and takes interest in the development of regulatory frameworks affecting our operations and markets. We promote among others sustainable forest management and sustainable sourcing, resource-wise circular bioeconomy and the role of forest-based industries in achieving the objectives of the EU Green Deal & Clean Deal. The group’s overall aim is to guarantee the global competitiveness of the European forest industry to maintain and increase industrial production in Europe.”

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

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 19 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

Renew Europe842%
European People's Party632%
Greens/EFA421%
Socialists & Democrats15%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (5 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2019
1
2020
1
2021
0
2022
4
2023
3
2024
4
2025
5
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

Sirpa Pietikäinen
6 meetings · EPP
Elsi Katainen
4 meetings · Renew
Ville Niinistö
4 meetings · Greens/EFA
Martin Hojsík
2 meetings · Renew
Eero Heinäluoma
1 meeting · S&D

The 15 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
15 Oct 2026Katri KulmuniMetsä- ja biotalouden EU-ajankohtaiset
20 Nov 2025Eero HeinäluomaAjankohtaiset metsä­teollisuusasiat
2 Jul 2025Elsi KatainenTopical issues in the forest sector
21 May 2025Sirpa PietikäinenRegenerative forestry
30 Apr 2025Elsi KatainenEUDR and forest monitoring
26 Feb 2025Ana VasconcelosBioeconomy Strategy
14 Oct 2024Elsi KatainenMetsäkatoasetuksen tilanne
17 Jul 2024Ville NiinistöUpcoming climate legislation
16 Jan 2024Sirpa PietikäinenForest monitoring framework
10 Jan 2024Elsi KatainenForest monitoring
15 Nov 2023Martin HojsíkSoil Health Law
18 Oct 2023Sirpa PietikäinenPPWR
15 Feb 2023Sirpa PietikäinenEU Nature Restoration Law, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive
5 Jul 2022Sirpa PietikäinenRED II revision, LULUCF
27 Apr 2022Ville NiinistöRED Finland forests - staff level

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