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Primary Food Processors

Business group · Agriculture & food · HQ: Belgium · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, Primary Food Processors appears in 3 declared MEP meetings (3 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

3
declared meetings
with current MEPs
3
MEPs met
€25k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
0.2
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“PFP's mission is to represent the European primary food processing industries' interests, at the level of both European and international institutions. In order to fulfill its mission, PFP has three principal functions: 1. to promote the European primary food processing industry's views to the European institutions, international organisations and other interested bodies; 2.”

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“to improve understanding of its operational requirements, especially in responding to Members of the European Parliament, European Commission's consultative bodies and services, international organisations' consultations and through liaison with other parties, in particular the European farmers and partners in the food supply chain; 3. to provide information and advice to its members on a wide range of common subjects […]”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing - the text on file breaks off mid-sentence where marked […].

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 3 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group. Every meeting was with a single group.

European People's Party3100%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2020–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (1 in 2020). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2020
1
2021
0
2022
1
2023
0
2024
0
2025
0
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

Norbert Lins
1 meeting · EPP
Tomislav Sokol
1 meeting · EPP
Pascal Arimont
1 meeting · EPP

The 3 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
9 Sep 2026Tomislav SokolIndustrial policy
21 Apr 2022Pascal ArimontEnergetic self-use of biomass residues for decarbonisation
14 Oct 2020Norbert LinsClimate change and its effects on agriculture

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