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Industry & sector

Who lobbies the Parliament on chemicals & manufacturing?

Organisations classified under Chemicals & manufacturing account for 4,423 declared MEP meetings across the 2019–2026 full record for current MEPs, and the business lobbyists among them self-report about €104M a year in EU lobbying budgets. (As of 14 September 2026.)

Most active organisations

OrganisationCategoryMeetingsMEPs met
BASF SE Business / industry17678
CEFIC - European Chemical Industry Council Business / industry16267
The European Steel Association Business / industry14075
Finnish Forest Industries Federation (Metsäteollisuus ry) Business / industry13725
Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. Business / industry11234
ArcelorMittal Business / industry9850
VDMA e.V. Business / industry9044
Orgalim – Europe's Technology Industries Business / industry8652
European Aluminium AISBL Business / industry7954
The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment Business / industry7862
Technology Industries of Finland (Teknologiateollisuus ry) Business / industry7426
APPLiA (Home Appliance Europe) Business / industry6451

Also active here: organisations whose main sector is elsewhere but which this site also places in chemicals & manufacturing - Neste Oyj, UNIFE, Hyundai Motor Company Brussels Office, Industriegewerkschaft Metall, European Boating Industry, Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V., European Solar Manufacturing Council, OHB, Association of European Automotive and Industrial Battery Manufacturers, ORLEN S.A., Moeve, AEGIS Europe, OMV Aktiengesellschaft, TEREOS, Fédération belge des industries chimiques et des sciences de la vie, Horse Powertrain, European Federation of Associations of Health Product Manufacturers, Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik e.V., Decathlon SE, Isar Aerospace SE, PHINIA, EUTurbines, HEXANA, LATITUDE, Sympower B.V., AZOMURES SA, Ball Beverage Packaging Europe Limited, Cummins Ltd., SQM Europe N.V., Bundesverband Glasindustrie e.V., ClonBio Group Ltd, Emerson Electric Co., Fédération Nationale des Activités de Dépollution et de l'Environnement, Iridium Communications Inc., Proxima Fusion, ​ASM International Naamloze Vennootschap, Equinix (EMEA) Holdings B.V., Industriegaseverband e.V., Novana Oy, CARBIOS, GKN Aerospace, Global Sea Mineral Resources, Verband Deutscher Büchsenmacher und Waffenfachhändler.

MEPs most met by chemicals & manufacturing organisations

Peter Liese
154 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Jens Geier
120 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Christian Ehler
117 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Elsi Katainen
88 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Bruno Tobback
80 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Eero Heinäluoma
72 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Hildegard Bentele
71 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Andrea Wechsler
67 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Martin Hojsík
66 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing
Katri Kulmuni
65 meetings in Chemicals & manufacturing

Sector labels are a keyword classification computed by this site over organisation names, goals and register categories - see methodology.