Cargill

Cargill is a member of a number of European trade associations given the numerous product areas in which it operates. These include:

Starch Europe
Fediol (EU Oil and Protein meal Industry)
Coceral (Comité du Commerce des céréales, aliments du bétail, oléagineux, huile d'olive, huiles et graisses et agrofournitures)
ECA (European Cocoa Association)
FoodDrinkEurope,
Amcham EU (American Chamber of Commerce)
Biopolymers International
EBB (European Biodiesel Board)
ELMA (European Lecithin Manufacturers' Association)
EPA (European Association of Polyol Producers)
ePure (European Renewable Ethanol Industry Association)
EUFIC (European Food Information Council)
EUVEPRO (European Vegetable Protein Association)
EWABA (European Waste-based & Advanced Biofuels Association)
FEFAC (European Feed Manufacturers' Federation), via national associations
Gafta (Grain and feed trade association)
ICGA (International Chewing Gum Association)
iEthanol (Industrial Ethanol Association)
IPPA (International Pectin Producers' Association)
MARINALG (World Association of Seaweed processors)
Wheat Protein Association
EU Specialty Food Ingredients
FEFANA (EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures)
European Bioplastics
APIC (CEFIC Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Committee)
IPEC (International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council)
SNE (Specialized Nutrition Europe), via national association (BSNA)
IPSSA – International Plant Sterols and Stanols Association

None declared

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Jun 2022 - May 2023

300,000€ - 399,999€

None declared

300,000€ - 399,999€

The estimated cost above represents about a third of the fully loaded in-house costs of our EMEA Government Relations team (located in Mechelen (Belgium)).
This represents the costs associated with direct lobbying including participation in direct lobbying activities of the relevant trade associations.
Other costs arise from information gathering and policy monitoring, the interpretation of that information, its internal dissemination, internal communication and discussions of business interests in relation to policy changes.
Note that this amount does not cover our expenditure on the trade association memberships outlined above.
These memberships provide us with a variety of EU policy support activities. We expect these trade associations to register themselves how much of their budgets are devoted to direct lobbying.
We employ one consultancy, Acumen, on a retainer basis to assist us with intelligence gathering and ad hoc representation on a number of files. Its costs are included in the amount above.

none

N/A

Publication of Annual Report, ESG Scorecard and sustainable supply chain reports

None declared

13 meetings found. Download meetings

The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

• Date	22 Nov 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Regenerative agriculture and carbon removal certification
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Olivia Gippner (Cabinet member)

• Date	20 Mar 2023	Location	Virtual
  Subject	To discuss the Cargill 2022 ESG Report, Sustainability strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Elena Montani (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 Dec 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 Dec 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Workshop on the transition towards sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Syngenta Crop Protection AG

• Date	21 Sep 2022	Location	virtual
  Subject	Energy derivatives market
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
  Portfolio	Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Credit Suisse Group AG HSBC Holdings PLC

• Date	02 Jun 2021	Location	video call
  Subject	Discussion on the sector’s perspective on the Refuel Aviation initiative.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet member) Daniel Mes (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	EWABA Argent Energy

• Date	08 Mar 2021	Location	conference call
  Subject	waste-based biodiesel leaders on SAF
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean
  Portfolio	Transport
  Attending	Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	EWABA

• Date	19 Nov 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Bio-economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas
  Portfolio	Research, Science and Innovation
  Attending	Robert Schröder (Cabinet member)

• Date	25 Sep 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Futures Markets
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
  Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
  Attending	Shane Sutherland (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 Sep 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Food Ingredients and Bio Issues
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
  Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
  Attending	Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

• Date	12 Nov 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Joint mtg energy assoc/Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Lee Foulger (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Energy UK

• Date	01 Jul 2015	Location	Milano
  Subject	IoT and H2020
  DG	Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  Attending	Robert Madelin (Director-General)

• Date	03 Jun 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	New College and Better Regulation
  DG	Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  Attending	Robert Madelin (Director-General)
  Other Lobbyists	European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology