Health & Environment Alliance

HEAL is member of a range of organisations from health, medical, environmental, climate civil society on specific topics, or in coalitions, to engage, raise awareness and advocate for more health-protective policies:
• Civil Society Europe via the Green 10
• Collaborative on Health and Environment (CHE)
• EDC-Free Europe
• EU Food Policy Coalition
• Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA)
• Green 10, the group of leading environmental NGOs at EU level
• International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (FIGO) – Committee on Climate Change and Toxic Environmental Exposures
• International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) Steering Committee
• Justice Pesticides
• Europe Beyond Fossil Fuels

HEAL is a partner in and collaborates with organisations, institutions and leading experts in the following EU research projects:
ATHLETE - Advancing Tools for Human Early Life course Exposome Research and Translation
POLYRISK - Understanding human exposure and health hazard of micro- and nanoplastic contaminants in our environment
UBDPolicy - Urban Burden of Disease Policy
CATALYSE - Climate Action To Advance HeaLthY Societies in Europe
MERLON - Merging scientific evidence with regulatory practices and leveraging identification of endocrine disruptors using new approach methodologies
IHEN - International Human Exposome Network

HEAL is an accredited stakeholder with the United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) and member of the following expert groups and networks:

World Health Organization (WHO):
• WHO Chemical Safety Network
• WHO Civil Society Working Group on climate change and health
• WHO Environmental Health Economics Network (EHEN)
• WHO European Environment and Health Task Force and Bureau (EHTF)
• WHO European Working Group on Climate change and Health (HIC)
• WHO Non-communicable disease (NCD) Advisory Council
• HEAL also regularly participates in the meeting of the WHO/LRTAP Joint Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air Pollution

EU institutional level:

EU Commission
• Observer to DG SANTE Advisory Group – Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health
• Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform

EU Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
• ECHA Member State Committee
• ECHA ED Expert group
• ECHA Management Board via our NGO seat
• Advisory Group on the dissemination of public information about chemical substances
• EU EDCs Strategy Ad hoc Group

None declared

Does not represent commercial interests

Mar 2023 - Feb 2024

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

2,015,656€

For an overview of HEAL's financing and annual reports see here: https://www.env-health.org/about/financing-funding/

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This includes implementation of the EU Green Deal and its strategies, Resilience and Recovery Facility, 8th EU Environmental Action Programme, as well as the ambient air quality, industrial emissions directive, pesticides and chemicals regulations.

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37 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	07 Nov 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Transition towards sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Energy Union
  Attending	Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs

• Date	07 Nov 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Transition towards sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
  Attending	Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	CEE Bankwatch Network

• Date	19 Sep 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Keynote speech at the Climate and Health Adaptation conference
  DG	Climate Action
  Attending	Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General)

• Date	14 Mar 2023	Location	video-call
  Subject	Implementation of the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and PFAS related measures
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring Trust

• Date	14 Mar 2023	Location	Virtual
  Subject	Implementation of the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and PFAS related measures
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Elena Montani (Cabinet member)

• Date	07 Dec 2022	Location	Virtual
  Subject	Follow-up on HEAL's stepping down from the High-Level Roundtable on the Chemicals Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Elena Montani (Cabinet member)

• Date	08 Nov 2022	Location	video-call
  Subject	Air quality
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)

• Date	08 Nov 2022	Location	Virtual
  Subject	reaction on AAQD
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Elena Montani (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Oct 2022	Location	Bruxelles
  Subject	VTC meeting on health and environmental civil society air quality
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member) Daphne von Buxhoeveden (Cabinet member)

• Date	07 Sep 2022	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	To exchange views, upon HEAL’s request, on the upcoming Commission proposal for a revision of the Ambient Air Quality directives
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) Elena Montani (Cabinet member)

• Date	11 Apr 2022	Location	online
  Subject	Delay to EU Pesticide Reduction Exposes Citizens to Increased Health Risks
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski
  Portfolio	Agriculture
  Attending	Joanna Stawowy (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Mar 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VTC meeting: Revision of the SUD Proposal
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member) Giorgios Rossides (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Environmental Bureau

• Date	08 Dec 2021	Location	video-call
  Subject	EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and PFAS
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring Trust

• Date	08 Dec 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and PFAS
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Joan Canton (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	International Pollutants Elimination Network

• Date	08 Dec 2021	Location	Virtual
  Subject	To discuss the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and PFAS
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Andrea Vettori (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring Trust

• Date	03 Dec 2021	Location	Online
  Subject	Discussion on upcoming Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Markets Package (adoption foreseen for 14.12.2021)
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson
  Portfolio	Energy
  Attending	Tatiana Marquez Uriarte (Cabinet member) Kadri Simson (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd

• Date	14 Oct 2021	Location	Virtual
  Subject	To discuss the endocrine disrupting chemicals & cosmetics
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Camilla Bursi (Cabinet member)

• Date	24 Jun 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Discussions on the implementation of the chemicals strategy for sustainability.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Joan Canton (Cabinet member) Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Climate Action Network Europe ClientEarth AISBL

• Date	05 May 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Implementation of the chemicals strategy for sustainability
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

• Date	12 Jan 2021	Location	Virtual
  Subject	To discuss the implementation of the Biodiversity strategy, the actions under the zero-pollution ambition as well as green funding under the new MFF and the recovery funds.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) Camilla Bursi (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Stichting BirdLife Europe WWF European Policy Programme

• Date	23 Jul 2020	Location	Virtual
  Subject	To discuss the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, especially with relation with endocrine disruptors.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet member) Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	ClientEarth AISBL

• Date	03 Jun 2020	Location	VC meeting
  Subject	Chemicals Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment)

• Date	15 Apr 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Priorities for the Coronavirus recovery
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Greenpeace European Unit

• Date	07 Sep 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EDC Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Apr 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Circular Economy agenda and the chemicals/environmental/health policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Apr 2018	Location	Brussels, BERL
  Subject	discussion on EU chemicals policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Helena Braun (Cabinet member)

• Date	20 Apr 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	General Food Law
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Greenpeace European Unit Corporate Europe Observatory

• Date	11 Oct 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Discussion on Food Contact Materials
  DG	Health and Food Safety
  Attending	Xavier Prats Monné (Director-General)
  Other Lobbyists	ClientEarth AISBL

• Date	01 Feb 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	A Union of Democratic Change; Energy Union; Jobs, Growth and Investment; A stronger Global Actor
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Telmo Baltazar (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	WWF European Policy Programme

• Date	08 Jun 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Commission proposal on scientific criteria to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas
  Portfolio	Research, Science and Innovation
  Attending	Robert Schröder (Cabinet member)

• Date	25 Feb 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Criteria of endocrine disruptors
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring Trust

• Date	17 Sep 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Environment Council Preparation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete
  Portfolio	Climate Action & Energy
  Attending	Yvon Slingenberg (Cabinet member) Pierre Schellekens (Cabinet member) Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	WWF European Policy Programme CEE Bankwatch Network Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment)

• Date	30 Apr 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	International climate talks ans EU climate diplomacy. State of play of legislative files
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete
  Portfolio	Climate Action & Energy
  Attending	Isaac Valero Ladron (Cabinet member) Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner)

• Date	13 Feb 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting with Representatives of Green 10 on CWP 2015
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Stichting BirdLife Europe

• Date	15 Jan 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting on principles of scientific advice
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas
  Portfolio	Research, Science and Innovation
  Attending	Giulia Del Brenna (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Greenpeace European Unit

• Date	15 Jan 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Follow-up to Lima and climate action diplomacy up to Paris / Energy Union (state of play)
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete
  Portfolio	Climate Action & Energy
  Attending	Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner) Isaac Valero Ladron (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	CEE Bankwatch Network

• Date	18 Dec 2014	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Energy Union
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Telmo Baltazar (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Climate Action Network Europe