Overview
Lobbying Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF) (IPIFF)
EU Transparency Register
845856417247-32 First registered on 06 May 2015
Goals / Remit
IPIFF is an EU non-profit organisation which represents the interests of the insect production sector towards EU policy makers, European stakeholders and citizens. Composed of 75 members, most of which are European insect producing companies, IPIFF promotes the use of insect-derived products as top tier source of nutrients for human consumption, animal feed and plants (e.g. use for insect frass as fertiliser) through continuous dialogue with EU decision makers (i.e. European Commission, EU Member States authorities, European Parliament and the European Food Safety Authority). Notably, IPIFF centres its activities around advocating for appropriate EU legislative frameworks to apply to insect production.
The association also supports its members in the effective implementation of EU food and feed safety and labelling legislations as well as EU rules applicable to the marketing of fertilising products, such as through the promotion and/or development of shared standards.Main EU files targeted
EU Regulations of relevance for our organisation (non-exhaustive list)
- Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
- Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption.
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption.
- Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed.
- Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1017 on the Catalogue of feed materials.
- Directive 2002/32/EC on undesirable substances in animal feed.
- Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 laying down requirements for feed hygiene.
- Regulation (EU) No 2015/2283 on Novel Foods
- Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2469 laying down administrative and scientific requirements for applications referred to in Article 10 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council on novel foods
- Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers
- Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 laying down the general principles of food law
- Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs
- Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin
- Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 of 15 November 2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs
- Regulation (EU) No 2018/848 on organic production and labelling of organic products
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1605 supplementing Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 as regards the determination of end points in the manufacturing chain of certain organic fertilisers and soil improvers
- Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 laying down rules on the making available on the market of EU fertilising products
EU policies or initiatives of relevance for our organisation (non-exhaustive list). For further details, see the 'IPIFF Policy Roadmap' from November 2024, available on the IPIFF website (in the section 'brochures and guidance documents')
- EU 'Green Deal'
- Farm to Fork strategy and several of its derived implementing initiatives (e.g. proposal for a legislative framework for sustainable food systems, development of an EU code and monitoring framework for responsible business and marketing conduct in the food supply chain, proposal for a sustainable food labelling framework, reviewing of the EU promotion programme for agricultural and food products)
- Expected revision/update of the EU Protein Strategy
- EU Bioeconomy Strategy and Circular Economy Act
- Forthcoming discussions on the EU Common Agricultural Policy post 2027
- Clean Industrial Deal and Industrial Decarbonisation Act
- EU Start up and scaleup Strategy and European Economy Act
- EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
- EU Public Procurement DirectivesAddress
Head Office
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Brussels 1000
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BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 15 Jan 2025
Name Start date End Date Steven BARBOSA 11 Dec 2024 11 Dec 2025 Eduard TSVETANOV 17 Jan 2024 04 Oct 2024 Christophe DERRIEN 17 Jan 2024 04 Oct 2024 Steven BARBOSA 17 Jan 2024 04 Oct 2024 Steven BARBOSA 13 Sep 2022 13 Sep 2023 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
Aquaculture Advisory Council
https://www.aac-europe.org/en/
European Food Safety Stakeholder Forum
https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/REPORT%20SECOND%20MEETING%20OF%20EFSA%20STAKEHOLDER%20FORUM%202019.pdf
EFSA Stakeholder Discussion Group on Emerging Risk (StaDG-ER)
EU Feed Chain Task Force
InnovProtein EU Alliance
EU CAP Network Assembly
Global Network on Insect Agriculture (GRIA)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
300,000€ - 399,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Civil Dialogue Group (CDG) on Organic Farming#E03881#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3881 #MEMBER #C#IndustryCommission expert group on Fertilising Products #E01320#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=1320 #OBSERVER #C#IndustryAnimal Health Advisory Committee#E03832/1#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=103292 #MEMBER #C#Academia/Research#SMEsWorking Group on Plant Health#E03832/2#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=103432 #MEMBER #C#Academia/Research#SMEsWorking Group on Seeds and Propagating Material#E03832/3#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=103433 #MEMBER #C#Academia/Research#SMEsAdvisory Group on Sustainability of Food Systems#E03832#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3832 #MEMBER #C#Academia/Research#SMEsCivil Dialogue Group (CDG) on the CAP Strategic Plans and Horizontal Matters#E03877#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3877 #MEMBER #C#ProfessionalsCivil Dialogue Group (CDG) on Animal Production#E03879#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3879 #MEMBER #C#Civil society
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Each year, IPIFF organises events (e.g. annual conference in November/ December and online workshop organised in the course of spring) which (among others) aim to formulate policy proposals in the above areas and/or to inform insect producers and other 'interested parties' about applicable Regulations in the aforementioned policy areas.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 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.
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Date 26 Oct 2021 Location Virtual Subject General introduction of the European insect sector and how it could support Commission priorties from environmental perspective. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Carmen Preising (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Oct 2020 Location Brussels (Webex) Subject Exchange of views with International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF) on their priorities under the Farm to Fork. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Ines Prainsack (Cabinet member)
- Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet member)
- Giorgios Rossides (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Oct 2020 Location Virtual Subject To discuss the contribution of insect producers sector in the consultations on the future Strategic Guidelines for EU Aquaculture and Farm to Fork Strategy. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Agne Razmislaviciute-Palioniene (Cabinet member)
- Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner)
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Date 25 Apr 2017 Location BERL 08/344 Subject Insects as feed, Insects as novel foods Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)