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, and national associations
Fediol (EU Oil and Proteinmeal Industry), and national associations
Coceral (Comité du Commerce des céréales, aliments du bétail, oléagineux, huile d'olive, huiles et graisses et agrofournitures), and national associations
ECA (European Cocoa Association)
FoodDrinkEurope,
Amcham EU (American Chamber of Commerce) & AmCham BE
AVEC (Association of Poultry Processors and Poultry Trade in the EU countries), via national associations
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)
FOSFA (Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Association)
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 2021 - May 2022

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.

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Areas of interest include
- food and feed safety legislation;
- environment legislation;
- development policy;
- enterprise policy;
- innovation policy;
- nutrition and food policy;
- international trade policy;
- agricultural policy;
- financial derivatives;
- energy policy.

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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

• Date	13 Dec 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Commission	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
  Commission	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Bayer AG IMAGINE Foundation SYSTEMIQ LIMITED Unilever Rabobank PepsiCo Arla Foods amba Danone McCain Alimentaire Bunge Ltd Royal DSM Diageo Corteva Agriscience International SARL YARA BELGIUM S.A. Syngenta Crop Protection AG Nestlé S.A. One Planet Business for Biodiversity

• 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
  Commission	Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	HSBC Holdings PLC Morgan Stanley Société Générale The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Futures Industry Association, Inc. ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. Citigroup Inc. Barclays PLC Credit Suisse Group AG

• 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
  Commission	Daniel Mes (Cabinet member) Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Envien group 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
  Commission	Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	EWABA Envien group Argent Energy Greenergy Fuels Ltd

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

• Date	25 Sep 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Futures Markets
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
  Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
  Commission	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
  Commission	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
  Commission	Lee Foulger (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	EUROGAS aisbl Energy UK BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e. V. European Federation of Energy Traders Eurelectric aisbl Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. Deutsches Aktieninstitut

• Date	01 Jul 2015	Location	Milano
  Subject	IoT and H2020
  Commission	Robert Madelin (Director-General)

• Date	01 Jul 2015	Location	Milano
  Subject	IoT and H2020
  Commission	Robert Madelin (Director-General)

• Date	03 Jun 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	New College and Better Regulation
  Commission	Robert Madelin (Director-General)
  Other Lobbyists	Novartis International AG Jaguar Land Rover Limited MERIAL Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles spiritsEUROPE Dow Europe GmbH Syngenta Crop Protection AG Acumen Public Affairs European Centre for Public Affairs RELX The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA CEMA - European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association FoodDrinkEurope Toy Industries of Europe Oracle GIGAEurope aisbl European Chemical Industry Council American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union RTL Group CEMBUREAU - The European Cement Association SANOFI European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

• Date	03 Jun 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	New College and Better Regulation
  Commission	Robert Madelin (Director-General)
  Other Lobbyists	European Chemical Industry Council RTL Group SANOFI European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union Novartis International AG CEMBUREAU - The European Cement Association Jaguar Land Rover Limited Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles spiritsEUROPE MERIAL Dow Europe GmbH Syngenta Crop Protection AG European Centre for Public Affairs RELX The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA CEMA - European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association Acumen Public Affairs FoodDrinkEurope Oracle GIGAEurope aisbl Toy Industries of Europe