Syngenta Crop Protection AG

Syngenta is member of the following industry associations:
- CropLife International
- CropLife Europe
- Euroseeds
- International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (IBMA)
- European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC)
- European Association of Professional Trained Pest Managers (CEPA)

Syngenta is a member of:
- American chamber of commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU)
- EconomieSuisse
- Biocontrol Coalition (https://biocontrolcoalition.eu/members/)

Syngenta participates to following bodies:
- Transantlantic Policy Network (TPN),
- European Technology Platform (ETP) Plants for the Future
- The Glyphosate Renewal Group (GRG)
- European Regulation and Innovation Forum (ERIF).

The Syngenta Brussels office represents Syngenta Crop Protection AG and all its EU-based affiliates.

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

1,500,000€ - 1,749,999€

None declared

1,500,000€ - 1,749,999€

The estimated costs are calculated based on the activities, including The Forum for the Future of Agriculture 2023, and the portion of working time spent by Syngenta associates on representing interests to the EU institutions in 2023, following the Transparency Register Implementation Guidelines.

None declared

Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development

Forum for the Future of Agriculture:
The Founding Partners, Syngenta and the ELO (European Landowners' Organization), came together in 2008 to create a new, open and inclusive place in Europe where all stakeholders interested in contributing to a more sustainable agriculture system could come together to debate and share knowledge and expertise on how this could be achieved.
The Forum’s Secretariat, under the guidance of the Forum Chairman and the Advisory Council, work with the founding, strategic and supporting partners to achieve the mission of the Forum to contribute to the development of a more sustainable food and agriculture system. The Founding and Strategic Partners also act as a sounding board and provide counsel on thought leadership activities and positions, such as the Call to Action. The Partners also exchange knowledge and expertise on what works on the ground, as well as constructively challenging each other, as well as other stakeholders in their community, to help create a more sustainable food system.
More information at www.forumforag.com

Sustainability priorities:
More than a decade ago, Syngenta Group was one of the first companies in the industry to launch a plan that served as the organization’s sustainability compass – the Good Growth Plan. Building on the progress we made and the lessons learned, the company launched a new Good Growth Plan in June 2020 which put the urgent fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at the heart of farming’s productive future and the global economic recovery.
Syngenta continues to believe setting clear targets that guide innovation will integrate sustainability throughout the business. To realize this ambition, we have set four sustainability priorities, each with a clear set of targets.
• Priority 1: Higher yields, lower impact
• Priority 2: Regenerate soil and nature
• Priority 3: Improve rural prosperity
• Priority 4: Sustainable operations
Drawing from three strong levers to put our sustainability priorities into action, Syngenta will embark on this new phase of its sustainability journey. The three levers are:
• Leveraging the power of innovation
• Working in partnership with others
• Establishing a strong tool to steer our portfolio towards increased sustainability

Land and Soil Management Award:
This award was launched in 2008 by the European Landowners’ Organization (ELO), under the auspices of the European Commission (DG Environment and the Joint Research Centre) and in association with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) of Vienna, Syngenta, as well as the Centre for Soil and Environmental Sciences of the Ljubljana University. Since then, the award jury has selected outstanding achievements throughout the European Union in the field of sustainable soil and land management.
The award rewards land use and soil management practices mitigating soil threats i.e. soil degradation, erosion, reduction of organic matter content, diffuse contamination, and compaction as well as the reduction of soil biodiversity, salinization, sealing, flooding and landslides. In doing so, the award sheds light on outstanding achievements, encouraging new concepts of land and soil protection and their implementation in land management, as well as enhancing awareness about the importance of land and soil functions, in Europe and extended territories.
To learn more visit https://europeanlandowners.org/awards/land-and-soil/


Other activities:
We engage in other global groups such as World Economic Forum, World Business Council for Sustainable Development who also seek dialogues with EU policy makers.

None declared

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The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.

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	30 Apr 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Green engagement of Syngenta; Environmental Monitoring; Green Deal implementation; Chemical Strategy for Sustainability.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Attending	Carmen Preising (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	Diageo Corteva Agriscience International SARL Danone Rabobank IMAGINE Foundation Bunge Ltd Arla Foods amba McCain Alimentaire SYSTEMIQ LIMITED Unilever PepsiCo One Planet Business for Biodiversity YARA BELGIUM S.A. Royal DSM Nestlé S.A. Bayer AG Cargill

• Date	11 Oct 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	To discuss the contribution of innovative plant breeding to food security and sustainability to achieve the green deal objectives
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski
  Portfolio	Agriculture
  Attending	Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member) Joanna Stawowy (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Bayer AG KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA Corteva Agriscience International SARL Groupe Limagrain Euroseeds

• Date	05 May 2022	Location	BERL
  Subject	Ukraine and Food Security
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski
  Portfolio	Agriculture
  Attending	Andreas Schneider (Cabinet member) Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	CropLife Europe

• Date	14 Mar 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Reducing the use and risk of chemical pesticides
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)

• Date	03 Dec 2021	Location	video-call
  Subject	Discussion on investments into carbon removals with business representatives
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Nestlé S.A. Arla Foods amba Bayer AG YARA BELGIUM S.A. Rabobank

• Date	09 Jul 2021	Location	Video-call
  Subject	Sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)

• Date	28 May 2021	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	Sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)

• Date	29 May 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	European Green Deal
  DG	Environment
  Attending	Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)

• Date	17 Oct 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Sustainable use of pesticides
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 Sep 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	New Techniques in Biotecnology
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Bernardus Smulders (Cabinet member)

• Date	08 Aug 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	The Future of EU policy on PPP and GMOs
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 Jun 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Innovation in the field of plant protection products
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 May 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Agri Matters
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
  Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
  Attending	Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

• Date	12 Mar 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	GMO import approvals and new breeding techniques
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	EuropaBio DuPont de Nemours International SARL

• Date	04 Feb 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Plant Breeding Innovation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	20 Sep 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Sustainable farming, plant protection products
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	23 Feb 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Approval of plant protection products
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	27 Jul 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Plant protection products
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Jul 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Plant protection products
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Bayer AG

• Date	25 Nov 2016	Location	Brussels, BERL 08/304
  Subject	general AGRI business + Syngenta issues
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
  Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
  Attending	Dermot Ryan (Cabinet member)

• Date	27 Jun 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	New breeding techniques, innovation in seeds
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member) Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA Groupe Limagrain Holding EuropaBio Monsanto DuPont de Nemours International SARL Euroseeds

• Date	25 May 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Glyphosate
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Monsanto

• Date	13 Oct 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Bioeconomy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas
  Portfolio	Research, Science and Innovation
  Attending	Maria Da Graca Carvalho (Cabinet member)

• 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	CEMA - European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association Cargill European Chemical Industry Council FoodDrinkEurope Oracle RTL Group GIGAEurope aisbl SANOFI Toy Industries of Europe American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union CEMBUREAU - The European Cement Association European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Novartis International AG Dow Europe GmbH Jaguar Land Rover Limited Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles European Centre for Public Affairs spiritsEUROPE The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA MERIAL Acumen Public Affairs RELX

• 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 Novartis International AG FoodDrinkEurope Oracle GIGAEurope aisbl European Chemical Industry Council Toy Industries of Europe European Centre for Public Affairs The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA Acumen Public Affairs CEMA - European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association RELX Cargill Jaguar Land Rover Limited Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles Dow Europe GmbH spiritsEUROPE RTL Group MERIAL SANOFI American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union CEMBUREAU - The European Cement Association