Overwatch Report

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] To send an updated mailing to MEPs regarding The Pollution Playbook: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook The Pollution Playbook looks at the deceptive tactics that manufacturers use to keep producing and selling their toxic products such as chemicals, pesticides, and plastics. This mailing included the briefing, a summary, and a podcast

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 4 more

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625 COM/2023/411

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] To send our new briefing The Pollution Playbook to the Permanent Representation: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook The Pollution Playbook looks at the deceptive tactics that manufacturers use to keep producing and selling their toxic products such as chemicals, pesticides, and plastics

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Aingeal O'Donoghue", 'role': 'Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] The proposed revision of the EU's Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625 COM/2023/411

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': "Suggested text to MEPs from our email action:\nI am concerned about the planned EU law on new genomic techniques. The agreed changes endanger our freedom of choice, our health, and our environment. Please vote against this law!\nIt's proven that GMOs can pose risks for human health and biodiversity. Gene editing remains an artificial intervention.\nOn top of that, it’s not right that companiеs should be allowed to patent seeds. This will only increase the power of big companies ..."} {'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Ciaran Mullooly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 9 more

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625 COM/2023/411

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Nina Carberry', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Luke Ming Flanagan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 8 more

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] To send our new briefing The Pollution Playbook to MEPs: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook The Pollution Playbook looks at the deceptive tactics that manufacturers use to keep producing and selling their toxic products such as chemicals, pesticides, and plastics

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] The publication of the Forever Lobbying Project about PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] The EU's Clean Industrial Deal announcement and a recent analysis of EU corporate lobbying by our data platform, LobbyFacts

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] The publication of the Forever Lobbying Project about PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and the EU Toy Safety law revision

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Aingeal O’Donoghue', 'role': 'Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] Hydrogen, Fossil Free Politics, Kick Big Polluters Out

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] To inform MEPs about problematic corporate lobbying on the topic of PFAS (Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) by sending this briefing: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/consumer-pfas-vs-universal-ban

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] To invite MEPs to attend a lobby tour of the EU quarter in Brussels, following the publication of this briefing on the EU's massive deregulation programme: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/crash-course-eus-deregulation-wave

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] To invite MEPs to attend a lobby tour of the EU quarter in Brussels, following the publication of this report on corporate lobbying around Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): https://corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-reaction

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] To invite MEPs to attend a screening of our film on problematic EU green hydrogen projects in South Africa: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/human-cost-green-hydrogen-south-africa-community-voices-challenge-eus-narrative

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

September–December

[EU Affairs] To invite an MEP to speak at an event looking at the problems with green hydrogen

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] European Parliament votes on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Ciaran Cuffe MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Luke Ming Flanagan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Chris MacManus', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 7 more

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] To share our new article on the "Essential Use Concept", part of chemicals regulation policy: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2024/01/how-essential-are-hazardous-substances

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] To send two new publications on chemicals policy, specifically including critical analysis of the chemical industry's lobbying and position: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2024/02/crying-wolf and https://corporateeurope.org/en/2024/02/corporate-capture-environmental-crises

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] To promote an alternative vision for the EU's Strategic Agenda 2024-29, and especially to oppose the industry-led ‘Industrial Deal’ / Antwerp Declaration project

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Ciaran Cuffe MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Luke Ming Flanagan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Chris MacManus', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 7 more

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] The EU Parliament elections campaign

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ciarán Cuffe', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Luke Ming Flanagan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Chris MacManus', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 7 more

Corporate Europe Observatory

September–December

[EU Affairs] To alert MEPs to recent revelations from a Lighthouse Reports investigation which showed political and corporate influence in the EU Green Deal and the EU Farm to Fork Strategy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

September–December

[EU Affairs] To introduce the work of Corporate Europe Observatory to new MEPs

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] Following Qatargate scandal in European Parliament, we sent a note re: our demands about repressive regime lobbying

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] Sent new report on the lobbying of BASF to members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee: https://corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-romance-politicians-basf

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': "Grace O'Sullivan MEP", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

January–April

[EU Affairs] To discuss Fossil Free Politics campaign https://www.fossilfreepolitics.org/

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ciaran Cuffe MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] To discuss 'Kick Big Polluters Out' initiative: https://kickbigpollutersout.org/

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ciaran Cuffe MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] To discuss Fossil Free Politics campaign https://www.fossilfreepolitics.org/

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ciaran Cuffe MEP', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] Sent new report on the lobbying of Big Toxics to members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee: https://corporateeurope.org/en/big-toxics-firepower

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': "Grace O'Sullivan MEP", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Corporate Europe Observatory

May–August

[EU Affairs] Sent new report on the lobbying of chemicals industry on the proposed universal PFAS ( Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances or 'forever chemicals) restriction to members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee: https://corporateeurope.org/en/pfas-are-forever

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': "Grace O'Sullivan MEP", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Lobbying Tracker

Most Lobbied TDs