Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Apr 2026 | Maroš Šefčovič Commissioner | Export credit – Cooperation at EU level | — |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Maroš Šefčovič Commissioner | Export credit – Cooperation at EU level | SRC |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Gabriela Keckesova Cabinet member | Export credit – Cooperation at EU level | SRC |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Charlotte Merlier Cabinet member | Export credit – Cooperation at EU level | SRC |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Gabriela Keckesova Cabinet member | Export credit – Cooperation at EU level | — |
| 03 Feb 2026 | Alexandra Jour-Schroeder Deputy Director-General | Banking issues | SRC |
| 03 Feb 2026 | Vincent Hurkens Cabinet member | Financial Services Legislation | — |
| 03 Feb 2026 | Vincent Hurkens Cabinet member | Financial Services Legislation | SRC |
| 03 Feb 2026 | Alexandra Jour-Schroeder Deputy Director-General | Banking issues | — |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Eric Mamer Director-General | General discussion on DG ENV priorities, simplification and competitiveness | — |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Eric Mamer Director-General | General discussion on DG ENV priorities, simplification and competitiveness | SRC |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Celine Gauer Director-General | Presentation of Bpifrance and of its work as provider of technical support | — |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Judit Rozsa () | Presentation of Bpifrance and of its work as provider of technical support | — |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Judit Rozsa () | Presentation of Bpifrance and of its work as provider of technical support | SRC |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Celine Gauer Director-General | Presentation of Bpifrance and of its work as provider of technical support | SRC |
| 21 Nov 2025 | Andreas Schwarz Cabinet member | EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy and ScaleUp Europe Fund | SRC |
| 21 Nov 2025 | Andreas Schwarz Cabinet member | EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy and ScaleUp Europe Fund | — |
| 05 Nov 2025 | Malgorzata Nikowska Head of Unit | Exchange on insights and experiences in Digital Transformation for SMEs | — |
| 05 Nov 2025 | Malgorzata Nikowska Head of Unit | Exchange on insights and experiences in Digital Transformation for SMEs | SRC |
| 04 Nov 2025 | Anna Athanasopoulou Director | Presentation by BPI France on their Advisory Services Department and discussion on the role of BPI France in the Enterprise Europe Network and in the InvestEU Advisory Hub | SRC |
| 04 Nov 2025 | Anna Athanasopoulou Director | Presentation by BPI France on their Advisory Services Department and discussion on the role of BPI France in the Enterprise Europe Network and in the InvestEU Advisory Hub | — |
| 08 Sept 2025 | Maroš Šefčovič Commissioner | Trade policy | SRC |
| 08 Sept 2025 | Maroš Šefčovič Commissioner | Trade policy | — |
| 22 Jul 2025 | Jan Ceyssens Cabinet member | EU environmental policies | — |
| 22 Jul 2025 | Jan Ceyssens Cabinet member | EU environmental policies | SRC |
Mission & Goals
Bpifrance (French public investment bank) was created by the French Act n°2012-1559 of 31 December 2012. Its two shareholders are the French State and Caisse des Dépôts. Since 2013, Bpifrance has become the one stop shop for entrepreneurs with a vastly comprehensive toolbox offered in the field to customers through 50 local branches. Our mission is simple: we believe in serving the future, by being entrepreneur-centric and heavily decentralized. Bpifrance’s goal is to favour the growth of the French economy by helping entrepreneurs thrive. We have many resources at our disposal to help entrepreneurs succeed. We mainly support micro-businesses, SMEs and mid-caps but we also accompany large caps that are considered important to the interests of France in terms of national economy, the territories or employment. We offer a continuum of solutions adapted to every key step in a business’ growth such as: business creation, financing, guarantees or equity investment.
EU Legislative Interests
Financing programmes - Financial Regulation - InvestEU & Omnibus II - Horizon Europe –Framework Programme for Research and Innovation & underlying instruments - NextGenerationEU – Recovery Instrument to support the recovery - European Regional Development Fund & revision to address strategic challenges - Common provisions rules - Social Climate Fund - Creative Europe Programme - Digital Europe Programme - Single Market Programme - Global Europe: Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument - European Defence Fund - European Defence Industry Programme - Security Action for Europe - Connecting Europe Facility - The road to the next MFF - EU funding programmes proposals under the next MFF: National Regional Partnerships Plans – European Competitiveness Fund & Horizon Europe – InvestEU & scale-up facility – Global Europe – Performance framework - Sectorial Funding initiatives (AI, Space, Quantum, Life Science…) - InvestAI Facility - Technical Support Instrument - Omnibus V Defence Strategies for businesses - New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market - RepowerEU - Net Zero Industry Act - STEP: Strategic Technologies European Platform - Critical Raw Materials Act - SME Strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe - A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age - Social Economy Action Plan - A new European Defence Industrial Strategy - Enhancing research security - Screening of foreign investments - Ecodesign requirements for sustainable products - AI Continent action plan - Clean industrial Deal - Affordable Energy Plan - Steel & metals action plan - Automotive action plan - EU Life Science Strategy - EU Vision for the European Space Economy & EU Space Act - EU Startups & Scaleups strategy - Bioeconomy Strategy - Quantum Europe strategy - Action plan for the EU chemicals industry - Single Market Strategy, Small and mid-caps definition - Startup, scale-ups and innovative companies’ definitions - Union of skills - Industrial Accelerator Act - EU Inc - Public Procurement Act - Circular Economy Act - Biotech Act - European Research Area Act - Innovation Act - Proposal on addressing supply chain dependencies - Cloud and AI Development Act - Chips Act 2 - Quantum Act - AI gigafactories Competition - SME and small mid-caps definitions - Guarantee Notice, Evaluation & Review - Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework - Temporary Crisis Framework - General Block Exemption Regulation - De minimis Regulation - Clean Industrial State Aid framework - Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring non-financial undertakings in difficulty - Foreign Subsidies Regulation Sustainability - Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive - Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive - Sustainability‐related disclosures in the financial services sector - Framework to facilitate sustainable investment - Deforestation Regulation - Forced Labour Regulation - A sustainable finance framework that works on the ground - Climate Law and induced initiatives: fit-for-55, 2040 EU climate target - EU Green Bonds - ESG Ratings - Water resilience strategy - Nature credits related initiatives - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Omnibus I - Industrial Decarbonization Accelerator Act - Decarbonization bank - Voluntary SME reporting standards Digital - Data Act - AI Act - Data Governance Act - EU chips Act - eIDAS & business wallet - Digital euro - Open finance strategy - PSD3/PSR - Financial Data Access Regulation - DORA - MiCAR - Instant Payments Regulation - DMS & DSA - GDPR - Digital omnibus Banking & finance - AML legislation - Markets in financial instruments - European Single Access Point - AIFMD - ELTIF & EUVECA - Listing Act package - Market Abuse Regulation - CRR/CRD - Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive - CMDI - Savings & investment union - Securitization - ESAs & InvestEU - Retail Investment Strategy - Market Integration and Supervision Package - Competitiveness of banking sector
Communication Activities
Regular position papers on the above mentioned EU policies, responses to EU consultations, organisation of events and workshops on EU policies. Annual reception in Brussels.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
• AECM: European Association of Guarantee Institutions (https://aecm.eu/). • ELTI: European Long-Term Investors Association (https://eltia.eu/). • EVFIN: European Venture Fund Investors Network. • NEFI: the Network of European Financial Institutions for small and medium sized Enterprises (https://www.nefi.eu/). • TAFTIE: the European network of innovation agencies (https://taftie.eu/). • Eureka Network : public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation (https://eurekanetwork.org/) • The International Union of Credit and Investment Insurers (Berne Union) (https://www.berneunion.org/) • The Montreal Group (https://themontrealgroup.org/fr/home/) • OECD Platform on Financing SMEs for Sustainability (https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/oecd-platform-on-financing-smes-for-sustainability.html) • TRANSEO (https://www.transeo-association.eu/) • EUROMED • One Planet Sovereign Wealth Fund (OPSWF - https://oneplanetswfs.org/) • EMENA foundation • IFSWF International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (https://www.ifswf.org/)
Organisation Members
https://www.lafrenchfab.fr/ https://www.lesdeeptech.fr/ https://www.la-frenchtouch.fr/ https://www.lafrenchcare.fr/ https://www.bpifrance.fr/communaute-du-coq-vert https://bpifrance-creation.fr/ https://www.bpifrance-universite.fr/ https://lelab.bpifrance.fr/
Additional Information
For the avoidance of any doubt, the public affairs services referred to herein categorically exclude any form of influence action, lobbying, or representation activity carried out on behalf of Bpifrance. These services are in no way to be construed as such. Revised annual costs (previously overestimated)
Connected Legislation