Bpifrance
Budget
€400 — €0
EP Access
3
accredited persons
Staff
4
4 FTE
EU Grants
€6,459,512
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: Neighbourhood, 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 - 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 (Scale-up fund, 28th regime, Lab to Unicorn initiative…) - Bioeconomy Strategy - Quantum Europe strategy - Action plan for the EU chemicals industry - Single Market Strategy, Small and mid-caps definition - Union of skills Competition - SME definition - Guarantee Notice, Evaluation & Review - Temporary Crisis and Transition 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 (EU taxonomy) - 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 (& related auctions) - 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 (Payment services directive & regulation) - Financial Data Access Regulation - Digital Operational Resilience Act - Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation - Instant Payments Regulation - Digital Services Act & Digital Markets Act - General Data Protection Regulation Banking & finance - Anti-money laundering legislation - Markets in financial instruments - European Single Access Point - Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive - European Long-term Investment Funds - European venture capital funds - Listing Act package including Insolvency law harmonization directive - Market Abuse Regulation - Capital Requirements Regulation - Capital Requirements Directive - Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive - Crisis management and deposit insurance framework - Savings & investment union communication - Securitization framework - ESAs & InvestEU Regulation - T+1 settlement cycle - Retail Investment Strategy Fiscal - BEFIT
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
Revised annual costs (previously overestimated)
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.