Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07 May 2026 | Patrice Pillet (Cabinet member) Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra | VAT simplification | SRC |
| 07 May 2026 | Patrice Pillet Cabinet member | VAT simplification | SRC |
| 05 May 2026 | Rolf Hoijer Principal Adviser | Presentation of the findings of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board’s Annual Report 2025 at BusinessEurope’s Better Regulation Working Group | SRC |
| 05 May 2026 | Unknown Commission | Presentation of the Communication A simpler, clearer and better | SRC |
| 05 May 2026 | Rolf Hoijer (Principal Adviser) Commission | Presentation of the findings of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board’s Annual Report 2025 at BusinessEurope’s Better Regulation Working Group | SRC |
| 05 May 2026 | Antonina Cipollone Head of Unit | Presentation of the Communication A simpler, clearer and better enforced EU rulebook” | SRC |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Alvydas Stancikas Head of Unit | Meeting with business associations on the state of play of the “Terrible Ten barriers” work | — |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Mary Veronica Tovsak Pleterski Director | Meeting with business associations on the state of play of the “Terrible Ten barriers” work | — |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Unknown Commission | Meeting with business associations on the state of play of the | SRC |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Alvydas Stancikas Head of Unit | Meeting with business associations on the state of play of the “Terrible Ten barriers” work | SRC |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Mary Veronica Tovsak Pleterski Director | Meeting with business associations on the state of play of the “Terrible Ten barriers” work | SRC |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Anna Jarosz-Friis Director | Collaboration on private sector engagement and work of the Business Advisory Council of the Ukraine Donor Platform | — |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Anna Jarosz-Friis (Director) Commission | Collaboration on private sector engagement and work of the Business Advisory Council of the Ukraine Donor Platform | SRC |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Anna Jarosz-Friis Director | Collaboration on private sector engagement and work of the Business Advisory Council of the Ukraine Donor Platform | SRC |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Pernille Weiss-Ehler Cabinet member | Water Framework Directive | — |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Pernille Weiss-Ehler (Cabinet member) Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall | Water Framework Directive | SRC |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Pernille Weiss-Ehler Cabinet member | Water Framework Directive | SRC |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Laurence De Richemont Head of Unit | Meeting to present the BusinessEurope perspectives for additional simplification of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) | SRC |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Laurence De Richemont Head of Unit | Meeting to present the BusinessEurope perspectives for additional simplification of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) | — |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Unknown Commission | Meeting to present the BusinessEurope perspectives for | SRC |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Jan Hendrik Dopheide Cabinet member | EU-UK relations | — |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Jan Hendrik Dopheide (Cabinet member) Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič | EU-UK relations | SRC |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Jan Hendrik Dopheide Cabinet member | EU-UK relations | SRC |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Katarina Koszeghy Cabinet member | Tax Simplification | — |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Katarina Koszeghy (Cabinet member) Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra | Tax Simplification | SRC |
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