CEFIC - European Chemical Industry Council

EU Legislative Interests

Here the main EU policy areas followed by Cefic: EU chemicals policy, including the Chemical strategy for sustainability and action plan; REACH ; Microplastics restriction; Classification, Labelling and Packaging; Combination effects of chemicals; Endocrine Disruption; Human Biomonitoring; Nanomaterials; Biocides EU Energy & Climate: the Fit for 55 package, including CBAM; Emissions Trading System (ETS); Energy Efficiency; Energy Union; Renewable Energy; Resource Efficiency; Climate Law; Hydrogen; Industrial transformation EU Industrial Policy Trade Policy EU HSE policy: e.g. Environment & Health Air; Industrial Emissions (IED); Process safety and Seveso; Soil; Waste Management; Water Quality; Occupational health; Logistics and transports Sustainable Finance Circular economy Research & Innovation: e.g. Key enabling technology; CO2 valorisation; chemical recycling Cefic follows as well a series of policies, legislation or regulatory acts related to some specific sub-sector(s) of the European chemical industry. Those activities are organised within Cefic via the Cefic Sector Groups, which are dealing with specific substances/products or families of substances/products. There are currently around 70 Cefic Sector groups. The activities of all the Cefic Sector Groups carried out with the objective of directly or indirectly influencing the formulation or implementation of policy and the decision-making processes of the EU institutions are covered by the registration of Cefic into the EU Transparency Register.Here the complete list of all the Cefic Sector Groups: https://cefic.org/library-item/cefic-sector-groups-list/ For more information about the Cefic Sector Groups, please go to https://cefic.org/about-us/organization/ and click on the grey box related to the Sector Groups of Cefic.

Communication Activities

I. Publications: For position papers: see https://cefic.org/position-papers For other publications: https://cefic.org/library II. Events: see lists: https://cefic.org/media-corner/event

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

1 A.SPIRE aisbl (Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency (SPIRE) 2 Ad Hoc Council 3 Alliance for a Competitive European Industry 4 Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries 5 Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) 6 Business@OECD-BIAC 7 BusinessEurope (as observer) 8 CEB (Comité Electronique Belge) 9 CEC Coordinating European Council 10 CEN – CENELEC (as liaison organization) 11 CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies 12 Cross Sector Group on Materials in contact with food 13 EMIRI Energy Materials Industry Research Initiative 14 ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING 15 EPC - European Policy Centre 16 EPEE, the European Partnership for Energy and the Environment 17 ESPP (European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform) - via INCOPA SG 18 EU Feed Chain Coordination Working Group (for the feed chain: APAG, EFG, GME and IFP) 19 EU Specialty Food Ingredients 20 EUBA 21 Eurometaux 22 European Association for Passive Fire Protection 23 European Chemical Regions Network (ECRN) 24 European Circular Composites Alliance ( Eucia) 25 European Coalition for Chemical Recycling 26 European Composites Industry association (EUCIA) 27 European Drinking Water Alliance 28 European Fire Safety Alliance 29 European Forum for Manufacturing 30 European Justice Forum 31 European Phenolic Resins Association (EPRA) 32 European Regulation and Innovation Forum 33 European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) 34 EUROPEAN SHIPPERS' COUNCIL 35 European Society of Association Executives (ESAE) 36 FAIB - Federation of European and International Associations established in Belgium 37 Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats associations (FOSFA) 38 Fermentation and Molasses Alliances 39 Forschungsgesellschaft Kunststoffe e.V. 40 Foundation for Chemistry Research and initiatives 41 Friends of Europe 42 Green Growth Platform 43 INDA: Alliance of European Industry sectors involved in the transport of dangerous goods 44 Industrial Emissions Alliance 45 Joint Association Meetings on water 46 Joint Industry Group on Light Metal Packaging (JIG) 47 Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership 47 Network for Sustainable Mobility (via petro) 48 NORMAN ASSOCIATION 49 PARI-EFSA 50 Plastics Coordination Group 51 Press Club Brussels Europe 52 Printing Inks Joint Industry Task Force (PIJITF) 53 Public Affairs Council 54 SEAP - Society of European Affairs Professionals 55 SIR (Belgian Association on industrial cleaning) 56 Smart Freight Centre 57 The Plastics Europe Styrenics Board 58 VinylPlus 59 Women in Logistics (observer) The limitation of number of characters prevents us to add the links to the respective webpages

Organisation Members

Cefic Members and Partners are listed here: https://cefic.org/about-us/membership

Additional Information

In light of the scope of activities covered by the Transparency Register and the financial information required in Annex II of the Inter-Institutional Agreement (OJ L 107/10, 11.6.2021), Cefic estimates its costs for the representation of the interests of the Association vis-à-vis the EU Institutions at 12,29 M€. In the interest of full transparency, we state in the Register that in 2025, the total budget of Cefic amounts to 47,30 M€. That amount comprises roughly 23,21 M € for management of horizontal programs and 23,99 M € for management of Cefic Sector Groups. Cefic total staff amounts to about 169 persons. More information can be found in Cefic Statutes, reports and accounts as declared to the Belgian Authorities and is available for viewing on the Cefic website.