SUEZ Group
Budget
€500 — €0
EP Access
1
accredited persons
Staff
5
3.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
For more than 160 years, SUEZ has been enabling its customers to create value over the entire lifecycle of their assets and services, and to drive their ecological transition, by providing resilient and innovative solutions in water and waste management. In 2024, SUEZ provided drinking water to 68 million people worldwide and treated 32 million tons of waste. The Group generated 8 TWh of energy from waste and wastewater. In 2024, SUEZ generated 9.2 billion euros in revenues. SUEZ relies on innovation and collaboration to implement a smart and sustainable resource management: optimizing the use of water thanks to information technologies, creating alternative water resources, recovering waste into energy or new materials and helping reduce primary source resource consumption.
EU Legislative Interests
SUEZ follows : Green Deal:Transition to a Circular Economy; A zero Pollution Europe; EU-ETS reform ; CBAM Waste management -Circular economy Act - Critical Raw Materials - (Product Environmental Footprint, Interface, Monitoring framework) and Legislative proposals on Waste Directives (Waste, landfill, Packaging and Packaging Waste, WEEE/Batteries) -Directive on Single Use Plastics -Plastics Strategy - End of waste criteria -Revision of Waste Shipment Regulation -Proposal for a Regulation on fertilising products (EC) No 2003/2003 - Ecodesign - Revised end-of-life vehicle directive - end of waste criteria Water management - Water Resilience Strategy -EU Drinking Water Directive -Proposal for a Regulation on quality requirements for reuse of treated wastewater for agricultural irrigation -Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive -and Water Framework Directive - Revised list of surface and groundwater pollutants -Water Framework Directive and daughter Directives (floods, groundwater, EQSD) -Guidelines on minimum quality requirements for water reuse for aquifer recharge -EU strategy on pharmaceuticals in the environment -Microplastics in the environment and water - Bathing water Directive - NIS Directive - Critical infrastructures Directive - Sewage sludge directive Energy and Climate -CCUS Industrial Carbon Management -Revision of ETS - Phase 4 -Proposal for an Effort Sharing Regulation -Climate law - Energy efficiency Directive - electricity market design - industrial emission directive - certification on carbon removal - Regulation net zero industry - microplastic pollution - soil health - strategy on biomethane - industrial Carbon Management Air Quality -Revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directive Sustainable Finance - Taxonomy delegated acts - Social Taxonomy Horizontal files -Critical raw material act - PFAS ban / REACH revision -EU funding: MFF, ERDF, Horizon Europe, RFFinstrument -VAT Directive, PSI Directive, Concession and public procurement Directives - Digital, Artificial intelligence, GRPD, Smart cities - Concessions directive Industrial alliances (plastics, batteries, low carbon industries) Related to the above listed topics, senior leaders and experts of SUEZ participate in personae in working groups of the Conseil De Cooperation Economique (CCE), without SUEZ being a member of the CCE.
Communication Activities
- Various speaking engagements in events / conferences / workshops related to our activities organised by the EU institutions, our sectoral trade associations, or thinks tanks. - Bilateral meetings with Members of the European Commission, the European Parliament and Permanent Representations. - Distribution of our topical position papers and corporate booklets - Involvement in Horizon / Green Deal calls for projects as well as other DG RTD led initiatives (EU Innovation Fund).
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
The list below includes our involvement in EU initiatives as well as our main institutional partnerships at European and global levels. More information on these partnerships or on institutional relations at national level are available upon request. Membership in waste management and recycling organizations: - European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services (FEAD)* - European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EURIC)* - Plastic Recylers Europe (PRE)* - Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP)* - European Biogas Association (EBA) - International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) - ERFO* Membership in water management organizations: - EUREAU* - Water Europe - MEP Water group - European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform - AQUAFED* - International Water Association (IWA)* -European Water Association (EWA) - World Water Council - Acqueau Cross sectoral and business federations: - E3PO* - France Industrie - Medef* - Afep - ESPP (phosphorus plateform) - Healthy Europe -CO2 Value Europe Relationship with think-tanks, associations and platforms: - EPR Club - EIT Raw Materials - CEN Strategic Advisory Body on Environment (SABE)* - European Policy Center (EPC) (* = through national business associations)
Organisation Members
The list below includes our involvement in EU initiatives as well as our main institutional partnerships at European and global levels. More information on these partnerships or on institutional relations at national level are available upon request. Membership in waste management and recycling organizations: - European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services (FEAD)* - European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EURIC)* - Plastic Recylers Europe (PRE)* - Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP)* - European Biogas Association (EBA) - International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) - ERFO* Membership in water management organizations: - EUREAU* - Water Europe - European Innovation Partnership on Water - MEP Water group - European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform - AQUAFED* - International Water Association (IWA)* - EWA (European Water Association) - World Water Council - Acqueau Cross sectoral and business federations: - E3PO* - France Industrie - Medef* - Afep - ESPP (phosphorus plateform) - Healthy Europe - CO2 Value Europe Relationship with think-tanks, associations and platforms: - EPR Club - EIT Raw Materials - CEN Strategic Advisory Body on Environment (SABE)* - European Policy Center (EPC) (* = through national business associations)
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.