The European Foundry Federation (EFF) represents the national foundry associations of 22 European countries, covering approximately 4,000 foundries and nearly 200,000 employees. Although only 22 iron foundries are currently covered by EU ETS1, these installations account for around 40% of European iron casting production and are therefore highly significant for the sector. 1.
CEF
CAEF - The European Foundry Association
Industry association · France · EU Transparency Register 07813897843-74
6
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
6
legislative files
of 665 tracked
2
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,774 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1518 trade and business associations on this site, they rank #572 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
1
declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€100K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
1
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2012
in the register since
Declares membership of
- https://eff-eu.org/
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Trade and business associations
- Registered as
- European Foundry Federation (EFF)
- Head office
- Bilbao, Spain
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
CAEF - The European Foundry Association filed 6 positions between 20 Apr 2020 and 30 Jul 2026, across 6 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 2 times.
2020 · 2 filed2021 · 1 filed2025 · 1 filed2026 · 2 filed
What they argued
The European Foundry Industry Association CAEF highly welcomes the opportunity to comment the Inception Impact Assessment on the Industrial Emission Directive (IED) review. Regrettably, the feedback period doesn’t consider at all the current situation given by the Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, any assessment of legislative proposals is only possible to a very limited extend.
The European Foundry Federation (EFF) welcomes the European Commissions initiative to replace the current steel safeguard regime with a new trade defence instrument aimed at addressing global overcapacity, unfair competition and import deflection from mid-2025 onwards. EFF fully supports the objective of strengthening the EUs industrial resilience.
According to the latest EEA's “Air quality in Europe - 2020 report”, a better air quality has led to a significant reduction of premature deaths over the past decade in Europe. EU, national and local policies and emission cuts in key sectors have improved air quality across Europe, the EEA report shows.
The European Foundry Federation represents the national foundry associations of 20 European countries. Within the EU, the foundry sector comprises over 2,330 foundries, 138,000 direct employees and EUR 31 billion in annual production value. Around 70 % are family-owned SMEs, average EBITDA margins in the sector are near 3.5 %, and production is destined almost entirely for EU customers.
It is with great concern that we are following the discussions on the reduction of the benzene OEL within the framework of a Proposal for a Directive to further adapt the "Cancer Directive" (4th wave). Although foundries neither manufacture nor use benzene, our industry would be significantly affected by a significant reduction of the workplace exposure limits.
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