Resulting from continuous and substantial investment in innovation, specialty food ingredients allow food manufacturers to produce food and drinks that meet consumers demands and societal needs, including for healthier and more sustainable diets.
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EU Specialty Food Ingredients
Industry association · Belgium · EU Transparency Register 6160532422-38
4
positions filed
in the 326 files tracked
4
legislative files
of 326 tracked
4
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 326 consultation files tracked so far (29,503 submissions, mostly 2025–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1205 trade and business associations on this site, they rank #395 by legislative files engaged — a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
2
declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€400K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
3
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2008
in the register since
Declares membership of
- European Food Forum (https://europeanfoodforum.eu/ )
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026).
- Register category
- Trade and business associations
- Head office
- Brussels, Belgium
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
EU Specialty Food Ingredients filed 4 positions between 4 Apr 2022 and 10 Jun 2026, across 4 of the 326 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 4 times.
2022 · 1 filed2024 · 1 filed2026 · 2 filed
What they argued
EU Specialty Food Ingredients (EU SFI) welcomes Biotech Act II as a key follow-up to Biotech Act I and an opportunity to strengthen industrial biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the EU. It should better reflect the needs of the agri-food supply chain through targeted measures for the food industry and biomanufacturing, including faster authorisation and permitting, support for scale-up, and market uptake…
EU Specialty Food Ingredients represents the European manufacturers of specialty food ingredients, a wide range of functional carbohydrates, vitamins, specific proteins and fats, minerals, fibers, food improvement agents such as food additives and food enzymes, cultures, etc.
Please find attached EU Specialty Food Ingredients' feedback to this call for evidence. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. We look forward to providing specific qualitative and quantitatve feedback for the upcoming public and targeted consultations on the subject. Best regards.
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Turns up on the same files
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- Cefic · 3 files in common
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