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PolicySpeak

What PolicySpeak does, and how it works.

How a team starts, what is in the platform, the briefings it sends, and what we follow. One page, in that order.

How it works

Day one is a conversation about your files. After that, the work runs as a loop your team already knows: read, decide, meet, say.

  1. Before you start

    You tell us what your work is about.

    The files you work on, the policy areas around them and the people you deal with. Your logo and colors for what goes out, and who in your team sees what.

    Position papers can come later, once the team is reading.

  2. Setup

    One conversation, then a guided setup.

    We go through your files with you and set the workspace up around them. Nobody on your side has to configure it alone.

  3. The next morning

    The first briefing is waiting.

    Your organization's briefing arrives in the morning, each item linked to its source. Why an item is in it is explained with the briefings.

  4. Through the week

    The team works from the same record.

    A file changes hands with its deadline attached, not in another email thread. The meeting someone had and the draft someone wrote sit where the next person will look.

  5. When you have to say something

    The draft starts inside that record.

    Statements, consultation answers and the update to members are drafted from what is already there, and your team edits them before anything leaves. What the drafting does

Who uses what.

Nobody has to use all of it.

Policy officers

The files, the acts beneath them, the amendments, and the decision-makers on each.

Comms

Drafts with their sources, checked before release, in your organization's voice.

Heads of public affairs

The morning briefing, and a board-ready brief when the business asks.

Members

For associations: an update to members that your team prepares and sends. More

What it replaces.

The inbox, the tracker, the monitoring tool, the newsletter, and the spreadsheet of who said what: not as subscriptions you cancel, but as the steps your team does by hand between them.

The step todayWhat happens instead
Sifting the inbox for what moved on your filesIt arrives in the morning, already sorted to the files you chose.
Updating the tracker row by rowEach file keeps its own stage, documents and acts.
Reading monitoring alerts against your prioritiesWhat moves on a file you follow reaches you the same day.
Compiling the newsletter from scratchThe members' update starts compiled; your team reviews it and sends it.
Keeping the spreadsheet of who said whatMeetings, notes and next steps stay with the person and the file.

Keep the news service, the newsletter tool and the CRM you run. What goes is the copying between them.

It feeds what you already run.

Contacts and updates can go into your CRM, so nobody types them twice; ask us whether yours connects today. Your data comes back out whenever you want it, as the Security sets out. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing for IT to install.

What is in the platform

Four groups of work on one record: the files, the people on them, what your organization says, and how your team runs it. Where the record is public, you see the real thing.

4,337 legislative files

Nothing slips

Follow the files you care about from first consultation to final text, each in one place.

See which amendments touch a file, who tabled them, and where in the text they land.

Beneath each file sit the rules written after it passes: 7,000+ delegated and implementing acts, followed one by one with their deadlines and comitology stage.

Legislative file · record as of 15 Oct 2026
Latest on the record
  1. 23 Nov 2026Indicative plenary sitting date · scheduled
  2. 10 Nov 2026Adoption of draft report · scheduled
  3. 26 Jun 2026Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  4. 23 Jun 2026Committee opinion adopted
  5. 22 May 2026Discussions within the Council or its preparatory bodies
  6. 14 Apr 2026Committee amendments tabled
Rapporteurs
  • René Repasi · Rapporteur, S&D, DE
  • Anna Zalewska · Shadow rapporteur, ECR, PL
  • Eszter Lakos · Shadow rapporteur, EPP, HU
  • Julie Rechagneux · Shadow rapporteur, PfE, FR
  • Katri Kulmuni · Shadow rapporteur, Renew, FI
  • Nikos Pappas · Shadow rapporteur, The Left, EL
  • Ville Niinistö · Shadow rapporteur, Greens/EFA, FI
544 amendments · tabled 10 Apr 2026 to 23 Apr 2026
By author
  • Aleksandar Nikolic94
  • Julie Rechagneux94
  • Mélanie Disdier94
  • Pascale Piera94
  • Christian Ehler79

The 5 with the most, of 30 authors listed, tabled or co-signed.

By article
  • Article 15 – paragraph 18
  • Article 9 – paragraph 18
  • Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point a6
  • Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point i6
  • Article 7 – paragraph 16

The 5 with the most, of 30 provisions listed.

Open the file page →
Implementing decision · beneath the parent file

Commission Implementing Decision on harmonised packaging and packaging waste labels under Regulation (EU) 2025/40

Status
Planned for Q4 2026
Comitology stage
PREPARATION · C37000 The Committee for the adaptation to scientific and technical progress and implementation of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste

Parent file: Packaging and packaging waste

Two versions, side by side

Put two versions of a text next to each other and see exactly what changed, scanned PDFs included.

The same day

Hear the same day when something moves on a file or a person you follow.

Brussels events

See which events matter to your sector, and who from your team is going.

One calendar

Keep deadlines, hearings and your team's meetings in one calendar.

Briefings

The morning briefing, the ones you build for yourself, and why each item reached you are set out on Briefings.

On other pages

The board brief is on the page for corporate PA teams, and the languages we read are on Coverage.
3,700+ decision-makers

One picture

Find who decides your file, how they voted and who advises them, and pull a committee's members and their assistants into one download.

Read what MEPs said in the committee meetings we cover, attributed to the member who said it.

Decision-maker profile · excerpt
Christel SchaldemoseS&D · DK
  • Member, IMCO
  • Member Substitute, ENVI
  • Member, EUDS
On these files
Recorded votes
ENVI · 6 Jul 2026 · English interpretation
“… We all know this is only a small change within the functionality of ETS-1. The big one is knocking on the door. … Therefore, we welcome this amending decision to cease the invalidation of allowances in the stability reserve, and we believe it will be able to enter in functioning as soon as possible ahead of the big changes in larger scale to be negotiated later. …”
Roman HaiderPfE · AT · Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances2026/0085(COD)The meeting →

Your contact history

Log each meeting, note and next step against the person and the file, so your team works from one history.

Before a meeting

Walk in knowing where they stand and what your organization has already said to them.

Who you are not reaching

See the committees and people on your files you are not yet talking to.

Your CRM

Send contacts and updates to your CRM, where yours connects.

On the record

Look up who filed on a Commission consultation and what they argued. It is free, with no account.

Open a filer's record and declared spend, or compare these two with up to two more.

Who Filed What →

Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence – Digital Omnibus on AI (Omnibus VII)853 submissions on record
Johnson & Johnson
Company · United States
Register 75617941310-89
“Fostering regulatory coherence and legal certainty is essential to safeguard high standards of healthcare quality and patient safety, while enabling innovation in the medical sector. …”
Filed 13 Mar 2026Source →
European Society of Radiology (ESR)
NGO · Austria
Register 478131313572-40
“ESR Response to the Digital Omnibus on Data, Cybersecurity & Privacy Please find below a summary of the European Society of Radiologys (ESR) response to the European Commissions Digital Omnibus on AI. The full response is provided in the attachment. …”
Filed 13 Mar 2026Source →

One voice

Get a first draft that argues your line, grounded in your organization's own material, with its facts traced to source.

Receive a thirty-day landscape of your files and the people moving them, as a PDF.

Output from a PolicySpeak demonstration organization, founder-owned, redacted
European Solar Energy Association
Reactive statement · published 5 May 2026 · for media

ITRE draft report on TEN-E revision: European Solar Energy Association calls for grid priority to unlock solar deployment

Rapporteur Tsvetelina Penkova (S&D) presented the draft report on the revision of the Trans-European Energy Infrastructure (TEN-E) regulation in the ITRE committee [1]. This proposal amends key electricity market regulations and repeals the current TEN-E framework [2]. For solar energy, grid infrastructure is the single biggest bottleneck to deployment. …

Key messages
  • Grid infrastructure is the single biggest bottleneck for solar deployment in Europe.
  • The TEN-E revision must prioritize electricity grid reinforcement and storage projects.
  • We call for at least 50% of PCI status to be allocated to grid and storage projects.
  • Permitting timelines for grid connections must be capped at 18 months.
  • ITRE members must act now to align the TEN-E regulation with the EU's 2030 renewable energy targets.
Sources
  1. [1]The draft report on the proposal for a regulation on trans-European energy infrastructure was presented by Rapporteur Tsvetelina Penkova in the ITRE committee. europarl.europa.eu · ITRE-PR-785275
  2. [2]The proposal amends Regulations (EU) 2019/942, (EU) 2019/943, and (EU) 2024/1789, and repeals Regulation (EU) 2022/869. europarl.europa.eu · ITRE-PR-785275
Output from a PolicySpeak demonstration organization, founder-owned, redacted
European Solar Energy Association
Policy landscape · 30 days to 7 September 2026 · monthly

1,242 events in the period, against 1,766 in the one before. Sectors followed: energy, climate, internal market, trade.

Executive summary

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen remains the dominant voice on solar-relevant files (20 mentions), with plans to boost EU investment in Greenland's critical minerals — a supportive signal for supply-chain security — while Wopke Hoekstra (10 mentions) and Teresa Ribera (5 mentions) are driving the climate agenda …

On electricity market design, MEP Jonas Sjöstedt is actively opposing the current EU framework by proposing national 'Sverigepriser' pricing, while the IEA has urged Brussels to reconsider a ban in the energy sector …

Coverage by sector
SectorThis periodPrevious
energy7031066
climate6141032
internal market256267
trade181268
Stance signals
  • Ursula von der Leyen
    Energy
    supportive
    Expected to announce increased EU investment in Greenland, including in critical minerals, satellite communications and renewable energy
  • Jonas Sjöstedt
    Energy
    opposed
    Calls EU electricity market 'wrong' and proposes 'Sverigepriser' national pricing
  • International Energy Agency
    Energy
    opposed
    Urged Brussels to reconsider the ban
  • Ditte Juul Jørgensen
    Energy
    supportive
    Stated that talks with China must deliver tangible results by October
  • European Aluminium
    Climate
    supportive
    Asks for an Industrial Accelerator Act that delivers on its objectives
  • Hanna Gedin
    Internal Market
    supportive
    Wants to sharpen basic requirements to secure environmental and labor conditions
  • Micheál Martin
    Internal Market
    mixed
    Warned the EU risks falling further behind the US and China

…

Position library

Keep what your organization has agreed on file, so each draft starts from it.

Consultation answers

Answer a consultation from positions you have already agreed, with the gaps flagged for you.

Common positions

Collect members' views on a draft from a link, with no logins, and land on one position.

Checked before release

Check a draft against recent news and your positions before it goes out.

Your own draft

Bring a paper you wrote and see what is weak, missing or out of date.

Writing brief

Or start from the facts, angles and gaps, assembled for you, and write the piece yourself.

Message house

Drafts follow your voice and your message house, kept current.

For your members

The update you put in front of your members is described on Briefings.

Built around you

You set the files, the policies, the people, the branding and who sees what.

In the workspaceWhat it lets you do
The weekOne screen of what needs you this week, before the inbox.
HandoverHand a file to a colleague with its deadline, without another email thread.
ReportsExport what was surfaced and what your team did, ready for the board.
Your dataWho did what in your workspace, and taking your data with you when you leave, are covered in the Security.

Three briefings, each one yours.

Your organization's briefing in the morning, briefings of your own, and a publication your team sends to its members.

Some of the people who get the most from this never open the platform.

The email is enough. Each item links to its source, and the record behind it is waiting on the day you want more.
Output from a PolicySpeak demonstration organization, founder-owned, redacted
European Solar Energy AssociationMonday, 14 September 2026
Morning Desk Brief · #143
2 items today · sentiment mixed
In today’s brief
  • Lawmakers push to lower aluminium EU CBAM threshold
  • EU policymakers move to streamline cross-border energy infrastructure
The one thing

The European Parliament's ITRE committee has backed faster permitting for electricity grids and renewables, advancing the TEN-E regulation revision alongside the Commission's Grids Package — a direct opening for utility-scale solar developers whose project economics hinge on grid connection timelines, with EP-Council trilogues ahead and no dated deadline yet named, meaning the window to shape grid-priority language in the mandate remains open. Separately, a cross-party group of MEPs is tabling amendments to lower the CBAM aluminium threshold ahead of a plenary vote the week of 14 September 2026, with ENVI having already backed extending CBAM to over 400 product codes; the amendments touch file 2021/0214(COD) rather than solar panels directly, but the downstream-extension precedent is the one to watch for the sector's own CBAM-to-solar ask.

Key Developments
Parliament readingHighCarbon Pulse

Lawmakers push to lower aluminium EU CBAM threshold

A cross-party group of MEPs proposed lowering the CBAM threshold for aluminium imports ahead of a key vote next week on extending the mechanism.

Also covered by: EUROMETAL

Why it matters

MEPs are tabling amendments to lower the CBAM aluminium threshold ahead of a European Parliament vote next week on extending the mechanism to downstream products. … The procedural window is the plenary vote expected the week of 14 September 2026, with the ENVI committee already having backed extending CBAM to over 400 product codes.

Source →
Strategic initiativeNotablePV Magazine

EU policymakers move to streamline cross-border energy infrastructure

EU policymakers are advancing proposed measures to streamline planning, permitting, and investment decisions for trans-European energy infrastructure, aimed at lowering prices for households and businesses.

Why it matters

The European Parliament's ITRE committee has backed faster permitting for electricity grids and renewables, advancing the TEN-E regulation revision alongside the Commission's Grids Package. This directly touches the permitting and grid-integration priorities of the European Solar Energy Association, whose members depend on accelerated grid connection for utility-scale projects. The procedural window is the ongoing EP-Council negotiation on the TEN-E update, with the ITRE vote already taken and trilogue stages ahead; no dated deadline is named in the source.

Source →

…

Which briefing is which

Who sets each one up, who reads it, and who sends it.

Your organization's briefingYour own briefingsThe member publication
Who sets it upAn administratorYouYour team
Who reads itThe colleagues your organization namesOnly youYour members
What it followsYour organization's files, policies and peopleThe topics and files you pickThe sections you set for members
When it arrivesIn the morningWhen you chooseWhen you release it
Before it leavesNothing for you to doNothing for you to doCompiled for you, reviewed by you
Whose name is on itYour organization'sYour organization'sYour organization's
Why each item is thereA plain reason on each itemA plain reason on each itemYour team keeps or cuts each item
Who sends itPolicySpeak, by emailPolicySpeak, by emailYou, from your own tool

Why an item is there

What reaches you is weighed against the files, the policies and the people you chose.

Ranked for your organization

Two organizations reading the same week get different briefings from the same record, because they chose different files.

A plain reason on each item

Each item says, in a sentence, why it reached you, so you can judge it before you read on.

The source, one click away

Each item links to where it came from, so you can read the original before you act on it.

Yours, and your members'

Is it personal to me, or to my organization?

Both. Your organization's briefing goes to the colleagues it names; your own briefings follow the topics you pick and go only to you.

Can I have a briefing of my own?

Yes, on your own topics and files. The briefing you build for yourself arrives when you choose.

Can we send one to our members?

Yes. The member publication is your own branded update, compiled for you, reviewed by you and sent by you, from your own tool.

The publication goes out from your own tool, so we never hold that mailing list.

Whose branding does it carry?

Yours: your organization's name and colors, and your logo once you add it. What else your team produces is further up, under One voice.

4,337 files · 7,000+ acts · 3,700+ decision-makers

What we cover

This part is written to be checked rather than believed. Each row says what we hold and where you can see it.

We follow the Commission, the Parliament, the Council and the political groups.

What we follow, and how to check it.

WhatHow muchWhat is in itHow you can check
Legislative files4,337Where each file stands, the committee and rapporteur, the amendments, the documents, and the acts beneath it.Open any fileOne public page per file, no account.
Delegated and implementing acts7,000+Followed one by one under the parent file, with their scrutiny deadlines and comitology stage.Open a parent file on the legislation pages. The acts beneath it are listed there.
Decision-makers3,700+MEPs with their committees and voting records, Commission officials by DG, ministers and permanent representation staff on the Council side, and political group staff.Bring an MEP, a Commission official or a PermRep contact you deal with.
Committee meetingsThe Parliament committee meetings we coverWho spoke, attributed to the member by name, with the committee and the meeting date.An attributed excerptFurther up, under One picture.
Consultations and organizations57,800 submissions, 26,401 organizations, 665 filesIdentified responses to Commission consultations, in the filer's own words, each linked to the submission on the Commission's own record.Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,800 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.Who Filed WhatFree, no account.
EventsUpcoming, on the public agendaPublic policy events in Brussels: what is on, when and where.The agendaOpen to anyone.
LanguagesOther EU languagesSources not written in English are shown to you in English, with the original one click away and labeled.Ask to see an item next to its original on the call.

Legislative files: the public record as of 15 Oct 2026. Acts and decision-makers are rounded down; decision-makers are people in role.

Filed most recently, by identified organizations.

Each filer below resolves to a Transparency Register number. Each row opens the submission itself.

16 most recent · at most two per file
Everything filed recently →

What we do not do.

The edges are here so you can decide before a call, not after a quarter.

Do you have leaks?

No. We publish what the institutions publish. If your work turns on what was said behind a closed door, buy that from a service that reports it.

Can you tell us how a vote will go?

No. You get the calendar, the scrutiny deadlines and what has actually moved. We do not predict outcomes.

Do you cover national legislation?

Coverage is EU level. A transposition deadline shows where the EU file records one; national law is not followed as a record of its own.

Attachés and national officials?

Ministers, permanent representatives and some of their staff are in the directory. Officials inside national ministries are not.

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