Corporate Europe Observatory

Politician(s) lobbied: Lynn Boylan (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: Sharing information

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Lynn Boylan (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: To contact members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee, in the run up to the committee's confirmation vote on the outcome of the trilogue negotiations, to ask them to reject the agreed compromise text as demands on consumer choice and patents from the original European Parliament mandate were lost in the trilogue negotiations.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Barry Andrews (MEP), European Parliament; Barry Cowen (MEP), European Parliament; Lynn Boylan (MEP), European Parliament; Nina Carberry (MEP), European Parliament; Regina Doherty (MEP), European Parliament; Luke Ming Flanagan (MEP), European Parliament; Kathleen Funchion (MEP), European Parliament; Billy Kelleher (MEP), European Parliament; Ciaran Mullooly (MEP), European Parliament; Seán Kelly (MEP), European Parliament; Michael McNamara (MEP), European Parliament; Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (MEP), European Parliament; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament; Maria Walsh (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: To encourage MEPs to read our new article in run up to the plenary vote on new rules for genetically modified organisms: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/biotech-lobby-groups-are-set-trap-farmers-and-breeders-patent-minefield and to ask them to vote to safeguard genetic modification-free farming and the labelling of genetically modified foods, and to stand up against patented crops.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Barry Andrews (MEP), European Parliament; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament; Barry Cowen (MEP), European Parliament; Billy Kelleher (MEP), European Parliament; Ciaran Mullooly (MEP), European Parliament; Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (MEP), European Parliament; Kathleen Funchion (MEP), European Parliament; Luke Ming Flanagan (MEP), European Parliament; Lynn Boylan (MEP), European Parliament; Maria Walsh (MEP), European Parliament; Michael McNamara (MEP), European Parliament; Nina Carberry (MEP), European Parliament; Regina Doherty (MEP), European Parliament; Seán Kelly (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: We were part of a wider campaign and hosted this email action on our website to call on members of the public to email MEPs to safeguard genetically modified-free farming and the labelling of genetically modified foods, and to stand up against patented crops: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/take-action-say-no-deregulation-gmo-food

Methods: Unknown

Politician(s) lobbied: Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament; Kathleen Funchion (MEP), European Parliament; Lynn Boylan (MEP), European Parliament; Barry Andrews (MEP), European Parliament; Barry Cowen (MEP), European Parliament; Billy Kelleher (MEP), European Parliament; Luke Ming Flanagan (MEP), European Parliament; Michael McNamara (MEP), European Parliament; Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (MEP), European Parliament; Ciaran Mullooly (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: To invite the MEP to read the materials and listen to the podcast: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament; Kathleen Funchion (MEP), European Parliament; Lynn Boylan (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: To inform MEPs about the corporate lobby campaign against the proposal to revise REACH by sending them our new report: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/reaching-out

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Aingeal O'Donoghue (Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union), Department of Foreign Affairs

Intent: To invite the Permanent Representative to read the briefing: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament; Kathleen Funchion (MEP), European Parliament; Lynn Boylan (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: To invite the MEP to read the briefing: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Lynn Boylan MEP (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: MEP to attend and speak

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament; Lynn Boylan MEP (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: Attendance by MEPs

Methods: Email