Upcoming events (*)
ERIF is planning on organizing a number of events around the following themes:
4 February 2025 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Klaus Welle, Academic Council Chairman, The Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies, “The Next five years: What priorities for the EU Commission”
21 February 2025 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Matthew Tabone, Chef de Cabinet of the President of the European Parliament, “The way forward for the EU: The Better Regulation Agenda in the new legislative cycle”
ERIF is planning on organizing a number of events around the following themes:
4 February 2025 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Klaus Welle, Academic Council Chairman, The Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies, “The Next five years: What priorities for the EU Commission”
21 February 2025 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Matthew Tabone, Chef de Cabinet of the President of the European Parliament, “The way forward for the EU: The Better Regulation Agenda in the new legislative cycle”
Past events
28 November 2024 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Anna Athanasupoulou, Director, Planning, Finance and Digital Solutions, DG GROW, European Commission, “The prospects for regulatory simplification and burden reduction in the upcoming legislative cycle.”
16 October 2024 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Veronique De Waele, Director, Head of Brussels Office, BASF, “Implications of the Antwerp Declaration”
12 June 2024 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Olivier Joris, Executive Manager, EU and International Department Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, and Emelie Mansson, Adviser, Research & Innovation Policy, Business Europe, "Introducing the European Innovation Stress Test and how it relates to the Innovation Principle”
30 May 2024 ERIF Members-only Workshop "EFSA Evaluation 2017-2024 Better Regulation Insights from ERIF"
19 April 2024 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Ann Mettler, Vice President Europe, Breakthrough Energy & founder Energy Resilience Leadership Group, “The impact of Regulation in fostering the green transition and Energy Resilience in the EU"
18 April 2024 ERIF Members-only Science Taskforce Meeting
21 March 2024 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Antonina Cipollone, Head of Unit, Regulatory Scrutiny Board Secretariat, Secretariat-General, European Commission and Bonifacio Garcia Porras, Head of Unit, SME's, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME's, European Commission, “The New Commission: What to expect for SME’s and Competitiveness"
14 February 2024 ERIF Next Generation Taskforce Coffee Break Chat with Maria Spyraki, MEP, "Towards the next EU legislative cycle: The way forward for the EU Green Deal"
1 February 2024 ERIF Members-only Webinar discussion "Essentiality and Allocation of Capital – Update and Review"
18 January 2024 ERIF Next Generation Taskforce Coffee Break Chat with Matjaz Malgaj, Head of Unit, Sustainable Products, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission, "The Role of Regulation in fostering the Innovation needed to meet the EU sustainability objectives"
13 December 2023 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion with Klaus Welle, Academic Council Chairman, The Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies, "The Next five years: What priorities for the upcoming legislative cycle?, Brussels
1 December 2023 ERIF High-Level Webinar Conference, "Better Regulation, Investment and Technology: Unleashing Europe’s potential for Dynamism and Prosperity"
15 November 2023 ERIF Webinar Discussion with Paul Carmichael, Professor, Wageningen University Senior Science Leader, Unilever and Matthias Vey, Vice President Scientific Affairs IFRA, Trust in Science: Sectoral experiences and lessons-drawing for better evidence-based decisions-making
24 October 2023 ERIF Webinar Discussion with Susan Dudley, Director, Regulatory Studies Center & Distinguished Professor of Practice Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration, George Washington University, "Making Better Regulation relevant: Insights from the US White House developments in regulatory reform"
19 September 2023 ERIF Members-only Webinar discussion with Lucas Bergkamp, former Professor of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and KU Leuven and former Partner, Hunton & Williams LLP, "Novel Regulatory Philosophies and Better Regulation: Considerations from the ‘PFAS’ dossier"
4 July 2023 ERIF Members-only High-level Workshop with Pascal Leardini, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Operating Officer of the European Commission, Dr. Rolf Höijer, Senior Advisor, Swedish Government Offices and the Chair, Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth (Better Regulation), Council of the European Union, Dr. Judith Ay, Policy Director of the European Roundtable of Industrialists (ERT) and Martynas Barysas, Director, Business Europe, "What Competitiveness Test For Europe’s industrial resilience?
27 June 2023 ERIF Members-only Brainstorm Discussion, "What policy priorities for the next EU legislative cycle"
25 April 2023 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion, with Professor Mark Ferguson, Chairman of the Board, European Innovation Council, “The Green Deal legislative initiatives and Innovation”
18 April 2023 ERIF Members-only Webinar Discussion, with Jolita Butkeviciene, Director for Competencies, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, “Scientific Integrity to support the EU decision-making process: Insights from the JRC”
22 March 2023 ERIF High-Level Webinar Conference with Professor Tim G. Benton, Research Director, Emerging Risks; Director, Environment and Society Programme, Chatham House; Michael Scannell, Deputy-Director General, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission; Chair, European food security crisis preparedness and response mechanism (EFSCM); Koen Deconinck, Economist, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD; Ole Schou, Agronomist, VKST, and farmer, "Food Security: Better Regulation and Strategic Resilience considerations"
19 February 2023 ERIF Members-only Webinar Discussion, with Jean-Philippe Montfort, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP, "The Titanium Dioxide CJEU ruling: Implications on regulatory science and wider impacts"
31 January 2023 ERIF Members-only Webinar Discussion, with Kristina Nordlander, Partner, Allen & Overy, "The Application of the Precautionary Principle in the EU: Latest developments and considerations"
18 January 2023 ERIF Lunchtime Discussion, with Patrick Child, Deputy Director-General, Directorate General for Environment, European Commission, "Making the European Green Deal a success: Sustainability, innovation and Better Regulation", Brussels
12 December 2022 ERIF Presentation by Lorenzo Allio, ERIF Senior Policy Analyst, on "Regulation as an asset" to the OECD Regulatory Policy Committee Symposium, Paris
16 November 2022 Webinar Discussion with with Dr. Vera Rogiers, Professor of Toxicology, Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Co-chair of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS), European Commission, "Scientific Integrity and Consumer Safety"
12 October 2022 ERIF Presentation by Richard Meads, ERIF Rapporteur, on "Risk, Essentiality and the Future Management of Technologies in the EU", to the International Essential Oils (IFEAT) Conference, Vancouver, Canada
3 October 2022 Webinar Discussion with Patrick Brenier, Advisor for the European Research Area and Open Science, DG RTD, European Commission; Muriel Attané, Secretary-General, European Association of Research and Research (EARTO); Luis Neves, Global CEO, Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI); Claire Skentelbery, Secretary-General, Europabio and Durk Krol, Executive Director, WaterEurope, "Platform technologies for the EU Green Deal, prosperity and strategic resilience: What policy and governance for innovation?"
12 September 2022 ERIF Presentation by Dirk Hudig, ERIF Secretary General, on "Risk, Essentiality and Innovation", to the International Seminar on Frangrance and Flavours, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
5 July 2022 ERIF Members-only Webinar Discussion with Daniel Trnka, Acting Head at GOV/REG and other OECD colleagues, "Enhancing Better Regulation in the EU and internationally: Insight discussion with the OECD"
22 June 2022 ERIF Next Generation Green Deal Task Force Talks with Neil Carr, Dow Chemical Company President for Europe, Middle East, Africa and India, "The role of industry to achieve the objectives of the EU Green Deal"
24 May 2022 ERIF Next Generation Green Deal Task Force Talks with Giulia Del Brenna, Head of Unit, DG GROW, European Commission, "The role of Innovation in ensuring the EU’s Strategic Autonomy"
17 May 2022 Webinar Discussion with Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; and Antonio Nicita, Member, Regulatory Scrutiny Board, European Commission, "A Green Deal for all: Ensuring an equitable green transition through Better Regulation"
28 April 2022 ERIF members-only workshop, with Jan Ahlskog, Senior Advisor, Fipra International; Jim Curtis, Commercial and Standards Officer, US Mission to the EU; and Richard Meads, Rapporteur, ERIF, "Essentiality: Stock-taking and impacts on trade and innovation"
23 February 2022 Webinar Discussion with Rebeca Fernandez, Director Food Policy, Science and R&D, FoodDrinkEurope; Theo Vijn, Director Global Regulatory Affairs Biologicals / Immunologicals, MSD Animal Health; and Richard Meads, Rapporteur, ERIF, “Time-to-Market”, Innovation, and Better Regulation"
1 February 2022 Webinar Discussion with Diederick Samsom, Head, Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans ,European Commission, "Making the EU Green Deal work: What framework Conditions for investing in the transition?"
19 January 2022 Webinar Discussion with Jean-Philippe Montfort, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP and Kathleen Garnett, Senior Researcher EU Law and Policy, Wageningen University, "Novel Regulatory Concepts, Management of Potential Harms and Regulatory Predictability: Legal Dimensions of the 'Essentiality' test
For further inquiries about past events, please contact [email protected] The ERIF holds regular discussions, focusing on specific themes. These meetings bring together regulatory experts from a wide range of backgrounds, including the EU institutions, EU Member States and other OECD governments, the OECD, academia, the private sector, NGOs, foundations, and the legal community.
ERIF events are held under Chatham House Rule. Attendance is open to ERIF members and on invitation only.