Biodiversity Policy Engagement Analysis
Biodiversity Lobbying Overview: ACEA appears to have low engagement on biodiversity-related policy. Its overall position (over the past two years) is broadly negative, with its positions on policies that aim to reduce biodiversity loss due to pollution or environmental contamination being particularly negative.
Top-line Messaging on Biodiversity Loss: ACEA has very limited top-line messaging on biodiversity, with no such communications within the last two years.
Engagement with Biodiversity-Related Regulations: ACEA appears to have had limited engagement on biodiversity-related regulations. However, it has consistently engaged, primarily negatively, on specific policies related to pollution. For example, ACEA has opposed measures to classify D4, D5, and D6 silicones as persistent organic pollutants in a March 2024 letter to senior members of the European Commission, as well as opposing recycled content mandates within the EU Batteries Regulation and advocating against circular economy provisions within the Critical Raw Materials Act in the same March 2023 position paper. ACEA also opposed the inclusion of fluoropolymers within regulations on PFAS in an October 2023 joint statement, as well as continually not supporting proposals for the universal restrictions of PFAS, most recently seen in a December 2023 presentation and comments made to the European Chemicals Agency in September 2023. Its position on the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation appears equally negative - a February 2024 joint position paper evidenced ACEA’s opposition to ELVR revisions, with a December 2024 statement on their corporate website also showing support for the weakening of recycled content targets.
In its EU Transparency Register entry, last updated by ACEA in January 2025, it also disclosed engagement on the REACH regulation. However, it has not disclosed a position on these proposals during the past two years.
Position on Statutory Protection of Wildlife: ACEA does not appear to have engaged on the statutory protection of wildlife within the last 2 years.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate biodiversity policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the association’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q1 2025.