About Ecopreneur.eu
About our mission, organisation, members, advocacy, team, projects, history, statutes and annual reports
Mission
Ecopreneur.eu is the European Sustainable Business Federation, representing over 3 500 SMEs and larger companies across Europe committed to sustainability and often pioneering circular business models. Our mission is to promoting a resilient, low-carbon, circular and inclusive economy by advocacy and projects at the EU level. With our member associations and associate company members, Ecopreneur.eu is the only cross-sectoral business association advocating ambitious EU measures, rules and regulations. Through Ecopreneur.eu our members strengthen the voice of sustainable business in Brussels. We advocate a new economic framework in which sustainability is promoted, the environment respected, and ecological principles are followed. Ecopreneur.eu and our members bring concrete experience from pioneering companies into the political debate and show best practice examples that prove the viability of sustainable solutions.
Organisation
Ecopreneur.eu is an international non-profit association (association internationale sans but lucratif, aisbl) under Belgian law based in Brussels. We have full members (national and European business organisations) and associate members (individual for-profit companies), and are open to non-profit organisations supporting sustainable business. The Board of Directors consists of representatives of our full members. In addition we have an Advocacy Group of companies and a Working Group Sustainable Textiles.
Advocacy
Ecopreneur.eu advocates at the EU level for a resilient, low-carbon, circular and inclusive economy. Our positions are based on a systemic, cross-sectoral perspective, aiming for a level playing field for sustainable business models withregional support for SMEs. We are the voice of businesses committed to sustainability across Europe, bringing their expertise and knowledge into the policy debate to show what needs to be done at EU level for sustainable economic change.
We currently focus our work on the implementation of the Ecodesign Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), a revision of the Public Procurement Directive, and the Circular Economy Act.
History
Ecopreneur.eu is the only cross sectoral business association advocating for ambitious EU policies to drive systemic change towards a sustainable economy. Founded in 2015 on the initiative of Grüne Wirtschaft (Austria), Entreprendre Vert (France) and Bundesverband Nachhaltige Wirtschaft – BNW e.V. (Germany), Ecopreneur.eu was formally established as a legal entity on 23 February 2016.
Team
The team of Ecopreneur.eu – consisting of Members of the Board of Directors, staff and Advocacy Group – work closely together to help set framework conditions on EU, national and regional level for a sustainable economy.
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