Stéphane Séjourné

Europe’s prosperity and industrial strategy

As Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy, Stéphane Séjourné’s task is to put in place the conditions for our industries and companies to invest, decarbonise and become more competitive. He will work to strengthen Europe’s sovereignty in crucial sectors and technologies.

He is responsible for guiding the work to start a new era of productivity, innovation and competitiveness, looking at all different facets, from the Single Market to research, economy and productivity, trade, customs and financial markets. 

Read more about the European industrial strategy. 

Industry, SMEs and the Single Market

Stéphane Séjourné is also in charge of the Industry, SME and Single Market portfolio. His task is to boost investment, create lead markets for clean tech and put in place conditions for companies to grow and compete globally.

He is responsible for:

• presenting an Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act, to support clean tech in industry 
• leading on the implementation of the Net Zero Industry Act
• developing a future European Competitiveness Fund for innovation and technologies investment
• supporting the setting up of new Important Projects of Common European Interest for the most strategic sectors and technologies
• revising the Public Procurement Directives to ensure security of supply, while simplifying the rules and reducing administrative burden
• developing a Single Market Strategy for a modernised and deeper Single Market and stepping up work on enforcement
• supporting small businesses, notably by improving access to finance and simplifying the regulatory environment
• introducing a new category of small midcaps and assessing whether existing regulation unjustifiably hinders their development
• strengthening the Single Digital Gateway for work, study and business opportunities in another EU country
• setting up an EU Critical Raw Materials Platform and implementing the Critical Raw Materials Act 
• presenting a Circular Economy Act to create market demand for secondary materials and a single market for waste
• developing a steel and metals action plan
• speeding up the development of systemic standards for our resilience and twin transitions, following the evaluation of the Standardisation Regulation
• ensuring the EU’s intellectual property policy continues to reward innovation and creativity, and enforcing the current rules
• enforcing the Foreign Subsidies Regulation

Read more about the EU’s Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.

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Meetings and missions

As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their Cabinet members publish information on and minutes of all meetings they hold with interest representatives. Every two months, they also publish an overview of mission expenses.

• Meetings with Executive Vice-President Séjourné
• Meetings with Executive Vice-President Séjourné's Cabinet members
• Missions of Executive Vice-President Séjourné

European Parliament hearings

Read Executive Vice-President Séjourné's answers to the European Parliament questionnaire.

Declaration of interests

In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Member of the Commission publishes a declaration of interests. The declarations of the Commissioners-designate can be found on the European Parliament’s website, where they were published before the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners.

The declarations of interests of the new Members of the Commission will be updated and published here at the beginning of 2025 in line with Article 3 of the Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission. Machine-readable versions of all declarations will also be made available in line with the requirements of the Code of Conduct. The declarations of interests follow the requirements set out in Article 3 and Annex 1 of the Code of Conduct for Commissioners.