The Council of European Dentists (CED) held a policy event at the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 March 2026, hosted by MEP Dario Tamburrano, to press EU decision-makers on sugar regulation. The event addressed what CED described as a systemic health crisis: food industry sugar use exceeds by more than threefold the level consistent with WHO recommendations that free sugars account for less than 10% of daily energy intake. Sugar remains the primary modifiable risk factor for dental caries and a key driver of non-communicable diseases including diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Speakers from national dental associations in the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, Germany, and France presented advocacy models and oral health promotion campaigns. The non-governmental organisation Safe Food Advocacy Europe (SAFE) presented EU-funded school food literacy projects and a smartphone app called BiteWatch designed to support healthier food choices. CED called on EU institutions to introduce trade barriers and tariffs on imported raw sugar, adopt an EU-wide tax on sugar-sweetened beverages extended to ultra-processed foods, implement a sugar advertising directive covering digital channels and targeting children, require mandatory front-of-packet labelling, and ban high-sugar products in schools, hospitals, and care homes. The recommendations frame oral health prevention as part of a broader systemic health model rather than a standalone clinical concern.