Overview
Lobbying Costs
350,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
14
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Association européenne du cautionnement (AECM)
EU Transparency Register
67611102869-33 First registered on 21 Dec 2009
Goals / Remit
AECM has 42 member organizations operating in 22 EU countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Serbia and Turkey. Its members are mutual, private sector guarantee schemes as well as public institutions, which are either guarantee funds or Development Banks with a guarantee division. They all have in common the mission of providing loan guarantees for SMEs who have an economically sound project but cannot provide sufficient bankable collateral. At the end of 2016, AECM member organizations had a total guarantee volume in portfolio of over 85B EUR and issued a total volume of roughly 29B EUR of new guarantees.
Main EU files targeted
- Banking Supervision (i.e. banking package)
- SME Finance (EU SME Action Programme)
- Agriculture (i.e. next CAP)
- State aid (revision of De Minimis Regulation)Address
Head Office
Avenue d'Auderghem, 22-28
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Aug 2017
Name Start date End Date Simon THIBAUD 24 Nov 2023 22 Nov 2024 Mr Simon THIBAUD 24 Nov 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Felicia COVALCIUC 18 Mar 2023 16 Mar 2024 Ms Katrin STURM 15 Mar 2023 15 Mar 2024 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 10 Mar 2023 24 Nov 2023 Ms Felicia COVALCIUC 12 Mar 2022 11 Mar 2023 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 12 Mar 2022 10 Mar 2023 Ms Katrin STURM 12 Mar 2022 11 Mar 2023 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 09 Sep 2020 09 Sep 2021 Ms Felicia COVALCIUC 09 Sep 2020 09 Sep 2021 Ms Katrin STURM 08 Sep 2020 08 Sep 2021 Ms Katrin STURM 12 Sep 2019 08 Sep 2020 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 12 Sep 2019 09 Sep 2020 Ms Felicia COVALCIUC 11 Sep 2019 09 Sep 2020 Ms Katrin STURM 06 Oct 2018 12 Sep 2019 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 11 Sep 2018 11 Sep 2019 Ms Felicia COVALCIUC 08 Aug 2018 08 Aug 2019 Mr Marc Basel 24 Nov 2017 08 Aug 2018 Ms Katrin STURM 09 Nov 2017 06 Oct 2018 Ms Katrin STURM 10 Nov 2016 09 Nov 2017 Mr Marc Basel 11 Sep 2017 27 Oct 2017 Katrin STURM 10 Nov 2016 07 Nov 2017 Mr Marc Basel 21 Apr 2016 20 Apr 2017 Katrin STURM 09 Oct 2015 07 Oct 2016 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Katrin Sturm (Secretary General)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Bernhard Sagmeister (Chairman)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
The SME Finance Forum
http://www.smefinanceforum.org/Member organisations
www.aecm.eu
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
350,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- Annual seminar
- Operational Training Sessions and workshops
- Working Group meetings
- Web site: www.aecm.eu and Social Media
- Annual Activity Report 2016
- Statistical publications: Half-Yearly Statistical Scoreboard and Facts and FiguresOther activities
Mostly: Representation of interests in the fields of state aid, European support programmes (CIP, structural funds), COSME and InnovFin, SME policy, financial market regulation, innovation policy.
Meetings
Meetings
14 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 19 Mar 2024 Location Brussels Subject Introduce AECM and its members Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Attending - Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject InvestEU Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni Portfolio Economy Attending - Julia Lemke (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Sep 2018 Location Brussels Subject AECM and UEAPME position on InvestEU proposal Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Florentine Hopmeier (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject The role of National Promotional Institutions in the next MFF Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Florentine Hopmeier (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Jan 2018 Location Brussels Subject Position of the EU Finances Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Corina Crețu Portfolio Regional Policy Attending - Jan Mikolaj Dzieciolowski (Cabinet member)
- Ioannis Latoudis (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Jan 2018 Location Brussels Subject MFF Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Fabien Dell (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jan 2018 Location Brussels Subject Future of EU Financial services Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Antoine Kasel (Cabinet member)
- Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Dec 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EAPB and AECM joint position on the future of EU Financial Instruments and Cohesion Funding as part of the new MFF DG Regional and Urban Policy Attending - Marc Lemaître (Director-General)
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Date 17 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject AECM’s position paper on the interim evaluation of the COSME programme Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Florentine Hopmeier (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jun 2017 Location Brussels, BERL Subject EU financial instruments in form of guarantees including the respective option of the SME Initiative Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Dermot Ryan (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Dec 2016 Location Brussels Subject financial services agenda Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Oct 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Financial regulation overview Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Jan 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Investment Plan Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists