Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.75 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
4
High-level Commission meetings
15
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 currently 47 member organizations operating in 32 countries in Europe. Its members have in common the mission of providing loan guarantees for SMEs who have an economically sound project but cannot provide sufficient bankable collateral. In 2021, AECM member organizations had a total guarantee volume in portfolio of 312 bn. EUR and supported 6 million SMEs.
The association has the task to defend the interests of its members most of all at European level, to facilitate the exchange of best practices, and to make the guarantee instrument better known.Main EU files targeted
- Banking Supervision / regulatory topics
- SME policy with a focus on access to finance
- Agriculture most of all as to financial instruments
- Regional policy most of all as to financial instruments
- State aid
- Digital Transformation
- Centrally managed EU financial instruments
- Sustainability / taxonomyAddress
Head Office
Avenue d'Auderghem, 22-28
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
Avenue d'Auderghem, 22-28
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 23 Mar 2025
Name Start date End Date Alice Awad 21 Jan 2025 21 Jan 2026 Simon THIBAUD 15 Nov 2024 15 Nov 2025 Felicia COVALCIUC 05 Apr 2024 05 Apr 2026 Katrin STURM 05 Apr 2024 05 Apr 2026 Simon THIBAUD 24 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Felicia COVALCIUC 18 Mar 2023 16 Mar 2024 Katrin STURM 15 Mar 2023 15 Mar 2024 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 10 Mar 2023 24 Nov 2023 Felicia COVALCIUC 12 Mar 2022 11 Mar 2023 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 12 Mar 2022 10 Mar 2023 Katrin STURM 12 Mar 2022 11 Mar 2023 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 09 Sep 2020 09 Sep 2021 Felicia COVALCIUC 09 Sep 2020 09 Sep 2021 Katrin STURM 08 Sep 2020 08 Sep 2021 Katrin STURM 12 Sep 2019 08 Sep 2020 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 12 Sep 2019 09 Sep 2020 Felicia COVALCIUC 11 Sep 2019 09 Sep 2020 Katrin STURM 06 Oct 2018 12 Sep 2019 Mr Felix Christian HAAS 11 Sep 2018 11 Sep 2019 Felicia COVALCIUC 08 Aug 2018 08 Aug 2019 Mr Marc Basel 24 Nov 2017 08 Aug 2018 Katrin STURM 09 Nov 2017 06 Oct 2018 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
Alice Awad is working 80%
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
The SME Finance Forum http://www.smefinanceforum.org/
EMGN https://emgn.eu/
REGAR https://www.redegarantias.com/es/
AECM is a founding member of the Global Network of Guarantee Institutions - GNGIMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
AECM has an external accountant and an external IT provider
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
SME,Competitive European Industry: long-term and sustainable investment
Communication activities
- Public annual seminar cf. https://aecm.eu/events/aecm-annual-event-athens-2023/
- Operational Training Sessions and workshops for AECM's members: https://aecm.eu/events/operational-training-sessions-ots/
- Working Group meetings for AECM's members
- Website: www.aecm.eu and Social Media (LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Annual Activity Report: https://aecm.eu/publications/reports-and-studies/
- Statistical publications: Half-Yearly Statistical Scoreboard and Facts and Figures
- Guarantee related publications like, for instance, the brochure "AECM members’ support programmes beyond standard debt guaranees"
- numerous position papers and a few lettersOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
15 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 05 Feb 2025 Location Brussels Subject Access to finance for SMEs, SME policy, better regulation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné Attending - Valentina Schaumburger (Cabinet member)
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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 - Ioannis Latoudis (Cabinet member)
- Jan Mikolaj Dzieciolowski (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)
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