Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Europa Distribution
EU Transparency Register
626116910064-95 First registered on 06 Nov 2012
Goals / Remit
With 115 members representing 29 countries (23 European countries + Australia, Canada, Egypt, Israel, Russia, Taiwan), EUROPA DISTRIBUTION aisbl is the Network of independent film publishers and distributors.
For over 14 years, Europa Distribution has been creating new bridges for its members to share knowledge and mutualise experiences. Through dedicated brainstorming and training sessions and gatherings, the aisbl constantly works to enhance the circulation of information and ideas and to improve the curation, promotion and distribution of independent films, with a focus on European ones. Besides offering an insight on the world of independent film distribution to other sectors of the film industry through its open panels, Europa Distribution also aims at helping its members to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of the constantly evolving audio-visual sector.
The association organises and coordinates different workshops, public panels and partnerships. Thr (...)Main EU files targeted
We follow the discussions that have a potential impact on European independent distribution, such as:
- Creative Europe - MEDIA supported schemes (automatic, selective, promotion online, audience development, training...)
- Territoriality
- Media Action Plan
- Implementation AVMSAddress
Head Office
229 Rue Royale
Brussels 1210
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
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
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
EU grant income for closed financial year
102,000 € (Source: Access to Market (Education and Culture Executive Agency))
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Through our activities, we aim to:
- Create and animate a network for independent distributors; allowing them to meet with their European and international peers and share essential experience and knowledge related to their role of films promoters and publishers. Indeed independent distributors create demand and engage audiences for independent films and hence are key players in their circulation, financing them through pre-sales and investing in their curation, promotion (marketing, press, programming…), creation of material, subtitling, dubbing, selling. These exchanges happen in the scope of our workshops and panels, at networking events, or, thanks to the network allowing people to meet, outside our activities.
- Train and inform independent distributors, regardless of their function (acquisitions, marketing and promotion, sales, VoD...) on various aspects of their profession, through the organisation of workshops where they can share their experience with their peers and with experts from the whole audiovisual value chain and in marketing, anti-piracy, every field linked to the work of publishing films. We also organise public panels accessible to all professionals accredited to the film market/festival we are then partnering with to inform and exchange with all professionals on our industry, the circulation of films on all platforms, about what distribution means today, its challenges and opportunities and how it resonates with the AV industry. We have also an Exchange Programme, Distributors on the Move, aimed at offering an even deeper form of interpersonal and international collaboration to those distributors who wish to learn new marketing techniques from their colleagues abroad. And last but not least, a new project has been launched in 2020: EDMentorShe is a one-to-one mentoring programme dedicated to women working in film distribution.
We also inform our members and all interested professionals through our social media platforms and dedicated newsletters on what is going on in the AV sector (with a focus on promotion and distribution of course), on our activities and the activities of our partners. We also want to help all professionals to understand better the work of distributors and the market they involve in thanks to articles we or our press partners produce
- Develop partnerships and support exchanges with other sectors of the industry in the aim of improving processes, mutualising costs, strengthening the releases of European films and reaching audiences. These partnerships include of course the festivals we are working with for our workshops and panels, but also our partners from the press, in order to reach out and inform a broader audience about the role of distribution, about our activities and our researches. We also have industry partnerships, as we are always seeking to offer our members solutions to improve their practices and know-how. And last but not least, we are also working regularly with associations
representing professionals from other sectors of the European audiovisual value chain
Our asset is that we represent directly the distribution companies and people working on the field and releasing and promoting European independent films. As such, we act as an interlocutor and are regularly in contact with members of the European Parliament and Commission (especially MEDIA and the DG CNECT) to give our (practical) feedback and input.Other activities
Would you like to know more about our activities and members: www.europa-distribution.org
- Meetings
Meetings
7 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 07 Jul 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Audio-visual sector and EU recovery plan Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 May 2020 Location Video-conferencing Subject The Impact of COVID-19 on the Cultural and Creative sectors, especially on film distribution Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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Date 11 May 2020 Location Video-conferencing Subject The Impact of COVID-19 on the Cultural and Creative sectors, especially on film distribution Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Innovation and Youth Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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Date 03 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM, copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jul 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
- Meetings