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Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
8
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European & International Booksellers Federation (EIBF)
EU Transparency Register
9031106115-62 First registered on 01 Jul 2008
Goals / Remit
EIBF represents national booksellers associations in the EU and beyond. Our members in turn represent a variety of booksellers, including brick and mortar bookshops, online bookshops, independent bookshops, and chains. Through its member associations, we speak on behalf of more than 25,000 individual booksellers.
Our mission is to represent our members and their interests on a global platform, before the EU institutions and other international organisations. We provide policymakers with professional information about the economic, cultural, and educational role booksellers play, and advocate for book-friendly policies, for the benefit of all readers.
By strengthening the link between booksellers associations from across Europe and worldwide, we foster the exchange of best practice between our members and provide a forum for discussion and cooperation between the representative bodies of booksellers throughout Europe and beyond.Main EU files targeted
Fair competition and level playing field for all retailers, especially Digital Markets Act and Digital tax
Interoperability of e-book formats
Cross-border sales of e-books
Favourable taxation of books in all formats to promote reading
Fair lending schemes by libraries for the benefit of the book chain and readers
SME-related policies, especially those targeting retailers
Accessibility Act
Green deal and related legislations with an impact on the book trade and retailers
Copyright as the backbone of the book industry
Freedom of expressionAddress
Head Office
Square Marie Louise 69
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Square Marie Louise 69
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Sep 2023
Name Start date End Date Ms Julie Belgrado 14 Jan 2023 12 Jan 2024 Ms Tora ÅSLING 15 Nov 2022 14 Nov 2023 Mr Daniel MARTIN BRENNAN 12 Nov 2022 10 Nov 2023 Ms Julie Belgrado 21 Sep 2021 22 Sep 2022 Mr Daniel MARTIN BRENNAN 20 Sep 2021 21 Sep 2022 Ms Julie Belgrado 01 Oct 2019 01 Oct 2020 Mr Daniel HÜBNER 14 Sep 2019 22 Feb 2020 Daniel HÜBNER 21 Aug 2019 07 Sep 2019 Ms Francoise Dubruille 06 Dec 2017 05 Dec 2018 Ms Julie Belgrado 06 Dec 2017 05 Dec 2018 Ms Clara LAMBERT 28 Feb 2017 25 Jun 2017 Mr Tommaso FABRIS 07 Feb 2017 01 Jun 2017 Mr Balint SEDLMAYR 29 Nov 2016 26 Mar 2017 Mr Balint SEDLMAYR 05 Sep 2016 29 Nov 2016 Ms Francoise Dubruille 22 Aug 2016 19 Aug 2017 Ms Julie Belgrado 22 Aug 2016 19 Aug 2017 Ms Soumia Sassoui 02 Mar 2016 31 May 2016 Mr Daniel MAIR 14 Aug 2015 12 Feb 2016 Ms Francoise Dubruille 30 May 2015 28 May 2016 Ms Julie Belgrado 30 May 2015 28 May 2016 Ms Francoise Dubruille 18 Jun 2014 30 May 2015 Ms Francoise Dubruille 01 Jun 2013 31 May 2014 Ms Francoise Dubruille 30 Aug 2012 17 Jun 2013 Mrs Françoise DUBRUILLE 16 Jan 2012 06 Jun 2012 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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
EIBF is part of Creativity Works!, a leading coalition of organisations, federations and associations representing Europe’s cultural and creative sectors. (http://www.creativityworks.eu)
EIBF is part of the SDG Book Club, a book club that aims to use books as a tool to encourage children ages 6-12 to interact with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a curated reading list ofbooks from around the world related to each of the 17 SDGs in all six official UN languages—Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdgbookclub/)
EIBF has an ex-officio position within the board of the International ISBN Agency (https://www.isbn-international.org/)
EIBF is part of the UNESCO's World Book Capital City Advisory Committee: https://www.unesco.org/en/world-book-capital-networkMember 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 2022 - Dec 2022
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
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Other activities
EIBF's lobbying efforts in recent years have focused on:
- VAT: Reduced VAT rate for (e-)books, as a tool to promote reading
- DIGITAL AGENDA: How can booksellers adapt to digital bookselling and make sure that a fair playing field is guaranteed for all the stakeholders in the digital arena (CNECT & GROW)
- Interoperability of e-book formats
- Sales of e-books across borders (CNECT & GROW)
- STATISTICS and the booksellers' claim for meaningful data on bookselling (EUROSTAT)
- EU CULTURAL POLICY in general and the support to reading in particular
- COPYRIGHT: Creative content, intellectual property and DRM, the fight against piracy (CNECT)
Meetings
Meetings
8 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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 14 Jun 2022 Location Brussels Subject Trends in books selling Digitalisation Impact of COVID on the sector European Book Week Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Innovation and Youth Attending - Lauriane Bertrand (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Apr 2020 Location video-conferencing Subject Impact of COVID-19 on the sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Innovation and Youth Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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Date 06 Sep 2017 Location Brussels Subject Geoblocking, e-books Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Aug 2016 Location Brussels Subject European Union Prize for Literature Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Alicja Magda Herbowska (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Apr 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Meeting with Ms Dreher, Mr Paagman and Mr Treutenaere on Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Jean-Claude Juncker (President)
- Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Feb 2016 Location BXL Subject copyright Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 27 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market, Copyright Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 27 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market, Copyright Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)