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Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
11
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 Booksellers Associations in the EU, the EEA and out of Europe. Through its Member Associations, EIBF represents more than 25.000 individual booksellers.
In this capacity, EIBF is the legitimate voice of the European & International booksellers.
The objectives of EIBF are to represent the interests of the booksellers in particular vis-à-vis the European institutions.
By gathering booksellers associations from across Europe, EIBF also fosters exchanges of best practices between its members and acts as a forum for discussion and cooperation between national booksellers associations.Main EU files targeted
• Fair competition and level playing field for all retailers
• Favourable taxation of books in all formats to promote reading
• Interoperability of e-book formats
• Fair lending schemes by libraries for the benefit of the book chain and readers
• Cross-border sales of e-books
• Copyright as the backbone of the book industryAddress
Head Office
Square Marie Louise 69
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 17 Aug 2018
Name Start date End Date Tora ÅSLING 17 Nov 2023 16 May 2024 Daniel MARTIN BRENNAN 18 Nov 2023 17 May 2024 Ms Julie Belgrado 14 Jan 2023 13 Jan 2024 Tora ÅSLING 15 Nov 2022 15 Nov 2023 Daniel MARTIN BRENNAN 12 Nov 2022 11 Nov 2023 Ms Julie Belgrado 21 Sep 2021 22 Sep 2022 Daniel MARTIN BRENNAN 20 Sep 2021 21 Sep 2022 Ms Julie Belgrado 01 Oct 2019 01 Oct 2020 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
Ms Francoise Dubruille (Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Françoise Dubruille (Director)
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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 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
EIBF's lobbying efforts in recent years have focused on:
-VAT: Reduced VAT rate for books, as a tool to promote reading (TAXUD)
-COPYRIGHT: Creative content, intellectual property and DRM, the fight against piracy (CNECT)
-STATISTICS and the booksellers' claim for meaningful data on bookselling (EUROSTAT)
- 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)
-EU CULTURAL POLICY in general and the support to reading in particular
Meetings
Meetings
11 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 11 Dec 2023 Location videoconference Subject proposition de règlement sur les retards de paiement Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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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 Digital Economy and Society Attending - Lauriane Bertrand (Cabinet member)
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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 Digital Economy and Society Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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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 DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market, Copyright DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 27 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market, Copyright DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)