Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
29
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)
EU Transparency Register
27471236588-39 First registered on 06 Sep 2011
Goals / Remit
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is the largest organisation of journalists in Europe, representing over 320,000 journalists in 73 journalists’ organisations across 43 countries.
The EFJ was created in 1994 within the framework of the IFJ Constitution to represent the interests of journalists’ unions and associations and their journalists. It has established an independent legal status (number: 0503.985.472) as an international non-profit association (AISBL, association internationale sans but lucratif) since February 2013 according to the Belgian law.
The EFJ fights for social and professional rights of journalists working in all sectors of the media across Europe through strong trade unions and associations. The EFJ promotes and defends the rights to freedom of expression and information as guaranteed by Article 10 of the European convention on human rights.
The EFJ is recognized by the European Union, the Council of Europe and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) as the representative voice of journalists in Europe.
The EFJ has its headquarters in Brussels.
The EFJ supports its affiliates to foster trade unions, to recruit new members and to maintain or create environments in which quality, journalistic independence, pluralism, public service values and decent work in the media exist.Main EU files targeted
IPR/copyright, data protection, data retention, fundamental rights, media freedom, labour rights, Social pillar, freelances, EU transparency, media pluralism, media freedom, public service media, whistleblowers protection
Address
Head Office
Rue de la Loi, 155
Bruxelles 1040
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 22 Mar 2018
Name Start date End Date Rebecca BONELLO GHIO 01 Feb 2024 31 Jan 2025 Renate SCHROEDER 02 Feb 2024 31 Jan 2025 Ms Renate Schroeder 02 Feb 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Rebecca BONELLO GHIO 01 Feb 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Rebecca BONELLO GHIO 04 Nov 2022 04 Nov 2023 Ms Renate Schroeder 15 Oct 2022 14 Oct 2023 Ms Renate Schroeder 14 Nov 2019 14 Nov 2020 Ms Camille PETIT 28 Aug 2019 28 Aug 2020 Ms Camille PETIT 10 Jan 2019 28 Aug 2019 Ms Renate Schroeder 30 Oct 2018 30 Oct 2019 Ms Camille PETIT 01 May 2018 22 Dec 2018 Ms Camille PETIT 09 Jun 2017 01 Feb 2018 Ms Pamela MORINIÈRE 11 Nov 2016 10 Nov 2017 Ms Renate Schroeder 22 Oct 2016 21 Oct 2017 Ms Camille PETIT 05 Sep 2016 02 May 2017 Ms Yuk Lan Wong 05 Dec 2015 03 Dec 2016 Ms Renate Schroeder 17 Oct 2015 15 Oct 2016 Ms Renate Schroeder 05 Sep 2014 01 Sep 2015 Ms Yuk Lan Wong 06 Sep 2014 02 Sep 2015 Mrs Renate Schroeder 05 Sep 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Marc GRUBER 04 Sep 2013 03 Sep 2014 Mr Marc GRUBER 27 Oct 2012 12 Sep 2013 Mr Marc GRUBER 09 Dec 2011 27 Oct 2012 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Yuk Lan Wong (European Policy Officer)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Gutierrez Ricardo (General Secretary)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade unions and professional associations
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Networking
Affiliation
The EFJ is an affiliate of:
- European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
The EFJ/IFJ is an observer member of the Council of Europe, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, UNESCO.
The EFJ is member of Alter-EU, the coalition for ethics in EU lobbying.
more see: http://europeanjournalists.org/partners/Member organisations
The EFJ has 73 member organisations. All their information can be found here http://europeanjournalists.org/members/
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
541,727 € (Source: European Commission DG Justice)
Other financial info
The EFJ is a trade union organisation that is mainly financed by membership fees (see list of EFJ member organisations here: http://www.ifj.org/members/europe/efj-members/)
The total income in 2015 was 376,64000 € in which the income from membership was 174320€. The rest of the income comes from donors that fund the project activities (mainly on capacity building for trade unions). The main donors include European Commission, LO TCO Biståndsnämnd and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
High-Level Expert Group on Fake News#E03567 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3567 #Member #C#Sub Group 3 A Role and responsibilities of news media organisations/press
Groups (European Parliament)
The EFJ monitors and participates the work of European Parliament, in particular the commitees on culture, employment, legal affairs, home and justice, Civil Liberties
The EFJ monitors and participates the work of European Parliament, in particular the commitees on culture, employment, legal affairs, home and justice. It requests meeting with MEPs.Communication activities
The EFJ publish a bi-monthly newsletter - EFJ Focus on the activities of the organisation. It can be found at the website www.europeanjournalists.org
Other activities
Press Freedom:
In Hungary: The EFJ was heavily involved in discussions with members of the European Parliament before the vote of a Resolution on press freedom in Hungary calling the Commission to act on press freedom in general across Europe. EFJ regularly participates in hearings on media freedom and media pluralism.
Whitleblowers protection is focus after adoption of trade secrets directive.
issues in social field: Social Pillar, precarious work, Social dialogue
Atypical workers in the media sector
- Discussion with Commission and Parliament on recast of late payment directive (payment to freelances when considered as self-employed within 30 days);
- relations the competition unit of Commission
Broadcasting :
Defence of public sevice values in journalism. Concerns over the impact of political advertisements on editorial independence during election campaigns and the impact of product placement (pp) on editorial content in broadcasting and also on online activities of broadcasters.
Social Dialogue in the Audiovisual Sector (SDAV):
The EFJ is member of the SDAV.
Authors’ rights: very active in lobbying on Copyright Directive together with other authors
- relations with EU Commissioners (within DG CONNECT) and European Parliament on the impact of new technologies, the need to reinforce authorship and moral rights at EU level, the recognition of a right to remuneration for primary and secondary uses of journalists’ works (the current EU communications on Intellectual Property in the Internal Market contains clear recognition of journalists as authors and the need for them to have a say in the use of their work) and unfair contracts
-lobby on the future orphan work directive and will pursue its actions in relation to the directive on collective management, future European Commission’s work on licensing and private copy dialogue. It spoke at the EU hearing on collective management (November 2010) , European Parliament conference on the Future of copyright in the digital era (June 2011), and the European Parliament Working group on copyright (June 2011)
-lobby against buy-out contracts.- Meetings
Meetings
29 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 01 Feb 2024 Location videoconference call Subject European Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Jan 2024 Location Brussels Subject European Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Nov 2023 Location Brussels Subject European Media Freedom act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Sep 2022 Location videoconference call Subject European Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jul 2022 Location videoconference Subject European Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 29 Apr 2022 Location Phone call Subject Protection of Jouronalists, disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Nov 2021 Location VC Subject SLAPP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
- Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Apr 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Webinar - “EU policies and instruments to ensure media independence” Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Apr 2021 Location call Subject Media literacy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Dec 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Exchange on the Media Action Plan Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Dec 2020 Location videoconference Subject Media freedom, EDAP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 15 Jul 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Responsibility and accountability of online platforms Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Apr 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Freedom of press and rights of journalists Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
- Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 17 Apr 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Economic impact of COVID-19 Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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Date 27 Mar 2020 Location videoconference Subject Media freedom/COVID-19 Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
- Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 06 Feb 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Safety of Journalists Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
- Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jun 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Digital Single Market, Copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Competition Attending - Friedrich Wenzel Bulst (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Subject Freedom of panorama, copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
- Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jul 2016 Location Brussels Subject copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Jul 2016 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jun 2016 Location Brussels Subject Copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 May 2016 Location Brussels Subject Fair remuneration of authors Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)
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Date 02 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 18 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject copyright, Panorama exception Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject Authors' rights, cross-border access to content Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Berlaymont Subject Trade Secrets & Freedom of Expression Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Bernd Martenczuk (Cabinet member)
- Bernardus Smulders (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Apr 2015 Location Brussels Subject Copyright, DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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