Overview
Lobbying Costs
450,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
47
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Publishers Council (EPC)
EU Transparency Register
4456380381-30 First registered on 09 Sep 2008
Goals / Remit
The European Publishers Council (EPC) is a high level lobby group of Chairmen and Chief Executives of leading European media corporations. Our goal is to protect the freedom of expression in editorial and advertising content and to represent the business interests of EPC members. Our members' companies are delivering a diverse range of quality, independent content across different platforms and devices bringing print or digital newspapers, magazines, journals, eLearning solutions, books and broadcasting to citizens across the EU and globally.
Main EU files targeted
Digital Single Market
Copyright
Enforcement
eCommerce
Broadcasting
Media Pluralism and Freedom of Expression
Competition Policy
Data Protection
Big Data
Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
VAT Harmonization
Education and eLearning
Net Neutrality
Freedom to Advertise
Internet Security and Regulation
Access to major events and sports rightsAddress
Head Office
43 Avenue des Arts
Brussels B1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 50% 2 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 19 Jul 2019
Name Start date End Date Nikolaos MOSCHAKIS 07 Mar 2024 06 Mar 2025 Angela WADE 28 Feb 2024 27 Feb 2025 Mr Nikolaos Moschakis 07 Mar 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Angela Wade 28 Feb 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Angela Wade 02 Mar 2023 11 Mar 2024 Mr Nikolaos Moschakis 09 Feb 2023 09 Feb 2024 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Angela Mills Wade (Executive Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Angela Mills Wade (Executive 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
Members of
- Creative and Media Business Alliance (CBMA)
- Linked Content Coalition (LCC)
- The Industry Coalition for Data Protection (ICDP)
- News Media Coalition (NMC)
- European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA)
- Advertising Information Group (AIG)
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA)
- European Internet Forum (EIF)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
450,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
European Alcohol and Health Forum#E02224 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2224 #Member #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Publishers Right
http://www.publishersright.eu
Empower Democracy
http://www.empower-democracy.eu
ARDITO
https://www.ardito-project.eu/
Linked Content Coalition
http://www.linkedcontentcoalition.org/Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
47 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 29 Sep 2022 Location Brussels Subject Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Jul 2022 Location Brussels Subject European Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe
- European Magazine Media Association
- International Press Institute
- ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression
- Reporters sans frontières
- European Newspaper Publishers' Association
- News Media Europe
- Europäisches Zentrum für Presse- und Medienfreiheit
- Committee to Protect Journalists
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Date 13 Jun 2022 Location Anvers Subject Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 May 2022 Location Brussels Subject Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Apr 2020 Location Videoconference Subject COVID-19 impact on news media Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jan 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject State of media sector, copyright implementation, advertising market, digital services, data Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Anthony Whelan (Cabinet member)
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Date 31 Jan 2018 Location Brussels Subject The VAT for digital publications Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Antoine Kasel (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Sep 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Manuel Mateo-Goyet (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Jun 2017 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 22 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 01 Feb 2017 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market Strategy and Investment Plan for Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Antti Timonen (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Nov 2016 Location Brussels Subject E-privacy review Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 09 Nov 2016 Location BXL Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Subject Copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 01 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Subject Publisher's rights / copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Sebastian Kuck (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Jul 2016 Location Brussels Subject Publishers and copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 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 30 Jun 2016 Location Brussels Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 23 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - 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 11 Dec 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 02 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject AVMSD DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 02 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
- Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Dec 2015 Location BXL Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject AVMSD DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 07 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
- Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 13 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 15 Apr 2015 Location Brussels Subject Copyright / DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 30 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 25 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market and Copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Adrienn Kiraly (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Feb 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Working lunch Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)
- Martin Selmayr (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Receives CEOs of European Publisher Groups Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Jean-Claude Juncker (President)
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Date 26 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 26 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Copyright, DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 19 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Platforms and data Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
- Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
- Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Publishers in the Digital Single Market DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Ancillary right DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 03 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 21 Jan 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Interoperability and promotion of quality digital educational resources Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market, copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
- Marlene Holzner (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Jan 2015 Location BXL Subject Copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings