Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Writers’ Council-Féderation des associations européennes d’écrivains (EWC - FAEE AISBL)
EU Transparency Register
56788289570-24 First registered on 15 Sep 2012
Goals / Remit
The EWC AISBL pursues the following non-profit objectives of european and international utility:
- inform and support its member organisations, defend the authors' rights and copyright, the authors’ economic and moral rights; to promote the professional and cultural interests and improve the legal and social status of writers and literary translators in the whole of Europe ;
- to encourage debates in the fields of freedom of expression, artistic freedom, intellectual property and artistic creativity, social status, contractual and working conditions of writers and literary translators ;
- to improve public awareness about copyright, authors' rights and the conditions of authors in Europe ;
- to circulate pertinent information to its member organisations, particularly that relating to community initiatives in cultural, legal and regulatory matters.Main EU files targeted
Main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files followed by the organisation:
-The EU copyright legal framework and the implementation of EU directives.
-The Digital Single Market.
-Monitoring of the implementation of Public Lending Right by Member States in the EU
-Monitoring of the implementation of the Collective Rights Management Directive.
-Monitoring of the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty (access to works for the visually and print impaired).
-Meetings with individual MEPs on specific reports, motions for resolutions, etc.
-Providing data on the writing profession in the EU
-Answering EC and EP surveys and consultations; speaking at hearings by invitation from MEPs, or EP Committees, and the EC.
-Attending EP events that deal with topics about authors or creators in Europe, on copyright reform in the EU, and relevant subjects.Address
Head Office
Rue du Prince Royal 85-87
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue du Prince Royal 85-87
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 19 Apr 2024
Name Start date End Date Ms Zsuzsanna DÓCZY 14 Feb 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Nicole PFISTER FETZ 25 Jan 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Nina KRAMER 13 Oct 2022 13 Oct 2023 Ms Nina KRAMER 26 Aug 2020 26 Aug 2021 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 22 Aug 2020 21 Aug 2021 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 07 Sep 2019 22 Aug 2020 Ms Nina KRAMER 07 Sep 2019 26 Aug 2020 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 04 Oct 2018 07 Sep 2019 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 11 Sep 2017 12 Sep 2018 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 13 Sep 2016 08 Sep 2017 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 20 Aug 2015 21 Aug 2016 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 30 Aug 2014 20 Aug 2015 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 19 Sep 2013 30 Aug 2014 Ms Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz 18 Sep 2012 16 Sep 2013 Complementary Information
Besides the Secretary-General (20%) and the Administration Officer (50%) there is a Board of Directors who are (re-)elected every two years, composed of at least 5 to maximum 7 members:
President, two Vice-Presidents, four regular Board members. Each one of them is a resident of a different European country and works in the board on a voluntary, non-remunerated basis.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 unions and professional associations
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Networking
Affiliation
1. Status of Official Observer of the World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPO
2. Creators member of IFRRO the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations, representing 160.000 European writers and translators
3. Member of Creativity Works! a multi-stakeholder alliance of European Networks in the field of culture and copyright.
4. Status as invited Observer of the governing bodies of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions UNESCO (2005Convention)
5. Member of the PLR International Steering CommitteeMember 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
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant European Commission 15,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
The grants received in 2023 from the European Commission were dedicated to coordinate the Day of European Authors on 27th of March 2023. The EWC received 2227 euros of these 15.000 euros as overhead share.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
CCFG - Cultural and Creators Friendship Group
CW! - CreativityWorksCommunication activities
-Organisation of at least one event per year in Brussels, with MEP sponsorship or participation; at least one European conference relevant to writers and authors from all creative sectors with guest speakers (including experts, EC representatives and MEPs); organisation or co-organisation of seminars relevant to writers, such as on e-lending in Europe, capacity building, network activities, task forces with seminars and webinars, etc.
-Publication of studies, surveys, reports online via website;
-eNews to our members;
-participating at the new Day of European Authors by the DG EAC;
-campaigns and awareness via e.g., #behindeverybook or #freeallwords;
-project #freeallwords, support project for Ukrainian and Belarusian Writers.Other activities
1. Collaboration (information and report sharing, answering specific questions) with several MEPs from different parties and different committees, especially Legal Affairs committee and Culture and Education, the EU Working Group on IPR and copyright, as well as the EP group on creators and the creative industries.
2. Ongoing exchange with several Units of the European Commission to provide evidence-based information and surveys results on the writing profession, the text-sector, copyright, contractual agreements and practices, and the publishing industry.
3. Ongoing work to support access to works for the visually and print- impaired.
Meetings
Meetings
4 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 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 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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