Overview
Lobbying Costs
105,761€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
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 AISBL has no commercial aims and pursues the following non-profit objectives of 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.
In order to achieve its objectives, the association:
- represents its members and defends their interests at EU level;
- facilitates and encourages both trans-European cooperation and cultural exchange as well as the circulation of literary works – while promoting and defending the diversity of languages and the variety of artistic expression in the literary field;
- organises and co-organises European events such as international conferences, seminars, workshops and symposia.
Generally, the association can undertake all activities relating directly or indirectly to its aims and objectives, or which could facilitate their achievement.Main EU files targeted
Main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files followed by the organisation:
-The EU copyright reform and 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.
-Co-organisation of the EU Prize for Literature, with DG EAC, as consortium member with FEP and EIBF, selected by the European Commission (since 2009).
-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 d'Arlon, 75-77
Brussels B1040
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 05 Sep 2019
Name Start date End Date Nicole PFISTER FETZ 25 Jan 2024 24 Jan 2025 Zsuzsanna DÓCZY 14 Feb 2024 13 Mar 2025 Ms Zsuzsanna DÓCZY 14 Feb 2024 26 Apr 2024 Ms Nicole PFISTER FETZ 25 Jan 2024 26 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 who is the only permanent legal representative, there is a Board of Directors who are (re-)elected every two years, composed of:
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
Ms Myriam Diocaretz (Secretary-General)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Myriam Diocaretz (Secretary-General)
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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
1. Status of Official Observer of the World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPO
2. Associate member of IFRRO the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations, representing European writersMember organisations
1. Associacion Colegial de Escritores (ES)
2. Association des Écrivains Belges de Langue Française - AEBLF (BE)
3. De Vlaamse Auteursvereniging - VAV (BE)
4. Académie Royale de Langue et de Littératures Françaises de Belgique - (BE)
5. Union of Belarusian Writers - UBW (Belarus)
6. Union of Bulgarian Writers - UBW (BU)
7. Croatian Writers' Association (HR)
8. The Croatian Writers’ Society (HR)
9. The Union of Cyprus Writers (CY)
10. The Danish Authors’ Society (DK)
11. Verband deutscher Schriftsteller (DE)
12. Eesti Kirjanike Liit (EE)
13. Suomen Kirjailijaliitto Ry (FI)
14. Finlands Svenska Författareförening (FI)
15. Suomen Tietokirjailijat Ry (FI)
16. Hellenic Authors' Society (EL)
17. The National Society of Greek Authors, Greece (EL)
18. József Attila Kör - JAK (HU)
19. Magyar Írószövetség (HU)
20. Rithöfundasamband Islands (IS)
21. Irish Writers' Union (IE)
22. Latvijas Rakstnieku savienība –LRS (LV)
23. Lietuvos Rasytoju Sajunca (LT)
24. L-Akkademja tal-Malti (MT)
25. Crnogorsko Društvo Nezavisnih Književnika (Montenegro)
26. Auteursbond (NL)
27. Den Norske Forfatterforening (NO)
28. Norske Barne- og Ungdomsbok Forfattere (NO)
29. Norsk Faglitteraer Forfatterog Oversetterforening (NO)
30. Uninuea Scrütorilov din Romania - USR (RO)
31. Liga Scriitoilor Maghiari din Ardeal/ Erdélyi Magyar Írók Ligája (RO)
32. Društvo Slovenskih Pisateljev – Slovene Writers’ Association – SWA (SI)
33. Associació Col.Legial D’escriptors de Catalunya - ACEC (ES)
34. Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana – AELC (ES)
35. Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega – AELG (ES)
36. Euskal Idazleen Elkartea – EIE (ES)
37. Sveriges Läromedelsförfattares Förbund (SE)
38. Sveriges Författarförbund (SE)
39. Autrices et auteurs de Suisse - Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz – AdS (CH)
40. Turkish Authors’ Association - Edebiyatcilar Dernegi (TR)
41. The Society of Authors (UK)
42. The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (UK)
43. Asociace spisovatelů - The Czech Writers Association
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:
1. Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores - SPA (PT)
2. Sanasto Ry, the Finnish Authors’ Copyright Society (FI) -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
105,761€
Other financial info
Funding sources are 50% membership fees and 50% donations from member associations.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
-Organisation of at least one event per year at the European Parliament, with MEP sponsorship; 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, etc.
-Many dissemination activities in at least 12 countries each year to promote the winners of the EU Prize for Literature (EUPL), in collaboration with EC DG EAC; in 37 countries altogether as participants in the Creative Europe Programme.
-Publication of the proceedings of the EWC European conference on Authors' Rights
-EU projects as consortium member (i.e. ARROW Plus; RDI; the EUPL; ALDUS).
-eNews to our membersOther activities
1. Collaboration (information and report sharing, answering specific questions) with several MEPs from different parties and different committees, especially Legal Affairs committee and the EU Working Group on IPR and copyright reform, as well as the EP Intergroup on 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, 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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