Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (1)
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 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 (...)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.
-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
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue d'Arlon, 75-77
Brussels B1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 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 09 Oct 2022
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 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
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. Associate member of IFRRO the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations, representing European writers
3. Member of Creativity Works! a multi-stakeholder alliance of European Networks in the field of culture and copyright.Member organisations
1. De Vlaamse Auteursvereniging (BE)
2. Association des Écrivains Belges de Langue Française (BE)
3. Union of Belarusian Writers (Belarus)
4. Union of Bulgarian Writers (BU)
5. Croatian Writers' Association (HR)
6. The Croatian Writers’ Society (HR)
7. The Union of Cyprus Writers (CY)
8. The Literature and Criticism Association (CY)
9. The Czech Writers Association (CZ)
10. The Danish Authors’ Society (DK)
11. The AC Committee for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (DK)
12. German Writers’ Union (DE)
13. Syndikat, The Association of German Language Crime Writers (DE)
14. Estonian Writers’ Union (EE)
15. Union of Finnish Writers (FI)
16. Society of Swedish Authors in Finland (FI)
17. Association of Finnish Non-fiction Writers (FI)
18. La Société des Gens de Lettres (FR)
19. Hellenic Authors' Society (EL)
20. The National Society of Greek Authors, Greece (EL)
21. The Society of Hungarian Authors (HU)
22. Writers’ Union of Iceland (IS)
23. Irish Writers' Union (IE)
24. Latvian Writers’ Union (LV)
25. Lithuanian Writers’ Union (LT)
26. L-Akkademja tal-Malti (MT)
27. Crnogorsko Društvo Nezavisnih Književnika (Montenegro)
28. Auteursbond (NL)
29. Norwegian Authors Union (NO)
30. Norwegian Writers for Children (NO)
31. Norwegian Non-fiction Writers and Translators Association (NO)
32. The Norwegian Society of Authors (NO)
33. Unia Literacka / Literary Union (PL)
34. Uninuea Scrütorilov din Romania - USR (RO)
35. Slovene Writers’ Association (SI)
36. Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (ES)
37. Asociación Colegial de Escritores (ES)
38. Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega – AELG (ES)
39. Euskal Idazleen Elkartea – EIE (ES)
40. Association of Swedish Educational Writers (SE)
41. Swedish Writers' Union (SE)
42. Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz (CH)
43. The Society of Authors (UK)
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:
44. Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores - SPA (PT)
45. Sanasto Ry, the Finnish Authors’ Copyright Society (FI) -
Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant European Commission DG EAC 9,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
The grant from the European Commission DG EAC was a co-financing of the European Union Prize for Literature. In 2022 EWC no longer participates in the new cycle.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication 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, etc.
-Publication of the proceedings of the EWC European conference on Authors' Rights
-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 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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