Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (1)
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)
EU Transparency Register
56788289570-24 First registered on 15 Sep 2012
Goals / Remit
The AISBL has no commercial objective and pursues the following not profitable objectives of international utility:
- inform and support its member organisations, defend authors’ economic and moral rights, promote the professional and cultural interests of authors, improve the legal and social status of writers and literary translators in the whole of Europe ;
- encourage general debate in the fields of freedom of expression, intellectual property and artistic creativity, social status, contractual and working conditions of writers and literary translators ;
- Improve public awareness about copyright, authors' rights and the conditions of authors in Europe ;
- 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 may :
- represent its members and defend their interests at EU level;
- facilitate and encourage both trans-European cooperation and cultural exchange as well as the mobility of literary works – while promoting and defending the diversity of languages and the variety of artistic expression in the literary field;
- organise and co-organise 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
-Organisation of at least one event per year at the European Parliament, with MEP sponsorship; of at least one European conference relevant to writers and authors from all creative sectors with guest speakers (EC representatives and MEPs); seminars relevant to writers, such as on e-lending in Europe with the EC staff present, etc.
-Meetings with individual MEPs for mutual exchange of information
-Providing statistics and other data to MEPs and the EC on the writing profession and publishing in the EU
-Answering EC and EP surveys
-Speaking at hearings by invitation from MEPs or EP Committees
-Co-organisation of the EU Prize for Literature, with DG EACAddress
Head Office
Rue d'Arlon, 75-77
Brussels B1040
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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
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 Apr 2015
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 ordinary Board members. Each one of them is a resident of a different European country and works 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 and business 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. Interessengemeinschaft österreichischen Autorinnen und Autoren - IG Autoren (AT)
2. Übersetzergemeinschaft - ÜG (AT)
3. Association des Écrivains Belges de Langue Française - AEBLF (BE)
4. De Vlaamse Auteursvereniging - VAV (BE)
5. Académie Royale de Langue et de Littératures Françaises de Belgique - (BE)
6. Union of Belarusian Writers - UBW (Belarus)
7. Union of Bulgarian Writers - UBW (BU)
8. Croatian Writers' Association (HR)
9. Hrvatsko društvo pisaca, HDP - The Croatian Writers Society, Croatia.
10. Hrvatsko društvo pisaca, HDP - The Croatian Writers’ Society (HR)
11. The Union of Cyprus Writers (CY)
12. The AC Committee for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights UBVA (DK)
13. Verband deutscher Schriftsteller (VS) in ver.di (DE)
14. Europäischen Autorenvereinigung Die KOGGE e.V. (DE)
15. Eesti Kirjanike Liit - EKL (EE)
16. Suomen Kirjailijaliitto Ry (FI)
17. Finlands Svenska Författareförening (FI)
18. Suomen Tietokirjailijat Ry (FI)
19. Conseil Permanent des Écrivains, Illustrateurs et Auteurs de l’Écrit et du Livre (FR)
20. Société des Gens de Lettres de France - SGDL (FR)
21. Hellenic Authors' Society (EL)
22. The National Society of Greek Authors, Greece (EL)
23. The Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature, Greece (EL)
24. József Attila Kör - JAK (HU)
25. Magyar Írószövetség (HU)
26. Rithöfundasamband Islands (IS)
27. Irish Writers' Union (IE)
28. Latvijas Rakstnieku savienība –LRS (LV)
29. Lietuvos Rasytoju Sajunca (LT)
30. Lëtzebuerger Schrëftstellerverband/Fédération luxembourgeoise des écrivains (LU)
31. L-Akkademja tal-Malti (MT)
32. Crnogorsko Društvo Nezavisnih Književnika (CDNK), The Montenegrin Independent Writers’ Association
33. Vereniging van Schrijvers en Vertalers - VSenV (NL)
34. Den Norske Forfatterforening (NO)
35. Norske Barne- og Ungdomsbok Forfattere - NBU (NO)
36. Norsk Faglitteraer Forfatterog Oversetterforening - NFF (NO)
37. Uninuea Scrütorilov din Romania -USR (RO)
38. Liga Scriitoilor Maghiari din Ardeal/ Erdélyi Magyar Írók Ligája (RO)
39. Društvo Slovenskih Pisateljev – Slovene Writers’ Association – SWA (SI)
40. Associació Col.Legial D’escriptors de Catalunya - ACEC (ES)
41. Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana - AELC (ES)
42. Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega - AELG (ES)
43. Euskal Idazleen Elkartea – EIE (ES)
44. Sveriges Läromedelsförfattares Förbund - SLFF (SE)
45. Sveriges Författarförbund - SFF (SE)
46. Autrices et auteurs de Suisse - Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz - AdS (CH)
47. Turkish Authors’ Association - Edebiyatcilar Dernegi (TR)
48. The Society of Authors (UK)
49. The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (UK)
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:
50. The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society –ALCS (UK)
51. Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores - SPA (PT)
52. Sanasto ry, the Finnish Authors’ Copyright Society (FI)
53. La Société civile des auteurs multimedia (S.C.A.M.) (FR) -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
High Level Stakeholder Dialogue, invited by Commissioner G Oettinger, on Access to Knowledge, Berlaymont February 2015.
NoneACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
-Monitoring of the implementation of Public Lending Right by Member States in the EU
-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; regularly in 37 countries.
-Publication of the anthology of the EUPL each year (with the consortium and the EC)
-Publication of the proceedings of the annual EWC European conference on Authors' Rights
-EU project as consortium member, the EUPL financed by the EC.
-eNews to our members
-publication of papers delivered at our biannual Forum Mare Nostrum event in different countries (Turku, Malta, Cyprus, etc).Other activities
1. Collaboration with the Commissioner for Education, Culture, and Youth, all year, on the EU Prize for Literature, and the promotion of reading and literacy in Europe.
2. Collaboration (information and report sharing, answering their specific questions) with several MEPs from different parties and different committees, especially Legal Affairs committee and the Working Group on IPR and copyright reform, as well as the EP Intergroup on the creative industries.
3. Ongoing collaboration with MEPs and several Units of the European Commission in terms of providing evidence-based information and surveys results on authors, the text-sector, and the publishing industry.
4. Ongoing work to support access to works for the visually impaired.
5. Participation in EP events on different aspects of professional creators in Europe.
6. Speaking at MEPs meetings and EP hearings, by invitation.- 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)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings