Overview
WARNING: As this organisation lists one or more EP accredited lobbyists, it may not be probable that its lobbying costs are lower than €10,000.
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
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)
EU Transparency Register
56788289570-24 First registered on 15 Sep 2012
Goals / Remit
The AISBL has no commercial objective and pursues the following non-profit 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, artistic freedom, 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
Main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files followed by the organisation:
-The EU copyright reform.
-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 statistics and other data on the writing profession and publishing in the EU
-Answering EC and EP surveys and consultations; speaking at hearings by invitation from MEPs or EP Committees
-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
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 07 Sep 2016
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 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
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Meetings with Commissioner G. Oettinger and follow-ups with his cabinet; with the cabinet of VP Ansip; with Commissioner T. Navracsics and follow-ups with his cabinet; of EWC President with the President of the European Parliament Mr. Schulz; with other relevant Commissioners.
Meetings with the Copyright Unit (DG CONNECT); with DG EAC.
NoneACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
The Culture & Creative Industries Intergroup.
Communication activities
-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 (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 25 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 proceedings of the annual EWC European conference on Authors' Rights
-EU projects as consortium member (i.e. ARROW Plus; RDI; the EUPL; ALDUS).
-eNews to our members
-publication of papers delivered at our Forum Mare Nostrum event in different countries (Turku, Malta, Cyprus, Marseille, Trieste, etc.).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 the 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 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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