Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
10
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Pearle*-Live Performance Europe (Performing Arts Employers Associations League Europe) (PEARLE*)
EU Transparency Register
4817795559-48 First registered on 27 Oct 2008
Goals / Remit
PEARLE*-Live Performance Europe is the European sector federation of Live Performance organisations: it represents through its members associations more than 10,000 organisations and enterprises in the music and live performance sector. Its objects are: the exchange of information, experiences and ideas of common interest to members working in the Music and Performing Arts sector; the obtaining of information concerning all European issues relating to members’ interests; facilitating collective decisions in areas of common interest; expressing Pearle*’s views in discussions with bodies whose activities are relevant to Pearle*; lobbying in accordance with collective decisions reached by the members’ representatives to
EU and other authorities; carrying out all activities connected with the above mentioned activities.Main EU files targeted
visas
employment of third country nationals
copyright
taxation and VAT
posting of workers
digital agenda
radio spectrum
internal market
culture
regional policy
education and skills
external relations
environment (ecodesign; CITES)
consumer rules (online ticketing- secondary ticketing)Address
Head Office
Square Sainctelette, 19
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 50% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 20 Apr 2019
Name Start date End Date Anita DEBAERE 29 Aug 2023 28 Aug 2024 Ms Silke Lalvani 21 Jul 2022 21 Jul 2023 Anita DEBAERE 06 Jul 2022 06 Jul 2023 Anita DEBAERE 24 Oct 2019 24 Oct 2020 Anita DEBAERE 13 Oct 2018 24 Oct 2019 Ms Silke Lalvani 28 Mar 2018 28 Mar 2019 Anita DEBAERE 05 Oct 2017 05 Oct 2018 Ms Silke Lalvani 29 Mar 2017 28 Mar 2018 Anita DEBAERE 10 Oct 2016 04 Oct 2017 Ms Silke Lalvani 11 Feb 2016 10 Feb 2017 Anita DEBAERE 07 Oct 2015 05 Oct 2016 Anita DEBAERE 09 Jul 2014 07 Jul 2015 Ms Silke Lalvani 21 Aug 2014 12 Aug 2015 Anita DEBAERE 09 Jul 2014 27 Jan 2015 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Anita Debaere (Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Liesbeth Dejonghe (Secretary)
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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
PEARLE*:
- has an observer status with WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation;
- is member of EEN (European Employers’ Network) facilitated by Businesseurope (the Confederation of European Business);
- is registered as an employers’ organisation by ILO (International Labour Office) with observer status at the International Labour Conference;
- is a partner of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee ‘Live Performance’ together with European Arts & Entertainment Alliance (EAEA), representing FIM (International Federation of Musicians), FIA (International Federation of Actors) and UNI-MEI (Media Arts and Entertainment International).
- is a founding member of Culture Action Europe(the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage)
- is a member of WSG (Wider Spectrum Group)
- is a member of the Tourism manifesto group
- is a member of EIF European Internet Forum
- registered as civil society stakeholder with DG Trade
- is a member of the Voices on culture stakeholder group 'cultural heritage'
- is an initiator and member of the European Alliance for Culture and the ArtsMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
Pearle operates for more than 80% on membership contributions and income. The other funding sources come from reimbursement of costs made as a partner in EU projects.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Consultation Forum#X03609 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3609 #Member #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
publication series 'the ultimate cookbook for the cultural manager' - themes: social security / VAT / Taxation / Copyright / Visas
publication series 'creative skills'
publication: heritage and the live performance sectorOther activities
Pearle* represents the employers at the European sectoral social dialogue committee.
The main sectors where Pearle*'s actions are focusing on are:
- Culture & education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Taxation and VAT
- Intellectual Property/Copyright affairs
- Consumer protection
- Health & Safety
- Trade
- Enterprise
- Radio spectrum
- Mobility for cultural workers
- Visas
- State aid
- public services
- Environment (& CITES)
- Other issues discussed within the European sectoral social dialogue committee 'live performance'- Meetings
Meetings
10 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 14 Feb 2024 Location Brussels Subject Meeting on the employment situation of artists and cultural professionals. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Attending - Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Apr 2021 Location videoconference Subject Skills roundtable Cultural and Creative Ecosystem Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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Date 12 Apr 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for skills roundtable with the creative cultural industries. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
- Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
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Date 17 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject Cross-border obstacles to taxation of performing artists Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with representatives from Pearle and FIA to discuss cross-border obstacles regarding taxation of performing artists Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - David Boublil (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Jul 2017 Location Brussels Subject Reflection paper on the Social Dimension Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Raquel Lucas (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Jul 2017 Location Brussels Subject Skills, Social dimension of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Julie Fionda (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Mainstreaming of culture Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Alicja Magda Herbowska (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Culture and the Arts in European policy-making Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Alicja Magda Herbowska (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject Spectrum, UHF band Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings