Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
UNI MEI Global Union (UNI MEI)
EU Transparency Register
82864476764-79 First registered on 22 Sep 2011
Goals / Remit
UNI MEI Global Union affiliates over 160 unions & guilds in more than 70 countries world wide representing over 475 000 creators, technicians and other workers in the media, entertainments and arts. In Europe, UNI MEI has 65 member organisations throughout the EU and other European countries.
The UNI MEI Secretariat based in Brussels serves as a point of contact for its affiliates and the members they represent in the increasingly internationalised creative industries. It is a clearing house for information useful to them, particularly that regarding binational or multinational productions, or movement of workers across national borders. It is concerned with issues ranging from ownership structural evolution, trade policy and technological change to copyright and neighbouring rights, piracy and censorship. It acts to exchange information about collective agreements, legal standards and practices.
UNI MEI Global Union represents the common positions of the categories it re (...)Main EU files targeted
The main EU inititiatives and legislative files that UNI MEI follows at this moment are:
- Digital Services Act
- EU Competition Law and Collective Bargaining of Solo-Self-employed
- Delevering on European Pillar of Social Rights
- Skills Agenda
- Implementation of Directive EU Copyright in the DSM
- Implementation of Directive CabSat
- Implementation of Audiovisual Media Services Directive
- Radio Spectrum AllocationAddress
Head Office
Rue Joseph II, 40
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Joseph II, 40
Brussels 1000
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 03 Jun 2023
Name Start date End Date Mr Johannes Studinger 20 Sep 2019 19 Sep 2020 Mr Johannes Studinger 05 Sep 2018 01 Sep 2019 Mr Johannes Studinger 08 Sep 2017 05 Sep 2018 Mr Johannes Studinger 29 Aug 2016 26 Aug 2017 Mr Johannes Studinger 26 Aug 2015 23 Aug 2016 Mr Richard Polacek 14 Oct 2014 10 Oct 2015 Mr Johannes Studinger 26 Aug 2014 21 Aug 2015 Mr Richard Polacek 31 Oct 2013 14 Oct 2014 Mr Johannes Studinger 24 Aug 2013 23 Aug 2014 Mr Johannes Studinger 29 Nov 2012 12 Sep 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
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
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade unions and professional associations
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Networking
Affiliation
- Sector organisation of UNI Global Union
- Member of the International Arts and Entertainment Alliance (IAEA) and its European Regional organisation, the European Arts and Entertainment Alliance, EAEA
- The IAEA is a member of the International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC
- The EAEA is a member of the European Trade Union Confederation, ETUCMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
1,456,072 € (Source: EU Commission, DG Employment - calls for proposals "Support for EU Social Dialogue" and "Information and training measures for workers' organisations")
Other financial info
UNI MEI's operational costs are financed by membership fees paid by affiliates to UNI Global Unions and its regional organisation, UNI Europa.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
6 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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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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 29 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject Spectrum, UHF band Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
- Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Nov 2015 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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Date 14 Apr 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists