UNI MEI Global Union

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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 2016 - Dec 2016

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.5 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

6

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • 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 400 000 creators, technicians and other workers in the media, entertainments and arts. In Europe, UNI MEI has 70 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 represents at an international level vis-à-vis employers and their associations and inter-governmental organisations, such as the EU Institutions.

    The priorities of UNI MEI set by its General Assembly are:

    To build strategic union power through implementation of strategic campaigns to ensure trade union rights and decent work in global and regional media and entertainment companies. We work towards a global framework agreement with global and regional media and entertainment companies.

    To grow unions and give a global dimension to trade union recruitment. We will give priority to organising campaigns assisting unions through organising projects and solidarity initiatives to win union access, recognition and agreements.


    To raise employment standards by

    • Extending the reach of collective representation and bargaining to all workers in the sector;
    • Campaigning for sustainable funding of public service broadcasting, film, live performance as well as fine arts in order to ensure the quality of employment and of programming in a changing technological environment;
    • Defending intellectual property rights and efficient, transparent collective management of rights;
    • Developing further the cooperation among affiliates with respect to working conditions with focus on equal opportunities, health and safety and training and
    • Building regional and global campaigns directed at companies and industry associations and within social dialogue on those issues to work towards better common standards.

    To make effective social dialogue a reality in more companies and countries and at sector level.

    To represent and make the voice of affiliates heard in regional and international policy making bodies affecting the sector with focus on ASEAN, EU, MERCOSUR and WIPO in order to establish coherent and inclusive audiovisual and cultural policies that favour growth and good & sustainable jobs in our industries, to improve the protection of intellectual property rights and remuneration of creators, to work towards sound state aid rules in broadcasting and film, and to defend the status of workers and their right to freedom of association.

    Main EU files targeted

    The main EU inititiatives and legislative files that UNI MEI follows at this moment are:

    - Digital Single Market Package
    - Labour Mobility Package
    - Modernisation of EU copyright includinge the review of CabSat and the proposal for a EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
    - Review of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive
    - Radio Spectrum Allocation
    - Review of Working Time Directive
    - EU Social Pillar

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue Joseph II, 40
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Rue Joseph II, 40
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 28 Mar 2018

    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

    Mr Johannes Studinger (Head of UNI MEI)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Oliver Roethig (Regional Secretary, UNI Europa)

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Trade unions and professional associations

  • 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, ETUC

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    9,999€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    550,240 € (Source: EU Commission, DG Employment - calls for proposals "Support for EU Social Dialogue" and "Information and training measures for workers' organisations")

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    None

    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 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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