Association of Insurance & Financial Brokers

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

200,000€ - 299,999€

Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

4 Fte (7)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Association of Insurance & Financial Brokers   (Brokers Ireland)

    EU Transparency Register

    514606449065-58 First registered on 14 Feb 2023

    Goals / Remit

    Brokers Ireland is the leading representative body for Insurance Brokers in Ireland. It has a combined membership of over 1,200 firms representing both General Insurance and Financial Brokers throughout Ireland.
    Brokers Ireland advises members, regulators, government and other stakeholders on key insurance issues in order to raise and maintain industry standards. All member offices embrace strict standards of conduct, professionalism and practice to ensure that high standards of service are delivered to all clients.
    The areas of legislation and regulation are a key priority for Brokers Ireland, and it plays a key role in lobbying on behalf of its members.
    Brokers Ireland is a member of BIPAR, the European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries, whose mission is to promote a European regulatory environment in which intermediaries can prosper and that, at the same time, ensures fair competition, an adequate level of consumer protection and a solid and sustainable insurance market.

    Main EU files targeted

    IDD - Insurance Distribution Directive
    MIFID - Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
    MIFIR - Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation
    Consumer Credit Directive
    DORA - Digital Operational Resilience Act
    CMU/RIS - Capital Markets Union/ Retail Investment Strategy
    Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations
    Distance Marketing Directive
    institutions for occupational retirement provision (IORPs)
    Anti money laundering
    GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
    Packaged Retail Insurance-Based Investment Products (PRIIPs)
    Solvency II
    Any other relevant legislation relevant to the intermediary market

    Address

    Head Office
    87 Merrion SquareDublin 2
    Dublin D02 DR40
    IRELAND
    EU Office
    87 Merrion SquareDublin 2
    Dublin D02 DR40
    IRELAND

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    7

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1
    75%3
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    4

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Trade unions and professional associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    BIPAR, the European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries (https://www.bipar.eu/en)
    ISME, the Irish SME Association (https://isme.ie/)
    IMBF is an international organization for national mortgage broker and mortgage finance associations (http://www.imbf.co/)
    ICPSA, Irish Conference of Professional and Service Associations

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    200,000€ - 299,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    200,000€ - 299,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    Cancer

    Communication activities

    Objective is to lobby for proportionate regulation of the intermediary sector - for example in relation to DORA - Digital Operational Resilience Act, the exemption of small to medium size intermediaries. In respect of MIFID - Markets in Financial Instruments Directive/MIFIR - Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation - oppose proposals to introduce a commission ban. In relation to Capital Markets Union/ Retail Investment Strategy lobby Commissioner McGuinness and other relevant MEPS in relation to proposals to ban commission/inducements. Brokers Ireland lobbies MEP directly and also through BIPAR the European Federation of Insurance and financial intermediaries.
    We do so via emails, letters, meetings and distributing our publications.

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    1 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.

    1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

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