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
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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 marketAddress
Head Office
87 Merrion SquareDublin 2
Dublin D02 DR40
IRELANDEU Office
87 Merrion SquareDublin 2
Dublin D02 DR40
IRELANDWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 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
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Categories
Category
Trade unions and professional associations
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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 AssociationsMember organisations
None declared
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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 declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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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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Date 18 Jul 2023 Location Brussels Subject Distribution of Retail financial products Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
- Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings