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Overview
Lobbying Costs
800,000€ - 899,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
BIPAR - European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries (BIPAR)
EU Transparency Register
349128141758-58 First registered on 11 Mar 2021
Goals / Remit
In accordance with our bylaws, the objectives of BIPAR are:
1) to represent the profession and the sector with the European, international or national authorities, institutions and organisations and to provide them with input;
2) to defend and promote the interests of the profession and of the sector and to take actions to this end with the European, international or national authorities, institutions and organisations;
3) to exchange information between its members;
4) to examine jointly subjects of general interest;
5) to inform the public on the role of its members.
BIPAR is the European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries. It groups 47 national associations in 30 countries. Through its national associations, BIPAR represents the interests of insurance agents and brokers and financial intermediaries in Europe.Main EU files targeted
Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD)
Capital Markets Union (CMU) and Retail Investment Strategy (RIS)
Sustainable Finance
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II)
Regulation on the Key Information Documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs)
Prudential regime for investment firms
Pan-European Personal Pension Products (PEPP)
Institutions for Occupational Pension Funds Directive (IORP II)
Consumer Credit Directive (CCD)
Directive on credit agreements for consumers relating to residential immovable property
Digitalisation (DORA – MiCA – DLT / Cyber Resilience Act / Digital and open finance / Artificial Intelligence / Distance Marketing of Financial Services Directive (DMFSD) / Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act / European Strategy for Data: Data Act and Data Governance Act / European Single Access Point (ESAP))
Solvency II Directive
EU Consumer law
Financial education of the consumer
Motor Insurance Directive (MID)
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
Standardisation
Social Affairs
Taxation
DORA
FIDAAddress
Head Office
Avenue Albert-Elisabeth 40
Brussels 1200
BELGIUMEU Office
Avenue Albert-Elisabeth 40
Brussels 1200
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 03 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Zoé Van hamme 28 Oct 2024 27 Oct 2025 Nico DE MAESSCHALCK 24 Sep 2024 23 Sep 2025 Isabelle AUDIGIER 13 Sep 2023 13 Sep 2024 Nico DE MAESSCHALCK 13 Sep 2023 13 Sep 2024 Rebekka DE NIE 13 Sep 2023 13 Sep 2024 Roxanne STEYAERT 13 Sep 2023 13 Sep 2024 Nico DE MAESSCHALCK 29 Oct 2022 13 Sep 2023 Rebekka DE NIE 29 Oct 2022 13 Sep 2023 Isabelle AUDIGIER 30 Nov 2021 30 Nov 2022 Ms Stella MITTA 20 Nov 2021 09 Jul 2022 Nico DE MAESSCHALCK 20 Nov 2021 29 Oct 2022 Rebekka DE NIE 20 Nov 2021 29 Oct 2022 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
World Federation of Insurance Intermediaries (WFII) https://www.wfii.org/
SMEunited (https://www.smeunited.eu/)Member 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
800,000€ - 899,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
800,000€ - 899,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Various public relations activities including social media communications (Twitter, LinkedIn, website)
Various publications available on our website:
- Responses to public consultations (Commission and ESAs, ...)
- Handbook on Cross-Border Insurance Distribution by Insurance Intermediaries in the EU by Steptoe and Johnson LLP
- Discussion note on SFDR compliance by Steptoe and Johnson LLPOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 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 - Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
- Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 13 Feb 2023 Location video-conference Subject Retail investment strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject Retail investment strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)