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Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
10
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European & International Booksellers Federation (EIBF)
EU Transparency Register
9031106115-62 First registered on 01 Jul 2008
Goals / Remit
EIBF represents national booksellers associations in the EU and beyond. Our members in turn represent a variety of booksellers, including brick and mortar bookshops, online bookshops, independent bookshops, and chains. Through its member associations, we speak on behalf of more than 25,000 individual booksellers.
Our mission is to represent our members and their interests on a global platform, before the EU institutions and other international organisations. We provide policymakers with professional information about the economic, cultural, and educational role booksellers play, and advocate for book-friendly policies, for the benefit of all readers.
By strengthening the link between booksellers associations from across Europe and worldwide, we foster the exchange of best practice between our members and provide a forum for discussion and cooperation between the representative bodies of booksellers throughout Europe and beyond.Main EU files targeted
Fair competition and level playing field for all retailers, especially Digital Markets Act and Digital tax
Interoperability of e-book formats
Cross-border sales of e-books
Favourable taxation of books in all formats to promote reading
Fair lending schemes by libraries for the benefit of the book chain and readers
SME-related policies, especially those targeting retailers
Accessibility Act
Green deal and related legislations with an impact on the book trade and retailers
Copyright as the backbone of the book industry
Freedom of expression
Future of the European book sector
Late Payment RegulationAddress
Head Office
Square Marie Louise 69
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Square Marie Louise 69
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Tora Asling 02 Sep 2024 01 Sep 2025 Lorenzo Dall'Omo 02 Sep 2024 01 Sep 2025 Julie Belgrado 02 Sep 2024 01 Sep 2025 Tora ÅSLING 17 Nov 2023 17 May 2024 Daniel MARTIN BRENNAN 18 Nov 2023 18 May 2024 Ms Julie Belgrado 14 Jan 2023 13 Jan 2024 Tora ÅSLING 15 Nov 2022 15 Nov 2023 Daniel MARTIN BRENNAN 12 Nov 2022 11 Nov 2023 Ms Julie Belgrado 21 Sep 2021 22 Sep 2022 Daniel MARTIN BRENNAN 20 Sep 2021 21 Sep 2022 Ms Julie Belgrado 01 Oct 2019 01 Oct 2020 Daniel HÜBNER 14 Sep 2019 22 Feb 2020 Daniel HÜBNER 21 Aug 2019 07 Sep 2019 Ms Francoise Dubruille 06 Dec 2017 05 Dec 2018 Ms Julie Belgrado 06 Dec 2017 05 Dec 2018 Ms Clara LAMBERT 28 Feb 2017 25 Jun 2017 Mr Tommaso FABRIS 07 Feb 2017 01 Jun 2017 Mr Balint SEDLMAYR 29 Nov 2016 26 Mar 2017 Mr Balint SEDLMAYR 05 Sep 2016 29 Nov 2016 Ms Francoise Dubruille 22 Aug 2016 19 Aug 2017 Ms Julie Belgrado 22 Aug 2016 19 Aug 2017 Ms Soumia Sassoui 02 Mar 2016 31 May 2016 Mr Daniel MAIR 14 Aug 2015 12 Feb 2016 Ms Francoise Dubruille 30 May 2015 28 May 2016 Ms Julie Belgrado 30 May 2015 28 May 2016 Ms Francoise Dubruille 18 Jun 2014 30 May 2015 Ms Francoise Dubruille 01 Jun 2013 31 May 2014 Ms Francoise Dubruille 30 Aug 2012 17 Jun 2013 Mrs Françoise DUBRUILLE 16 Jan 2012 06 Jun 2012 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 and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
EIBF is part of Creativity Works!, a leading coalition of organisations, federations and associations representing Europe’s cultural and creative sectors. (http://www.creativityworks.eu)
EIBF is part of the SDG Book Club, a book club that aims to use books as a tool to encourage children ages 6-12 to interact with the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a curated reading list ofbooks from around the world related to each of the 17 SDGs in all six official UN languages—Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdgbookclub/)
EIBF has an ex-officio position within the board of the International ISBN Agency (https://www.isbn-international.org/)
EIBF is part of the UNESCO's World Book Capital City Advisory Committee: https://www.unesco.org/en/world-book-capital-networkMember 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
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Recovery and Resilience Facility: analysis and preparation of infographics with funding opportunities for cultural sector, with a specific focus on bookselling: https://europeanbooksellers.eu/press/national-recovery-and-resilience-plans-how-do-they-help-booksellers
EIBF monitoring and public statements on Digital Markets Act file: https://europeanbooksellers.eu/press/eibf-calls-ambition-ahead-trilogue-negotiations-digital-markets-act
Interoperability campaign, within the framework of the Digital Markets Act negotiation process: https://europeanbooksellers.eu/press/dma-and-interoperability-what-about-e-books
Joint letters with cultural sector organisations on priorities for the cultural sector: https://europeanbooksellers.eu/press/secure-future-cultural-life-europe
EIBF Insights external newsletters, aimed at wider network: https://europeanbooksellers.eu/press/new-edition-eibf-insights-0
EIBF statement on the directive on a minimum corporate tax rate:https://europeanbooksellers.eu/press/eibf-welcomes-agreement-eu-minimum-corporate-tax-rate-directive
Freedom of expression charter: https://europeanbooksellers.eu/press/eibf-unveils-freedom-expression-charter-after-month-long-campaign
EIBF position on the Late Payment Regulation: https://europeanbooksellers.eu/press/eibf-position-late-payment-regulation-proposal
All EIBF communication activities can be found on the EIBF website: https://europeanbooksellers.eu/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
10 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 11 Dec 2023 Location videoconference Subject proposition de règlement sur les retards de paiement Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jun 2022 Location Brussels Subject Trends in books selling Digitalisation Impact of COVID on the sector European Book Week Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Lauriane Bertrand (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jun 2022 Location Brussels Subject Trends in books selling Digitalisation Impact of COVID on the sector European Book Week Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Innovation and Youth Attending - Lauriane Bertrand (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Apr 2020 Location video-conferencing Subject Impact of COVID-19 on the sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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Date 09 Apr 2020 Location video-conferencing Subject Impact of COVID-19 on the sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Innovation and Youth Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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Date 06 Sep 2017 Location Brussels Subject Geoblocking, e-books Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Aug 2016 Location Brussels Subject European Union Prize for Literature Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Alicja Magda Herbowska (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 04 Apr 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Meeting with Ms Dreher, Mr Paagman and Mr Treutenaere on Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Jean-Claude Juncker (President)
- Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Feb 2016 Location BXL Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market, Copyright DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)