European Games Developer Federation

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

25,000€ - 49,999€

Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Games Developer Federation   (EGDF)

    EU Transparency Register

    57235487137-80 First registered on 14 Nov 2011

    Goals / Remit

    The European Games Developer Federation (EGDF) is committed to building a sustainable ecosystem and business environment where autonomous game developers in Europe thrive, in an operational, commercial, and artistic way. The EGDF will act to advance the political and economic interests of the European computer and video games industry by providing a platform for collaboration and discussion between European institutions and game developers.

    EGDF unites national trade associations representing game developer studios based 21 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdoms. Altogether, through its members, EGDF represents more than 2500 game developer studios, most of them SMEs, employing more than 40000 people.

    Main EU files targeted

    Games as cultural products and services, fundamental freedoms, state aid rules, European research funding, European funding for audiovisual media, digital agenda, audiovisual media policies, innovation policy, trade negotiations, immigration, telecommunication policies, copyright, platform regulation, VAT, corporate taxation, consumer protection, protection of minors, data protection, ePrivacy and AI regulation

    Address

    Head Office
    European Games Developer Federation Ekonomisk Förening (EGDF)c/o DATASPELSBRANSCHEN
    Stockholm SE-118 27
    SWEDEN
    EU Office
    EGDF, Eteläranta, 10
    Helsinki 000130
    FINLAND

    Website

    http://www.egdf.eu/

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%1
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 05 Jan 2025

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Hendrik LESSER 20 Jun 2019 01 Jul 2020
    Mr Philipp KRÄMER 20 Jun 2019 01 Jul 2020
    Mr Jari-Pekka Kaleva 29 May 2019 29 May 2020
    Mr Stefan FRÄNKEL 13 Jun 2018 29 May 2019
    Mr Jari-Pekka Kaleva 18 May 2018 18 May 2019
    Mr Hendrik LESSER 28 Feb 2017 23 Feb 2018
    Mr Stefan FRÄNKEL 28 Feb 2017 23 Feb 2018
    Mr Lesser Hendrik 28 Feb 2017 29 Mar 2017
    Mr Fränkel Stefan 28 Feb 2017 29 Mar 2017
    Mr Jari-Pekka Kaleva 24 Feb 2017 23 Feb 2018
    Mr Jari-Pekka Kaleva 04 Mar 2016 24 Feb 2017
    Mr Lesser Hendrik 08 Jan 2016 07 Jan 2017
    Mr Jari-Pekka Kaleva 11 Feb 2015 06 Feb 2016

    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 and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    European Internet Forum: https://www.internetforum.eu
    Coalition for App Fairness: https://appfairness.org

    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

    25,000€ - 49,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    25,000€ - 49,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A
    European Internet Forum

    Communication activities

    EGDF white paper on How to Enable Digital Growth in Europe can be accessed here: http://www.egdf.eu/documentation/egdf/

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    2 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.

    • Date 15 Oct 2021 Location Brussels
      Subject DSA
      Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
      Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age
      Attending
      • Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 08 Mar 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject AVMSD
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Marlene Holzner (Cabinet member)
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