European Writers’ Council-Féderation des associations européennes d’écrivains

1. Status of Official Observer of the World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPO
2. Creators member of IFRRO the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations, representing 160.000 European writers and translators
3. Member of Creativity Works! a multi-stakeholder alliance of European Networks in the field of culture and copyright.
4. Status as invited Observer of the governing bodies of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions UNESCO (2005Convention)
5. Member of the PLR International Steering Committee

None declared

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

50,000€ - 99,999€

None declared

50,000€ - 99,999€

The amount of 15.000 euros received in 2023 from the Directorate- General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) of the European Commission was dedicated to coordinate the very first edition of the Day of European Authors on 27th of March 2023. The EWC received 2227 euros of these 15.000 euros as overhead share.

This amount was for a dedicated project, a mission, therefore it was not for the operational costs.
As the amount was of 15.000 euros, there was no call for expression of interests neither an application to the call.

None declared

Unofficial groupings

-Organisation of at least one event per year in Brussels, with MEP sponsorship or participation; at least one European conference relevant to writers and authors from all creative sectors with guest speakers (including experts, EC representatives and MEPs); organisation or co-organisation of seminars relevant to writers, such as on e-lending in Europe, capacity building, network activities, task forces with seminars and webinars, etc.
-Publication of studies, surveys, reports online via website;
-eNews to our members;
-participating at the new Day of European Authors by the DG EAC;
-campaigns and awareness via e.g., #behindeverybook or #freeallwords;
-project #freeallwords, support project for Ukrainian and Belarusian Writers.

None declared

4 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	05 Jul 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Digital Single Market
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics
  Portfolio	Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
  Attending	Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Composer and Songwriter Alliance

• Date	02 May 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Fair remuneration of authors
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics
  Portfolio	Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
  Attending	Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Federation of Screenwriters in Europe

• Date	02 Mar 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Copyright
  DG	Günther Oettinger
  Attending	Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	European Composer and Songwriter Alliance

• Date	18 Feb 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	copyright
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
  Portfolio	Digital Single Market
  Attending	Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Composer and Songwriter Alliance