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

EU Legislative Interests

Main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files followed by the organisation: -The EU copyright legal framework and the implementation of EU directives. -The Digital Single Market :The active follow up and interest representation during the effective implementation of the EU AI Act and its Code of Practice -Monitoring of the implementation of Public Lending Right by Member States in the EU and advocating for its enforcement and full implementation - Actively monitoring and representing interest during the European decision-making process concerning the Multiannual Financial Framework 2028-2034; with special focus on the Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the 'AgoraEU' programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/692 and (EU) 2021/818 [ COM(2025) 550 final 2025/0550 (COD)] -Monitoring of the implementation of the Collective Rights Management Directive. -Monitoring of the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty (access to works for the visually and print impaired). -Meetings with individual MEPs on specific reports, motions for resolutions, etc. -Providing data on the writing profession in the EU; participating at workshop organised by the European Commission on the book sector; -Answering EC and EP surveys and consultations; speaking at hearings by invitation from MEPs, or EP Committees, and the EC. -Attending EP events that deal with topics about authors or creators in Europe, on copyright reform in the EU, and relevant subjects. -Attending EP events upon invitation

Communication Activities

-Organisation of 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 capacity building, network activities etc. -Publication of studies, surveys, reports online via website; -eNews to our members; -participating at the Day of European Authors by the DG EAC in 2023 and 2024 (implementation of the Tour of European Authors project within the initiative of Day of European Authors in 2023 and 2024); -Campaigns and awareness via e.g., #behindeverybook; -project #freeallwords, support project for Ukrainian and Belarusian Writers

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

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. Status as invited Observer of the governing bodies of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions UNESCO (2005 Convention) 4. Member of the PLR International 5. Member of the Authors’ Group / AI Coalition: informal alliance of 13 authors’, performers’ and other creative workers’ organisations

Organisation Members

The European Writers Council is currently constituted by 53 organisations. The list of the member organisations is also available at https://europeanwriterscouncil.eu/our-members/: A:LL Association: Luxembourgish Literature (LUX) Authors’ Association Austria / IG Autorinnen Autoren (AUT) Basque Writers' Association – Euskal Idazleen Elkartea (ES) Community of Belarusian Writers (BY) Union of Bulgarian Writers - Съюзът на българските писатели (BGR) Association of Catalan Language Writers – Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (ES) Croatian Writers’ Association – Društvo hrvatskih književnika (HR) Croatian Writers Society – Hrvatsko društvo pisaca (HR) Cyprus Writers' Union – Ένωση Λογοτεχνών Κύπρου (CY) Literature and Criticism Association – Όμιλος Λογοτεχνίας και Κριτικής (CY) Czech Writers' Association - asociace spisovatelu (CZ) Danish Authors' Society – Dansk Forfatterforenings (DK) The AC Committee for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights UBVA (DK) Danish Authors of Fiction and Poetry / Danske Skønlitterære Forfattere (DK) Dutch Association of Writers and Translators – Auteursbond (NL) Estonian Writers' Union – Eesti Kirjanike Liit (EE) The Union of Finnish Writers – Suomen Kirjailijaliitto (FI) Association of Finnish Nonfiction Writers – Finlands facklitterära författare rf (FI) Flemish Writers' Association – De Vlaamse Auteursvereniging (BE) The Society of French Literati - Société des gens de lettres (FR) The National Union of Authors and Composers (SNAC) - Syndicat national des Auteurs et des Compositeurs(FR) Association of Writers in Galician Language – Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega (ES) Association of German Language Crime Writers - SYNDIKAT (GER, CH, AUT) German Writers' Union – Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller (GER) Hellenic Authors' Society - Η Εταιρεία Συγγραφέων (EL) Society of Hungarian Authors – SZÉPÍRÓK TÁRSASÁGA (HU) Hungarian Writers' Association – Magyar Írószövetség (HU) Writers' Union of Iceland – Rithöfundasamband Islands (IS) Irish Writers' Union – Comhar na Scríbhneoirí (IE) Italian Federation of Trade Associations of Authors– Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori – FUIS (IT) Latvian Writers Union – Latvijas Rakstnieku savienība LRS (LV) Lithuanian Writers' Union – Lietuvos Rasytoju Sajunca (LT) Association of Writers of Macedonia / Друштво на писателите на Македонија (MK) Association of Writers of Maltese – L-Akkademja tal-Malti (MT) Montenegrin Independent Writers' Association / Crnogorsko društvo nezavisnih književnika (CDNK) (ME) Norwegian Authors' Union – Den Norske Forfatterforening (NO) Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association – Norsk Faglitteraer Forfatterog Oversetterforening (NO) The Norwegian Association of Literary Translators – Norsk Oversetterforening (NO) The Norwegian Society of Authors – Forfatterforbundet (NO) Norwegian Writers for Children- Norske Barne- og Ungdomsbokforfattere (NO) Literary Union Poland - Unia Literacka (PL) Writers' Union of Romania – Uniunea Scriitorilor din România (RO) Slovak Writers' Association – Asociácia spisovateľov Slovenska, ASOS (SK) Slovene Writers’ Association – Društvo Slovenskih Pisateljev (SI) The Society of Authors (UK) Spanish Writers' Association – Asociación Colegial de Escritores (ES) Swedish Association of Educational Writers – Sveriges Läromedelsförfattares Förbund (SE) Swedish Writers’ Union - Sveriges Författarförbund (SE) The Society of Swedish Authors in Finland – Finlands svenska forfattareförening (FI) Swiss professional association of authors and literary translators – A*dS (CH) ASSOCIATE MEMBERS The Finnish Authors’ Copyright Society - Sanasto (FI) Portuguese Authors Society – Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (PT) La Scam / Société civile des auteurs multimedia (FR)

Additional Information

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. In December 2023, the EWC won the tender EAC/2023/LVP/0007 - Organisation of the Tour of European authors on the occasion of the Day of European Authors 2024. For the implementation of this project in March 2024 (more than 120 reading sessions in the countries of the Creative Europe Programme, in addition to traveling authors among Member States) the EWC was reimbursed in November 2024 with the amount of 49.388,95 euros.