European & International Booksellers Federation
Acronym: EIBF
General Information
Identification Code: 9031106115-62
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Entity Form: AISBL
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 7/1/2008
Last Update: 3/11/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: 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.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Business and industry
- Climate action
- Competition
- Consumers
- Culture
- Culture and media
- Digital economy and society
- Economy, finance and the euro
- Education and training
- Single market
- Taxation
- Trade
Levels of Interest:
- european
- global
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: 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 Regulation
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/
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Square Marie Louise 69
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office
Address: Square Marie Louise 69
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 3
Members F T E: 3
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: List of EIBF members can be found here: www.europeanbooksellers.eu
Organisation Members: 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-network