Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Andrew Chowns
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| Position: |
CEO |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mrs
Victoria Morris
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| Position: |
Head of Communications and Public Affairs |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
31&32 Bedford Street
London WC2E 9ED
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 0207 240 0009 |
| Fax number: |
(+44) 0207 845 9700 |
| Other contact information: |
email address: info@directors.uk.com
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Directors UK is the professional association for film, television and all moving image directors in the UK. The organisation is both the professional association providing services and support to its members and a collecting society for the distribution of secondary rights payments to directors. It seeks to protect and enhance the creative, economic and contractual rights of directors in the UK and works closely with organisations in the UK, Europe and around the world to represent directors' rights and concerns. with over 4,500 current members it represents the overwhelming majority of working film and television directors in the UK.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
15
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Directors UK has been actively responding (either directly or via our industry organisations in Europe) to consultations in the UK and EU institutions on the following issues:
EU Policy Issues:
- EC Consultation on Assessing State Aid for Films and other Audiovisual works
- EU Consultation on online distribution of audiovisual works
- EC Directive on regulation of Collection Management Societies
- An End to buyouts in Europe - SAA, FERA & FSE joint initiative
- EU Private Copying
- EU - Orphan Works
UK policy issues:
- Film Policy Review
- Hargreaves Review of Copyright
- IPO Copyright Consultation
- TV & Film Tax incentives
- Communications Review
- Digital Economy Act
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Audiovisual and Media
- Communication
- Culture
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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SAA, FERA, CISAC, ERA, CCC
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
02/2011
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02/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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We are subject to scrutiny and compliance to CISAC and its rules.
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