Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers FR |
| Acronym: |
WAN-IFRA FR
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| Legal status: |
Association with legal status registered in France
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| Website address: |
http://www.wan-ifra.org
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Vincent Peyrègne
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| Position: |
CEO |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Stephen Fozard
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| Position: |
Manager Legal Affairs and External Relations |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
96 bis Rue Beaubourg
Paris 75003
FRANCE
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| Telephone number: |
(+33) 147428500 |
| Fax number: |
(+33) 142789233 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
WAN-IFRA (CH) and WAN-IFRA (FR) are world-wide sister organisations dedicated to be the indispensible partners of newspapers and the entire news publishing industry.
WAN-IFRA defends and promotes press freedom, quality journalism and editorial integrity. WAN-IFRA is at the same time a research organisation providing the news publishing industry with applied research in the fields of technology and business.
The news publishing industry comprises both media enterprises with roots in publishing as well as their technology and service providers.
WAN-IFRA sets out especially:
- To defend and promote press freedom and the economic independence which is an essential condition for that freedom.
- To promote the fundamental role of newspapers and the entire news publishing industry in society and in building and sustaining democracy.
- To improve editorial quality and promote ethical journalism.
- To provide expertise and research in publishing strategy, editorial, advertising, marketing, technology, production and distribution issues to the industry.
- To provide a world-wide centre for industry research and implementation and a platform for the exchange of ideas, information and experience between all parties of the news publishing industry.
- To foster international co-operation in order to encourage the culture of reading newspapers through the establishment and development of Young Reader and
Newspapers in Education programmes.
- To provide opportunities for senior news executives to exchange ideas and information about editing newspapers.
- To represent the newspaper and news publishing industry in all international discussions on media issues.
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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: |
10
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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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xxxxx
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Audiovisual and Media
- Education
- Environment
- Information Society
- Research and Technology
- Trans-European Networks
- Youth
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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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formal consultative status at:
UNESCO
United Nations
Council of Europe.
Observer status in WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Member of European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA)
Member of International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC)
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2010
-
12/2010
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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350000
€ - 400000
€
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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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669,632 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PWC) presently audits and approves the financial information of the association, as well as those of most projects realized with sponsorship funds from the donors below:
- European Union
- Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
..etc
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