Brussel, 23 april 2015
Lobbying op Europees niveau
Vicky Marissen
Vicky Marissen
• Belgian with legal background
• Shareholder and Managing Director of PACT European affairs
• Former senior consultant at CLAN Public Affairs
• Former Managing Director of the European Training Institute
• Specialist in EU procedures and comitology
• Lecturer, coach and contributor in books and articles on EU Public Affairs
vm@pacteurope.eu
Our bottom-line
Some of our publications
Dozens of reasons to stay away
from Brussels
The EU Decision-Making System
The Brussels landscape
45.000
officials
18.500 stakeholders
Huge power
Technocrats
European
Proactive
Fragmented
Reactive
No dialogue
No Communication
The real reasons
to get involved in Brussels
EU influence on national legislation
EU Laws
75 %
EU Origin
National Laws
25 %
National Origin
Do you want to…
?
The EU
Decision-Making System
Lobbying is part of the game
Important margins of influence
Understanding the decision-making system
Proposition
Commission
dominant
Adoption
European
Parliament
Council
Execution
Commission
dominant
13
13
Composition 2014-2019
National influence on MEPs is growing!
The ordinary legislative procedure (“codecision”)
EESC
Agreement
CoR
European
Parliament
Common position
Conciliation
Council
Council
1st reading
2nd reading
Conciliation
Legislation adopted
Commission Proposal
European
Parliament
Ordinary legislative procedure statistics
Year 2000
Post-Lisbon
1st reading agreements….…..25%
1st reading agreements….…..85%
2nd reading agreements……..50%
2nd reading agreements….…..10%
Conciliation agreements…….25%
Conciliation agreements….…..5%
The pre-Lisbon Era
• A good balance of power
• Based on a “Community method”
• With relatively good access to information
•
And high margins of influence
Margins for influence
The Post-Lisbon Lobbying Model
Policy-shaping & drafting
Ordinary Legislative Procedure
Comitology and Delegated Acts
A Curve of Influence Detrimental to Lobbying
Ability to influence
100%
?
0%
Drafting
1st reading
2nd reading
Conciliation
Comitology
Economic intelligence
Networks
Coalition
Lobbying
Institutional communication
European public affairs
Strategy
EU Public affairs – implications on all aspects
Legislative monitoring
MALUS
Anticipate
BONUS
Influence
Budget
Draft
1st reading
2nd reading
Conciliation
Get informed and prioritize
Information:
timely & correct
Get intelligence
Analyse &
prioritise
A global network
The ‘bottom’ up approach
Most adapted
Often used
Which vehicle?
AmCham EU
FoodDrink Europe
Europen
UNESDA
CIUS
CocaCola
Communication
• Your arguments and position do not exist, if the it is not understood.
• What is clear for you, is not necessarily so for an EU civil servant
or an MEP
• Lobbying = a competitive world; communication can make the
difference!
• Good communication = story-telling & making the connection
Lobbying post-Lisbon
Technical
knowhow
Credibility
Lobbying
Detailed
analysis
of the
procedure
Communication
Proactiveness
&
anticipation