Agnieszka Vetulani-Cęgiel

Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań

The objective of this paper is to discuss EU lobbying in the area of copyright. Legislation needs to regulate the legal position of various different stakeholders in a balanced manner. However, a number of EU copyright provisions brought into effect over recent years were highly controversial and have led to suggestions that powerful lobbying force...

Artykuł poświęcony jest problematyce reprezentacji interesów w procesie kształtowania polityki publicznej. W szczególności podejmuje kwestie związane z zarządzaniem regulacyjnym dotyczącym relacji z grupami interesu oraz strategii stosowanych przez interesariuszy w procesach konsultacyjnych. Ponadto omówiono rolę, jaką grupy interesu odgrywają w po...

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) marked the rise of a new lobbying power Although traditionally, international trade negotiations have been state-centric forums, public opinion can no longer be ignored when negotiating agreements that include intellectual property rights as a topic of discussion In the aft ermath of the ACTA negotiati...

This paper asks to what extent the European Commission’s stakeholder participation model takes into account non-expert citizen contributions in policy processes pertaining to copyright. In theory, the increasing scale of citizen engagement in stakeholder consultations on copyright could help address the EU’s democratic deficit. The paper analyses t...

Democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern European countries is on the rise. Independent judiciaries, other institutions of liberal democracy, as well as civil liberties and media freedom are being undermined, coupled with the human rights and dignity of certain groups being curtailed or even violated. In these difficult political and legal cir...

This paper investigates how the European Union (EU) and online platforms operationalise ‘political advertising’ and ‘transparency’ in a context of ongoing political and policy debates on regulating online platforms. We compare ongoing EU policy initiatives (revised Code of Practice on Disinformation and Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting...

The article describes the issue of deinstitutionalisation policy in the area of social assistance in the European Union (EU). It presents the genesis, context and evolution of this policy. Based on the analysis of materials available on the official websites of the European Commission (EC), it addresses the issues involved in the assumptions of the...

The lobbying lexicon in the European Union is an innovative undertaking publishing for at least two reasons: the originality of the item publication and its implementation. Lobbying has rich world literature, to a lesser degree domestic. Putting the knowledge of lobbying into publishing form the lexicon is absolutely justified. Increasing number in...

Cambridge Core - Private International Law - Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Relations as a Challenge for Democracy - edited by Dan Jerker B. Svantesson

The objective of the article is to assess the new Commission’s Guidelines on Stakeholder Consultation (2015) in the EU policy-shaping in view of raising effectiveness of the EU governance model and of reducing the EU democratic deficit. The hypothesis of the article is that the Commission’s revision of the stakeholder consultation procedures contri...

Prezentowany artykuł zawiera analizę kampanii lobbingowej organizacji społecznych w sprawie ratyfikowania przez Polskę międzynarodowej umowy ACTA dotyczącej ochrony praw własności intelektualnej. Autorka stawia tezę, że sprawa ta wywołała niezwykłą oddolną mobilizację społeczną zarówno w Polsce, jak i w innych państwach UE, co w znacznym stopniu pr...

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest omówienie sposobu prowadzenia polityki przez Komisję Europejską w zakresie prawa autorskiego. Jest to ważna kwestia z uwagi na szerokie działania Komisji w zakresie dostosowywania prawa autorskiego do potrzeb jednolitego rynku cyfrowego, a także wyzwania dotyczące eksploatacji dóbr niematerialnych związane z rozwojem...

The process of consultations with civil society is important as it contributes to a transparent legislative process and a good balance of interests in the legislative proposals. In the European Union works on the consultations with stakeholders have accelerated with the publication of the White Paper on European Governance in 2001. In Poland, we ha...

Digital and web-based information technology and media give the public new possibilities of exploiting cultural material. Works existing in analogue form can now be easily digitised and therefore reused for different purposes and by different users. Both industries and cultural institutions are taking advantage of the new opportunities opened up by...