The DFA risks overcomplicating the EUs dense regulatory framework, potentially causing legal uncertainty, undermining enforcement, and adding complexity for businesses due to overlapping obligations. SMEs face disproportionate compliance burdens, which could favour large incumbents, reduce market diversity, and hinder start-ups, impacting the dynamism of the European digital ecosystem.
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EPICENTER
Academic / research · Belgium · EU Transparency Register 080362721653-38
4
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
4
legislative files
of 665 tracked
4
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,774 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 163 think tanks and research institutions on this site, they rank #49 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
3.6
declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€100K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
3
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2016
in the register since
Declares membership of
- Partner of Atlas Network: https://www.atlasnetwork.org/
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Think tanks and research institutions
- Registered as
- European Policy Information Center (EPICENTER)
- Head office
- Brussels, Belgium
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
EPICENTER filed 4 positions between 22 Nov 2017 and 15 Oct 2025, across 4 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 4 times.
2017 · 1 filed2019 · 1 filed2021 · 1 filed2025 · 1 filed
What they argued
Platform regulation remains unjustified Diego Zuluaga, Director, EPICENTER The Commission has asked for feedback on its impact assessment of platform-to-business (P2B) relations. The IA includes a number of alternative proposals for additional intervention to regulate contractual terms and information provision in this market.
Pay gap data is hard to calculate and hazardous to interpret. Different versions of the pay gap (between full-time workers, part-time workers, mean, median) will result in different answers and trends. The pay gap does not result from men and women doing the same job and being paid unequally. In the UK, there has been an Equal Pay Act since 1970 to prevent this.
There are various arguments against this harmonisation per se, and the use of QMV to achieve it, many of which have been raised by organisations in different Member States through the Commission feedback process.
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