Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
14
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Alliance for the Freedom of the CAR Repair (AFCAR)
EU Transparency Register
668292216120-05 First registered on 19 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
Created in 1997, the AFCAR Alliance speaks on behalf of a wide range of stakeholders representing motoring consumers, the leasing and rental industry, the lubricants industry, and a major part of the automotive aftermarket ranging from test equipment and diagnostic tool manufacturers, parts wholesalers, data publishers as well as independent and authorised repairers (please find a more detailed description at the end of this paper).
Our aim is to promote free competition and fair access to technical information and more generally to all features that allow multi-brand market operators, employing 3.5 million people in over 500.000 companies, to offer competitive repair and maintenance services to the 285 million motoring consumers and duty vehicles operators in the EU. Together, our SMEs constitute a dedicated supply chain, which ensures the competitiveness and dynamism of the automotive industry sector as a whole. Our members are an integral part of the European economy.Main EU files targeted
- eCall & Telematics
- C-ITS
- Access to repair and maintenance information for passenger cars (Euro 5/6), heavy-duty vehicles (Euro VI), motorcycles (L-cat) and agricultural & forestry vehicles (T-cat)
- Electric Vehicles
- Revision of Vehicle Type-approval Framework Directive 2007/46/EC
- GEAR 2030
- Digital single market / Digitalisation / Digital Platforms
- Internal market strategy
- Industry 4.0
- IoT
- EU Data Economy
- Free flow of data
- Autonomous drivingAddress
Head Office
C/O FIGIEFA Boulevard de la Woluwe 42 bte 5
Brussels 1200
BELGIUMEU Office
C/O FIGIEFA Boulevard de la Woluwe 42 bte 5
Brussels 1200
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 Apr 2024
Name Start date End Date Mr Alessandro Salimbeni 01 Apr 2017 31 Mar 2018 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
14 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 13 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject Access to vehicle data Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Simon Genevaz (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Jan 2023 Location Brussels Subject Data Act Regulation and Specific legislation on ‘Access to in-vehicle data & functions’ Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - European Garage and test Equipment Association
- Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
- FIGIEFA - Fédération Internationale des Grossistes, Importateurs & Exportateurs en Fournitures Automobiles / International Federation of Automotive Distributors
- AIRC International
- ADPA - European Independent Automotive Data Publishers Association
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Date 18 Jan 2022 Location Conference call Subject Sector-specific legislation on “access to in-vehicle data and resources” Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean Portfolio Transport Attending - Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 May 2019 Location Brussels Subject 'Access to in-vehicle data' and EC recommendation on '5G, cybersecurity and data governance' Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
- Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 08 Mar 2019 Location Brussels Subject Connected and Automated Mobility Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Silke Obst (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Mar 2019 Location Brussels Subject Extended vehicles Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Mar 2019 Location Brussels Subject Data, mobility Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Mar 2018 Location Brussels Subject Digital automotive services Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Mar 2018 Location Brussels Subject Connected cars topics Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc Portfolio Transport Attending - Silke Obst (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Mar 2018 Location Brussels Subject Connected Cars Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Sep 2017 Location Brussels Subject Vehicle Type Approval Regulation & RMI Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Marika Lautso-Mousnier (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject digitalisation of vehicle repairs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Jan 2016 Location Brussels Subject Connected automatic driving DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digitalisation of vehicle repairs Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)