Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€
Financial year: Feb 2023 - Jan 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
FREE ICT EUROPE FOUNDATION (FIE)
EU Transparency Register
004942218376-96 First registered on 30 Jul 2015
Goals / Remit
Free ICT Europe is a nonprofit foundation actively promoting the Information Communication Technology Secondary Market within Europe. Our objective is to secure the right of ownership and the freedom for consumers and businesses alike to freely choose their sales, maintenance and repair providers. We can achieve this by addressing the restrictive practices undertaken by Original Equipment Manufacturers, ensuring serviceability is included as a key component of the Digital Agenda, promoting common standards for reuse and resale of equipment and software and achieving contract transparency to protect end users against unfair business practices.We bring together organisations from the ICT secondary market under the banner of “Freedom to Support, Repair and Resell”. We represent the interests of all operators within this market including Third Party Maintainers, Software Support Organisations, IT Brokers, Spare Parts Suppliers, Used Software resellers and Rental and Leasing Companies.
Main EU files targeted
Circular Economy, Circular Action Plan, Single Digital Market, Right to Repair, Hardware, Software, Small Medium Enterprises, Competition, Ecodesign, e-Waste, Green Public Procurement, SPI, Multi stakeholder Platform ICT Standardisation
Address
Head Office
Gasthuispolderweg
24
Gouda 2807 LL
NETHERLANDSEU Office
Gasthuispolderweg
24
Gouda 2807 LL
NETHERLANDSWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
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
European Right to Repair, https://repair.eu/
Right to Repair Europe
Partner in CEDaCi Research on sustainability for Data Centres, https://cedaci.org/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
Feb 2023 - Jan 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Interreg NW 18,000€ Grant Interreg NW 28,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount sergio fernandes, intely 50,000€ - 99,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name sergio fernandes, intely Closed year Costs
None declared
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
European Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardisation#E02758#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2758 #MEMBER #C#Industry#SMEs
Groups (European Parliament)
SME,Green new deal,Artificial intelligence and digital
Communication activities
Speaking at events, participating in consultations, member of Right 2 Repair Europe, released papers and several publications.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 16 Jan 2025 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Discussion on enhancing circularity in ICT and the challenges faced by the ICT after-market actors DG Environment Attending - Matjaz Malgaj (Head of Unit)