FREE ICT EUROPE FOUNDATION
Acronym: FIE
General Information
Identification Code: 004942218376-96
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Entity Form: Foundation
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 7/30/2015
Last Update: 2/19/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: 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.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Business and industry
- Competition
- Consumers
- Digital economy and society
- Economy, finance and the euro
- Employment and social affairs
- Environment
- Research and innovation
- Single market
- Trade
Levels of Interest:
- european
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: 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
Communication Activities: Speaking at events, participating in consultations, member of Right 2 Repair Europe, released papers and several publications.
EU Supported Forums and Platforms: Task Force Rolling Plan#E02758/1#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=101114 #MEMBER #C#Industry#SMEsEuropean 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
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: SME,Green new deal
Head Office
Address: Gasthuispolderweg24
Post Code: 2807 LL
City: Gouda
Country: NETHERLANDS
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EU Office
Address: Gasthuispolderweg24
Post Code: 2807 LL
City: Gouda
Country: NETHERLANDS
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Complementary Information: For 2022 an application for some Interreg funding resulted in funding received in 2023 and a part will be transferred in 2024.
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 5
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 6
Members F T E: 1.75
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: Besides a core group op companies that support us directly, support of organisations like the Service Industry Association and The Brokersite creates an alliance that let us represent more than 1,000 companies in Europe.
No public list of members is available, some are listed with their logo at our website. Membership info can be found at: https://www.freeict.eu/join-us
Organisation Members: European Right to Repair, https://repair.eu/
Right to Repair Europe
Partner in CEDaCi Research on sustainability for Data Centres, https://cedaci.org/