FREE ICT EUROPE FOUNDATION
Budget
€100 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
6
1.4 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & 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.
EU Legislative Interests
Ecodesign, ESPR, Circular Economy, Circular Action Plan, Single Digital Market, Right to Repair, Hardware, Software, Small Medium Enterprises, Sovereignty, Competition, Data Act, Cyber Resilience Act, e-Waste, Green Public Procurement, Multi stakeholder Platform ICT Standardisation
Communication Activities
Speaking at events, annual conference, participating in consultations, member of Right 2 Repair Europe, released papers, blogs and several publications.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
European Right to Repair, https://repair.eu/ Partner in CEDaCi Research on sustainability for Data Centres, https://cedaci.org/
Organisation Members
Besides a core group op companies that support us directly, support of organisations like: The Service Industry Association, https://www.servicenetwork.org/ The Brokersite creates an alliance that let us represent more than 1,000 companies in Europe; https://www.thebrokersite.com/ and www.europeanbrokermeeting.com UNEDA: https://uneda.com/ ADISA ITAD Certification: https://adisacertification.com/ National Network NL https://circulaire-it.nl/ National Network FR https://www.sirrmiet.fr/ No public list of company members is available, some are listed with their logo at our website. Membership info can be found at: https://www.freeict.eu/join-us
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.