The Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace
Budget
€10 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
0.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
ICOMP’s mission is to promote widespread support for principles that are essential to a healthy online environment. Our key goals are to encourage competition, transparency, data privacy, security and respect for intellectual property protection. Furthermore, ICOMP brings together participants from across the Internet to identify and promote best practices aimed at stimulating creativity and innovation and foster an online environment founded on security, respect and trust. ICOMP’s members collectively support principles which they believe promote: - Healthy competition in online advertising to fund online innovation and content. - Consumer understanding of the ways in which information about them is used and how consumer privacy will be respected to help Internet and e-commerce reach their full potential. - Intellectual property rights to foster creativity and innovation by enabling firms and individuals to capture the commercial value of their efforts. ICOMP’s wo (...)
EU Legislative Interests
ICOMP follows EU initiatives and policies on European Digital Agenda, Digital Single Market, EU Data Protection Reform, Competition Policy, Copyright and IPRs.
Communication Activities
ICOMP promotes the widespread support for principles that are essential to a healthy online environment and for a more competitive, transparent, privacy friendly, and secure online marketplace. It does so though inter alia sponsoring and organising conferences and press roundtables, issuing policy briefs and commissioning consumer research. During the period for which ICOMP has reported financial data (see below), ICOMP’s specific activities falling under the scope of the Register included: - Maintaining ICOMP’s blog (http://www.i-comp.org/blog/) - Meeting with Members of the European Parliament and with Commission officials. - Circulation of newsletters. - Organising events in Brussels. - Organising conferences, webinars and press-round tables. - Issuing policy briefs and discussion papers.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
ICOMP is a member of the following organisations (which are not political or lobbying organisations): SUMA-EV (Association for Free Access to Knowledge) - see http://suma-ev.de PLUS Coalition - To simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights - see http://www.useplus.com
Organisation Members
At the time of this update, ICOMP represents the interests of 21 council members and also has signatories who sign up to its principles. A list of ICOMP council members is maintained on ICOMP’s website: http://www.i-comp.org/members/ (1) The Council & Council Members The Council is the guiding body of ICOMP and consists of ICOMP members making financial contributions to ICOMP. The Council is chaired by Michael Weber. It includes members which are associations, including the Centre of the Picture Industry (“CEPIC”); Associaçío Portuguesa De Software (“ASSOFT”); and SUMA-EV, as well as a number of individual enterprises. (2) Signatories ICOMP also has signatories who have signed ICOMP’s principles and aims: they agree on the need for a more competitive, transparent, privacy friendly and secure online marketplace. ICOMP is supported by 51 such signatory companies, including the Spanish Chapter of the International Advertising Association and the Association of Spanish Editors of Newspapers, (“AEDE”). ICOMP Council members and signatories reside across 18 different countries around the world. Other than the Council, ICOMP also has a Secretariat which is run by a UK registered company, Preiskel & Co LLP, and which is responsible for the administration and Secretariat of ICOMP.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.