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Profile of registrant

ISFE - Representing the European Videogame Industry

Identification number in the register: 20586492362-11
Registration date: 28/09/09 14:57:06

The information on this organisation was last modified on 03/09/12 11:13:04
The date of the last annual update was 03/09/12 11:13:04


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: ISFE - Representing the European Videogame Industry
Acronym: ISFE
Legal status: International Organisation with a Scientific and Pedagogical Purpose
Website address: http://www.isfe.eu

Sections

Section: II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations
and more precisely: Trade, business & professional associations

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mr  Little Simon
Position: Managing Director

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mr  Juergen Baensch
Position: EU Affairs Manager

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 15 Rue Guimard 
Brussels B-1040
BELGIUM
Telephone number: (+32 2) 6121777
Fax number: (+32 2) 612 17 78
Other contact information: Senior Counsel - David Sweeney
EU Affairs Manager - Juergen Baensch
Anti Piracy Manager - Dara MacGreevy
Communications Manager - Dirk Bosmans

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: To provide the European Interactive Software ('Videogame') industry with a central point of contact and dialogue with the Government of the European Union and its institutions and with other organisations and institutions thoughout the world which may relevant with respect to International Agreements and Treaties.

To study any legal issue and business affair related to the development, production,, marketing and distribution of interactive software ('videogames') including PC and videogames, reference and educational works distributed on digital storage or any other medium including the internet.

To seek to abolish all barriers, in all circumstances, which may prevent or hinder the free promotion and distribution of videogames within the European Economic Area

To promote and stress the economic and scientific values of the videogame industry in a national, European and international context and to promote the recognition of this concept to legal and publuc authorities.

To protect the intellectual property rights of its members

To gather statistics and other relevant information relating to all aspects of the videogame market and to disseminate and dsitribute any resulting collected data to its members and international institutions and, where necessary, the general public

To encourage scientific research into all aspects of the interactive software ('videogame') industry.
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • global

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 3
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

First name Surname Start Date End Date
Jürgen Bänsch 18/07/12 16/07/13

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:


To provide the European Interactive Software ('Videogame') industry with a central point of contact and dialogue with the Government of the European Union and its institutions and with other organisations and institutions thoughout the world which may relevant with respect to International Agreements and Treaties.

To seek to abolish all barriers, in all circumstances, which may prevent or hinder the free promotion and distribution of videogames within the European Economic Area

To promote and stress the economic and scientific values of the videogame industry in a national, European and international context and to promote the recognition of this concept to legal and publuc authorities.

To protect the intellectual property rights of its members

To gather statistics and other relevant information relating to all aspects of the videogame market and to disseminate and dsitribute any resulting collected data to its members and international institutions and, where necessary, the general public

To encourage scientific research into all aspects of the interactive software ('videogame') industry.

Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Audiovisual and Media
  • Competition
  • Consumer Affairs
  • Culture
  • Customs
  • Development
  • Education
  • Enlargement
  • Enterprise
  • Environment
  • Home Affairs
  • Information Society
  • Internal Market
  • Justice and Fundamental Rights
  • Research and Technology
  • Trade

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.





Financial data

Financial year: 01/2011 - 12/2011
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: 600000  € - 700000  €
Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
Procurement: 0 €
Grants: 0 €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:


Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.