Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
John Higgins
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| Position: |
Director General |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Patrice Chazerand
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| Position: |
Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
14 rue de la Science
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32 2) 609 53 10 |
| Fax number: |
(+32 2) 609 53 39 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
DIGITALEUROPE is the voice of the European digital technology industry, which includes large and small companies in the Information and Communications Technology and Consumer Electronics Industry sectors. It is composed of major multinational companies and national associations from 28 European countries.
DIGITALEUROPE is the association for the European Digital Technology Industry, which includes inter alia the information technology, communications technology and the consumer electronics industry sectors (together the "Digital Technology Industry”). Given the increasingly global nature of the Digital Technology Industry, DIGITALEUROPE’s activities, including consideration of membership, cover Europe in a geographic sense, including EU accession countries, EU accession candidate countries and non EU countries.
DIGITALEUROPE aims to facilitate non-commercial collaboration and coordination between member companies and national trade associations across the European Union, and assist them in sharing best-practices in many business operations and facilitating the agreement of international standards in close collaboration with international standards bodies. DIGITALEUROPE provides a full range of services to its membership and generally to stakeholders in the digital economy, including:
Promoting the development of best practices and benchmarking within the DIGITALEUROPE membership;
Providing up-to-date, high-value industry data and information to members on all aspects of the Digital Economy in Europe and around the world;
Delivering a forum for knowledge exchange and information sharing between members through industry programmes and pan European events;
Monitoring all relevant initiatives to industring, informing members through regular mailings, emails, newsletters and information transfer, as well as the hosting and and organisation of meetings and events.
Company Members:
Acer, Alcatel-Lucent, AMD, Apple, BenQ, Blackberry, Bose, Brother, Canon, Cassidian, Cisco, Dell, Epson, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Ingram Micro, Intel, JVC Kenwood, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Lexmark, LG Electronics, Loewe, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Motorola Mobility, Motorola Solutions, NEC, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Océ, Oki, Oracle, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Qualcomm, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, SAP, Sharp, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Sony, Sony Mobile Communications, Swatch Group, Technicolor, Texas Instruments, TP Vision, Toshiba, Xerox, ZTE Corporation.
National Trade Associations:
Belgium: AGORIA; Bulgaria: BAIT; Cyprus: CITEA; Denmark: DI ITEK, IT-BRANCHEN; Estonia: ITL; Finland: FFTI; France: SIMAVELEC; Germany: BITKOM, ZVEI; Greece: SEPE; Hungary: IVSZ; Ireland: ICT IRELAND; Italy: ANITEC; Lithuania: INFOBALT; Netherlands: ICT Nederland, FIAR; Poland: KIGEIT, PIIT; Portugal: AGEFE; Romania: APDETIC; Slovakia: ITAS; Spain: AMETIC; Sweden: IT&Telekomföretagen; United Kingdom: INTELLECT, Belarus: INFOPARK; Norway: IKT NORGE; Switzerland: SWICO; Turkey: ECID, TESID, TÜBISAD; Ukraine: IT UKRAINE
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
6
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
| First name
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Surname
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Start Date |
End Date |
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Valentina
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BOLOGNESI
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10/11/12
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09/10/13
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Jean-Marc
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Leclerc
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08/03/13
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06/03/14
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Patrice François
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CHAZERAND
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10/11/12
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09/10/13
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Klaus-Dieter
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Axt
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10/11/12
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09/10/13
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Sylvie
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Feindt
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10/11/12
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09/10/13
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Anna-Verena
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Naether
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10/11/12
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09/10/13
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Julia
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Jazinska
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06/11/12
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09/10/13
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Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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The main activities of DIGITALEUROPE in the previous year include work related to the following programmes
Drafting Technical Regulations of the Customs Union on Energy Efficiency Requirements
Consultations on Smart cities
Public consultation on the Green Paper on a common strategic framework for EU research on Innovation funding
Commission Green Paper on the Modernisation of EU Public Procurement Policy Towards a More Efficient European Procurement Market
Commission consultation on the legal framework for the fundamental right to protection of personal data
European Commission’s reflection document on "Creative Content in a European Digital Single Market: Challenges for the Future"
The European Commission's public consultation on universal service principles in e-Communications
Consultation on open internet and net neutrality in Europe
Future of Cohesion Policy
Framework Directive on Collective Rights Management
Horizon2020
Work for the harmonisation of mobile phone chargers.
e-Skills Week campaigns
DIGITALEUROPE organised several events in the European Parliament in collaboration with MEPs.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Audiovisual and Media
- Climate Action
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Culture
- Customs
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Energy
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Regional Policy
- Research and Technology
- Taxation
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
- Youth
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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DIGITALEUROPE is a founding member of the ICT4EE Forum created in response to the EC Recommendation to adopt and implement a common framework to increase the sector’s energy and carbon footprints, set targets and benchmark progress.
DIGITALEUROPE is a member of CENELEC.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
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01/2013
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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800000
€ - 900000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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DIGITALEUROPE estimates that the amount declared above, which represents approximately 45% of the overall costs budgeted of the association is associated with the direct lobbying of EU institutions. Further costs are dedicated to activities such as information gathering and distribution, policy and sector/ industry monitoring, preparation of publications and participation on an ad hoc basis in EU funded service contracts/
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