Product Liability Directive: an example of how important it is to voice our position in Brussels It has pushed forward by Free ICT Europe that updates to clarify the status of software and data, but also address the fact that technological products always need to be updated over time. Adopted nearly 40 years ago, the…
Free ICT Europe invite you to participate in an industry round table with Daniel Dalton, MEP in the morning of 22 September 2015 at Hume Brophy, Rue de la Science 41, Brussels 1040, Belgium Removing Barriers to Third Party Support and Maintenance Issues Users of ICT systems find themselves in an unenviable position of having…
“Reduce, Re-use, Recycle” are set as the Waste Hierarchy.. Yes recycle the things you can recycle. BUT instead of seeing recycling as ‘job done’ and feeling like we’ve done your bit to save the planet, we should all be looking a little bit deeper than that. We should be looking to Refuse, Reduce and Re-use…
IMPORTANT:Action to list Networking Equipment & Software on ESPR (Ecodesign) – deadline May 12, 2023! Being part of the aftermarket industry we ask you all to respond! The new extended EU Eco-design for Sustainable Products (ESPR) aims to make products sold in the EU more sustainable. The scope of the ESPR list is expanded to…
Driven to reach Sustainability and Circular economy goals, Europe wants to lead the change. The EU Ecodesign Directive is one of the EU tools; aimed at setting mandatory minimum requirements for individual product groups. For new Servers and Storage, ENTR Lot 9, this has now been published and will become effectively in March 2020. Free…
The EcoDesign group Lot 9: Servers and Storage, of which the availability of firmware has been Free ICT Europe’s 1st biggest contribution to the regulations, is under review! This review, gives FIE, and YOU, the opportunity to influence any changes to be made in future text of the regulation which can and will benefit our…
The Free ICT Europe Foundation is lobbying the European Commission and the European Parliament. An expert assessment of the market and its current issues is necessary to inform the view of policymakers in Brussels. Deloitte Economic Advisory has been asked to accompany Free ICT Europe in providing a plan and a report for an economic…
In his blog called “Is the Cloud all huff and puff? IBM and Oracle certainly hope so!“, John O’Shea shares his views on the question: Is the cloud purely for nice-to-have niche or new applications, but not for legacy, mission-critical functions? How do you look at the Strategy of these Giants with running business models…
The European Commission presented its legislative proposal for consumer product Right to Repair on Wednesday, 22 March. Whilst this is a step forward, it is hampered by not including the public and private sector (over 60% of the market) and a failure to curb the restrictive practices of some large manufacturers as well as the…
On October 1,2019, the launch of the Free ICT Europe / Deloitte report was done with a press conference in the Press Club in Brussels. The report reveals the impact of the ICT aftermarket to the European Economy and the Environment. Nurturing the ICT aftermarket, critical for hitting European environmental goals and economy The growing…