CompTIA Public Policy Group in Europe

CompTIA Public Policy Group in Europe

CompTIA's European Public Policy Committee (PPC-E) works on your behalf to encourage and build on the success of Europe's information and communications technology (ICT) industries. PPC-E members are representative of the broad and varied CompTIA European membership.

PPC-E is part of CompTIA's efforts to address technology issues in a worldwide context, while continuing to reflect and enhance the unique cultural, political and economic interests of their respective members.

CompTIA Whitepaper : Competition, Competitors, and Consumer Welfare:
Observations on DG Competition's Discussion Paper On Article 82

European Innovation Forum

Key European Public Policy Initiatives
CompTIA's European public policy office is currently addressing the following key issues facing the ICT industry worldwide:

• e-Commerce and Internet taxation
• Environment and computer recycling
• Government procurement
• Intellectual property
  • CII Patentability
• International trade
• Taxation
• ICT-skilled workforce/training
• e-Skills Competences Consortium (eSCC)
• e-Skills Industry Leadership Board (e-Skills ILB)
• Tunis e-Skills Report

European Public Policy Documents

• "Document Retention Standards: Policy Status of Europe" - 28 May 2007
• "Choice between Multiple Standards:The case of format neutrality" - 18 May 2007
• CompTIA-SME Union joint statement introduced at the occasion of the EP Round Table Breakfast
  "Smart Procurement and Lead Markets: Innovation in a Global World" - 5 December 2006
• April EU ICT eUpdate
  • EU ICT eUpdate Archives - now available!
• EU ICT Governance Tracker
  
• White Paper - European Interoperability Framework
• eSCC Declarations
• CompTIA Comments to the European Commission on RFID Technologies and the EU Data Protection Directive

European Commission Community Patent Consultation

• Cover letter
• CompTIA's responses

For more information on issues and programs, please contact us.