REPROBEL

REPROBEL

Square De Meeûs 23 bte 3
Brussels
B-1000
Belgium
Phone: +32 2 551 03 24
Fax: +32 2 551 08 85
Email: reprobel@reprobel.be
web: www.reprobel.be

Chief Executive:
Managing Director : Benoît Proot
Chief Executive Email : bproot@reprobel.be

KEY REPRESENTATIVES
Director Legal Affairs, Strategy and International Relations : Kurt Van Damme
E-Mail : kvandamme@reprobel.be

HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History of the organisation : a) History summary : Reprobel was incorporated in June 1994. Then, in October 1997, Reprobel was appointed as the only collecting society entitled to administer the remuneration for reprography in Belgium. Collection started in January 1998. The first distribution of fees to the Belgian right holders took place in 2001. Since 2005, Reprobel is also the only collecting society authorized to collect and distribute the remuneration for public lending in Belgium. b) Legal system : With respect to Reprography, legal license, with equipment levy and operator levy (education, public sector and private sector). With respect to the public lending right, legal licence.
Year of incorporation : 1994
Year of first collection : 1998
Year of first distribution : 2001

ORGANISATION
Composition of Board
Total number of Board Members : 14
How are Board Members elected : 7 members are designated by the authors’ collecting societies and 7 by the publishers’ collecting societies
Total number of Author Representatives :7
Total number of Publisher Representatives :7

Members:
Total number of Member Associations : 15
Total Publishers' Associations :8
Total Creators' (authors and visual artists) Associations:7
Remarks about the members : The members of Reprobel are the Belgian collecting societies representing the right holders of reprographic rights of literary and artistic works : Authors' societies : ASSUCOPIE, JAM/SAJ, SABAM, SACD,SCAM, SOFAM and VEWA Publishers’ societies : COPIEBEL, COPIEPRESSE, REPROCOPY, REPRO PP, REPROPRESS, SEMU, LIBRIUS and SABAM

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION

Type of National legislation :

Civil law : Yes
Common law : No
Other Law: Legal licence

LICENCES
Reprographic licences
Types of works licensed : Written works: Journalistic, literary, scientific or educational texts, photographs, other texts, musical scores. Visual works: Photos, other visual and plastic works
Types of institutions/sectors licensed : Educational institutions, Public authorities (Belgian, European, international, etc.), Institutions for public lending and Private sector


Digital Licences
Types of works licensed: None by Reprobel
Types of uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs,
document delivery and storage): Legal situation: Since the act of 22 May 2005, a legal license authorizes both the electronic storage (new art. 22, §1, 4°ter) and the public communication carried out by means of a closed transmission network (new art. 22, §1, 4°quater) for the purposes of illustrating the teaching or of scientific research (academic permission). This legal license awaits tariffs in order to be fully implemented. In the near future, electronic storage will also be permitted by law for private use (new art.22, §1, 5°) only thus not for one’s own internal professional use. The latter provision awaits a Royal decree to come into force.

Other Licences
Public Lending Rights : No


DISTRIBUTION
Title-specific distribution : No
Non title-specific distribution : Yes
Both title-specific distribution and non title-specific distribution : No
Full reporting : No
Sampling : No
Statistical surveys : Yes
Objective availability : Yes
Possibility to be copied : No


AGREEMENTS
Bilateral agreements type A with : Stichting Reprorecht (Netherlands), CFC (France), Copibec (Quebec), CEDRO (Spain), Kopinor (Norway), Luxorr (Luxembourg), DALRO (South Africa), CLA (United Kingdom), NLI (Ireland), Literar Mechana (Austria), CCC (USA), ProLiteris (Switzerland), NLI (Ireland), CAL (Australia), ICLA (Ireland), Copyrus (Russia), AIDRO (Italy), SIAE (Italy) and JAACC (Japan)
Bilateral agreements type B with : Copy-Dan (Denmark), HKRRLS (Hong-Kong & Macau), Fjölis (Iceland), CEMPRO (Mexico), JAMCOPY (Jamaica), KOPJAMALT (Malta), Cadra (Argentina), LITA (Slovakia), Repronig (Nigeria), HARR (Hungary) and MASA (Mauritius)

FINANCIAL DATA


Total amount collected for all licensing :
€ 24,964,124.00
Total amount collected for reproduction licensing :
€ 23,216,905.00
Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing :
€ 22,715,858.00
Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide :
€ 501,047.00
Total amount distributed to national rightsholders :
€ 22,196,032.52
Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs :
€ 3,942,160.30
Total amount distributed from all licensing :
€ 22,196,032.52

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