REPROBEL

Place de Brouckère 12 De Brouckèreplein
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Phone:  +32 2 551 03 24
Fax: +32 2 551 08 85
e-mail: reprobel@reprobel.be
Web: http://www.reprobel.be

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

Key representatives:
Legal & International Affairs Alexander Wybo awybo@reprobel.be




HISTORY OF ORGANISATION
History Summary:
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
Total number of Author Representatives: 7
Total number of Publisher Representatives: 7
How are Board Members elected: 7 members are designated by the authors’ collecting societies and 7 by the publishers’ collecting societies
Remarks about Board:


Members:
Total Number of Member Associations: 15
Total Publishers' associations: 8
Total Creators' (authors and visual artists) Associations: 8
Total Rights holders represented:
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, KVBKB/ARAPB, SABAM, SACD,SCAM, SOFAM and VEWA
Publishers’ societies : COPIEBEL, COPIEPRESSE, REPROCOPY, REPRO PP, REPROPRESS, SEMU, RUIT and SABAM

DATES OF FINANCIAL YEAR  January 1 - December 31

MODEL OF RRO OPERATION
Type of National legislation:
Civil law

Legal licence
Legal system: Equipment levy and Operator's fee
Other licensing system:
Mandating rights holders:

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 uses licensed (including, where applicable, course packs, document delivery) :
Types of institutions/sectors licensed: Educational institutions, Public authorities (Belgian, European, international, etc.), Institutions for public lending and Private sector
Pilot Projects:

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.
Types of institutions/sectors licensed:
Pilot Projects:

Other Licences
Public Lending Rights
Other areas of licensing
None

DISTRIBUTION
Outline of Distribution plan and methodology used:
Distribution methods: Non title-specific distribution, Statistical surveys, Objective availability, possiblity to be copied
Other distribution method:

AGREEMENTS
Number of Bilateral agreements type A: 14
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) and SIAE (Italy)
Number of Bilateral agreements type B:11
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)
Other agreements with RROs:

FINANCIAL DATA

Total amount collected for all licensing
EUR 26,002,760.69

Total amount collected for reproduction licensing
EUR 24,311,136.69

Total amount collected nationally for reproduction licensing
EUR 23,732,977.00

Total amount received for licensing from other RROs world-wide
EUR 636,803.73

Total amount distributed from all licensing
EUR 25,690,138.82

Total amount distributed to national rightsholders
EUR 24,080,642.86

Total Amount distributed to foreign RROs
EUR 1,609,495.96