1. Dear European providers of facilities and facility services, bringFM!’s mission is to promote the social and economical benefits
of including providers of facilities and facility services in achieving
On May 16th 2012 bringFM!, the European Union Centre for Facility smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Being successful in today’s
Management based in Brussels, was founded. 25 Years after its global market starts with developing a strong pan-European base
European introduction EU Facility Management (FM) produces 7% and creating convergence with horizontal and vertical peers.
of GDP. FM is the largest business service and despite economic Together with the European Union, business services peers and built
crisis our sector is growing. With the publication of the EN15221 our environment stakeholders, we aim to stimulate policies that facilitate
horizontal profession has matured and this has enabled us to be and integrate European people, places and processes. We strengthen
actively engaged with the European Union. Now is the time to take the competitiveness of your organisation and help you facilitate your
responsibility and make our voice heard in Brussels on behalf of clients, costumers and end-users.
European providers of facilities and facility services. We invite you to become a member of bringFM! to liberate the power of
European providers of facilities and facility services.
bringFM! organizes issue-driven collaboration and will represent
the interest of the sector towards EU politicians and policy makers,
it serves as a centre of knowledge for its members, helps the public
sector implement the EN15221, develops the FMIndex.eu cooperative
and starts the EUFM Foundation and EUFM Investment Trust. Jos Duchamps, Chairman

2. The aims of the
association are ...
a. Supporting European providers of facilities and facility
services, defined as ‘facility products’ in EN15221, to
enforce their competitive strength and growth by:
■ Providing them in a proactive way with information
about development of EU policy in the area of:
Work and working environment
Public procurement and outsourcing
Internal market
Competitive strength
Productivity and competences
Real estate and cities
Sustainability and CSR
Labour legislation
Digital information
Business services
■ Enabling them to exercise influence on that policy;
■ Representing them in an objective and non-obtrusive
way at the EU institutes with the aim of adjusting that
policy in the desired way;
b. Implementing the EN15221 norm series by supporting the
European public sector;
c. Founding a FMIndex.eu cooperative which has accrediting
powers;
d. Setting up a EUFM Foundation and EUFM Investment funds.
The association aspires
to achieve its aims by:
a. Working together pro-actively with the European
Commission, members of the European Parliament and
other relevant EU organisations, and also with similar
associations and by taking part in their call for ‘proposals’,
‘consultations’, ‘hearings’, seminars, etc.
b. Offering online and offline services:
■ Organising meetings with the organisations mentioned
under a.
■ Organising study groups and round tables.
■ Publishing whitepapers, websites, weblogs and online
newsletters
■ Publishing a 6-monthly magazine about the work of the
association and its members
■ Offering training courses, workshops and seminars.
c. Using all other legal means which are considered useful or
necessary to achieve the intended aims.

3. The importance of the EU is ever increasing. There are around 15,000 bringFM! will also proactively set the EU-agenda. We will strive for
lobbyists in Brussels but the European FM sector is not adequately changes in regulation where it is outdate or constraining. For our first
represented. Currently, there is no organisation that defends the year, the focus lies on:
common interest of the FM sector. bringFM! is about to change that. 1. Connecting FMIS, CAFM, BIM and NWoW with the Digital Agenda
2. Public procurement and the EN15221, DBFMO and FM
To this end bringFM! will raise awareness with EU policymakers to outsourcing
the importance of the sector, monitor relevant policy developments 3. Internal Market, Service Directive, Competitiveness and growth
and voice the position of the sector on new EU initiatives. We have 4. Real estate, architecture, cities, workspace and workplace
established our headquarters in the European area in Brussels. In order 5. Sustainability, cleantech, CSR and fair labour markets.
to achieve its goals, bringFM! will act reactive and proactive.
Through this dual approach we aim to contribute to smart regulation that
bringFM! will react by identifying relevant policy developments strengthens the competitiveness of the European FM sector.
and alerting its members of the impact of changes in the regulatory
framework. We will facilitate our members in drafting sector positions. The secretariat of bringFM! is run by the public affairs consultancy
We then will defend these positions by disseminating position papers, Bureau Brussels. Their expertise in the field of public affairs will ensure
taking part in consultations and hearings, and organising events. effective and efficient communication towards policymakers.
bringFM! organises an annual general meeting in combination with
a public conference presenting its objectives and task force results.
bringFM! organises itself on the basis of community management
principles focused on interaction. An Advisory Council will be made of
country representatives and members from peer organisations. The
Advisory Council will monitor the activities of bringFM! and act as a
sounding board. bringFM! will have two websites (www.eucfm.org and
www.fmindex.eu), a Wordpress weblog, LinkedIn Group, Twitter account,
monthly online newsletter and a six monthly magazine.
Organisational structure
Members Reader-members
(legal persons) (natural/legal persons - subscribers)
GENERAL MEETING
Board of Directors (executives) Advisory Council
Jos Duchamps Ian Fielder
Fred Kloet Rinus Vader Country Peer
Lodewijk Buschkens Michael May representatives organisations
Josef Tesarik Richard Harris

4. Membership
Members are Europe-based providers of facilities and/or facility services in the fields of space, infrastructure, people and organisation as
defined in EN15221 and registered with a European chamber of commerce. Members can come from (examples only):
catering furniture multi-service
cleaning hospitality procurement
construction human resources real estate
consultancy integrated FM security
document management maintenance software
Membership types and annual fees are based on organisation size:
Individuals are offered a reader-membership (€ 75 per year) without
< 10 FTE, € 500 250 < 1.000 FTE, € 7.500 voting rights. Reader-members are entitled to discounts on products
10 < 100 FTE, € 2.500 1.000 < 10.000 FTE, € 15.000 and services. The European Union Centre for Facility Management is a
not-for-profit association focussed on the interests of the European
100 < 250 FTE, € 5.000 10.000+ FTE, € 30.000
FM sector.
The centre will be developed following these steps:
1. July: select council members and start membership campaign
2. September: General Meeting and strategy
3. January 1, 2013: start delivery membership services.
Join us in liberating the power of European providers of facilities and facility services. Download a copy of our constitution and become member.
By joining now you can help develop our strategy, participate in our 2012 activities in Brussels and receive 18 months of services for the price of one year.
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