Registered Office AFEMS Rue Th. De Cuyper, 100 B-1200 Brussels Country Belgium

Secretariat AFEMS Via Flaminia 441 I-00196 Rome Country Italy Phone +39.06.322.0016 Fax +39.06.322.0018

Objectives

AFEMS was set up as a non-profit making organization, designed to establish links of cooperation with international decision-making bodies, to be available to display the interests of its members, and also to tackle our industry's challenges head-on in a rapidly changing business environment. The primary concern of AFEMS is for its members. The members have diverse, individual needs, but the members’ community has a great deal in common, too. AFEMS specific objectives are:

• To safeguard the collective interests of its member firms;
  
• To provide a focus for gathering and exchanging information on scientific, technical, institutional, environmental and standardization issues relating to sporting ammunition, its component parts and related industries;
  
• To establish working groups comprising experts from European industry, in order to study major problems and propose solutions;
  
• To cooperate with the European Commission during relevant Directive preparatory stages, by being available to give the European Commission specific information and assisting it to understand our industry's viewpoint;
  
• To prepare libraries of information for display to EU Members of Parliament on request, with relevant proposals for Directives presented by the European Commission;
  
• To monitor, via the CEFIC, the work of the United Nations Organization's specialist working groups – for instance, The Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods;
  
• To co-operate with CEN (European Committee for Standardization) and ISO (International Standards Organization) as standards are established to govern our sector;
  
• To establish and maintain working relations with the main European non-governmental organizations safeguarding and developing hunting and sport shooting;
  
• To foster compatibility between the industry's requirements and the expectations of environmental protection bodies;
  
• To actively promote the understanding of safety rules, mutual respect, dialogue and shared goals between the hunting and sport shooting world, the decision-making bodies and the public at large; to work together to improve all parties' quality of life and to maximize economic benefits;
  
• To draft and publish objective and constructive information representing our industry's point of view;
  
• To have qualified spokespersons and high-quality literature, allowing us to clarify our sector's concerns to decision-making bodies and the general public.