Lobby organisation
Alliance for the Freedom of Car Repair
Business group · Transport & automotive · HQ: Belgium · website · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, Alliance for the Freedom of Car Repair appears in 13 declared MEP meetings (13 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.
In their own words
“Created in 1997, the AFCAR Alliance speaks on behalf of a wide range of stakeholders representing motoring consumers, the leasing and rental industry, and a major part of the automotive aftermarket ranging from test equipment and diagnostic tool manufacturers, parts wholesalers, data publishers as well as independent and authorised repairers (please find a more detailed description at the end of this paper).”
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“Our aim is to promote free competition and fair access to technical information and more generally to all features that allow the wider "Automobile use" market operators, employing 4 million people in over 500.000 companies, to offer competitive repair and maintenance services to the 285 million motoring consumers and duty vehicles operators in the EU. Together, our SMEs constitute a dedicated supply chain, which ensures the competitiveness and dynamism of the automotive industry sector as a whole. Our members are an integral part of the European economy.”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 13 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2024–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (11 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.
Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.
The MEPs they meet most
The 13 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Feb 2026 | Marina Kaljurand | Digital Omnibus |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Tiemo Wölken | Data Omnibus |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Aura Salla | Digital Omnibus, the Data Act |
| 20 Nov 2025 | Andrea Wechsler | Data Act |
| 23 Apr 2025 | Ana Vasconcelos | Automotive Plan |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Majdouline Sbai | Automotive Industry |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Jan-Christoph Oetjen | General exchange on the automotive aftermarket |
| 27 Feb 2025 | Nikolina Brnjac | Essential role of the automotive aftermarket in supporting Europe’s competitiveness, innovation, and sustainability |
| 13 Feb 2025 | Mohammed Chahim | Automotive Aftermarket |
| 3 Feb 2025 | Pascal Canfin | End-of-life of vehicles Regulation & Automotive Strategic Dialogue |
| 15 Jan 2025 | Pierfrancesco Maran | End of life vehicles |
| 14 Jan 2025 | Jens Gieseke | Altfahrzeuge-Verordnung |
| 4 Dec 2024 | Angelika Winzig | Meeting with a representative of the Alliance for the Freedom of Car Repair (AFCAR) |
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