Due to on the new Open Scope categories, elections for the Board of Trustees were held at Stiftung EAR in October and November 2019. Anja Olsok from Bitkom was elected as chairwoman for product areas 5 and 6. She can therefore continue to represent the industry and manufacturers’ interests in the EAR Advisory Board. Many thanks for your support! Here are the complete election results:
Product area 2 – Display screens, monitors and devices with a screen area of over 100cm²
Tobias Thiedemann, HP Deutschland GmbH
Product area 3 – Lamps
Jörn Krieger, Radium Lampenwerk GmbH
Product area 4 - Appliances where at least one of the external dimensions exceeds 50 centimeters (large appliances)
Oliver Friedrichs, vere e.V.
Product area 5 - Appliances where none of the external dimensions exceeds 50 centimeters (small appliances)
Anja Olsok, Bitkom e.V.
Product area 6 - Small appliances for information and telecommunication technology where none of the external dimensions exceeds 50 centimeters
Anja Olsok, Bitkom e.V.
Background: The Advisory Board has a supervisory and advisory function with respect to Stiftung EAR. During the past six years on the Advisory Board, Anja Olsok, member of the executive board of Bitkom e.V., previously represented the interests of the companies in former product area 3, "Information and telecommunications technology equipment". Due to Open Scope and the transition to the new types of equipment, a new election was necessary.