FranceThe EUROPEAN FRANCHISE FEDERATION was founded in 1972, in France, as a not-for-profit association to promote, defend and speak for the franchise industry operating in Europe. The EFF is recognised, notalby by the European Institutions, as the single authority in Europe which has as its mission to define the essential elements that constitute proper & ethical franchising. On this basis it has constituted a community of national franchise associations that share this view. It is with this mission that the EFF's community commits itself to uphold and promote the European Code of Ethics for Franchising.
In 1972, its founding members were the French Franchise Federation (FFF), the Italian Franchise Association (Assofranchising/AIF), the Belgian Franchise Federation (FBF-BFF) and the Netherlands Franchise Association (NFV).The franchiser members of each of these founding assocations were accutely conscious:
• that the development of the franchise industry in Europe would be subject to instituional and regulatory framework of the EU, in the context of its Single Market,
• that to enhance and protect its development, the industry had to protect itself with a framework of self-defined principles of ethics => European Code of Ethics for Franchising,
• that the Federation’s member Associations had to build themselves and their reputation on the promotion of the principles of the Code as well as set up significant accreditation procedures for their own franchise company membership which would promote good and ethically-conscious franchises