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Fairphone MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-02
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

FairPhone B.V. is a Dutch private limited company registered under KvK number 55901964, with its registered and headquarters address at Van Diemenstraat 200, 1013 CP Amsterdam; its legal notice identifies Raymond van Eck as CEO.1, 2, 3

Fairphone’s 2023 and 2024 annual reports describe Fairphone B.V. as a standalone entity represented by managing directors Raymond van Eck and Oscar Visser; the 2024 report records Visser’s CFO/managing-director appointment from 1 May 2024.1, 4

No public evidence identified of a Fairphone contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum of understanding, vendor record, or procurement relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Defense Forces, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli security body.4, 5, 6

Targeted reviews did not identify Fairphone in SIBAT’s public defence and homeland-security directory material, but this public-search result does not establish exclusion from non-public Israeli procurement records.5, 6

SIBAT is an Israeli Ministry of Defense body responsible for international defence cooperation and publishes defence-industry information and tenders.6

Public corporate, LEI, and public-investment records reviewed identify Fairphone’s entity, governance, and named 2023 financing participants, but do not identify a direct or indirect physical-goods, logistics, defence-directorship, or Israeli military/security-sector relationship involving Fairphone or its disclosed principals.1, 3, 7, 4, 5, 6, 8

The LEI record reports no direct or ultimate parent and gives “NATURAL_PERSONS” as the stated non-disclosure reason; it does not identify an ultimate owner, beneficial owner, ownership percentage, or controlling person.3

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Fairphone’s current Gen. 6 product material presents a consumer modular smartphone with standard Android-oriented security, wireless, repairability, user-replaceable-module, and operating-system features; Fairphone’s March 2026 announcement concerns an Android 16 update for that consumer product.9, 10

The reviewed product material does not describe a tactical, ruggedised, mil-spec, defence-grade, or Israel-security-force-specific Fairphone variant.9, 10

Fairphone’s software licence contains general export-control and prohibited-end-use terms, including restrictions concerning weapons-of-mass-destruction or missile end uses and certain military end uses in countries subject to United States arms embargoes.11

The licence does not name Israel, identify an Israeli military end user, or document an export-licence application or defence sale.11

No public evidence identified of a Fairphone tactical product line, Israeli security-force sale, end-user certificate, or export-licence application for Israeli military or security end users.4, 9, 11, 10

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified that Fairphone equipment, vehicles, services, or machinery were used for settlement construction, the separation barrier, demolitions, checkpoints, military installations, detention facilities, or other infrastructure in occupied territory.4, 5, 6

No public evidence identified of Fairphone construction, engineering, maintenance, or end-use-monitoring contracts connected to such facilities.4, 5, 6

Fairphone’s reviewed activity concerns consumer electronics, including smartphones, audio products, accessories, and spare parts, rather than heavy machinery or construction activity.12

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

Fairphone’s 2024 supply-chain disclosure maps supplier tiers, manufacturing locations, components, and products, while cautioning that inclusion does not establish a direct Fairphone relationship with every listed manufacturer.13, 14

Fairphone’s public source-map material gives the same caution about disclosed supply-chain entities and their relationship to Fairphone.14

The reviewed 2024 supplier disclosure contains no textual reference to “Israel” or “Israeli,” while not ruling out undisclosed upstream suppliers, brokers, secondary-market transfers, or suppliers’ separate customers.13

No public evidence identified of Fairphone supplying components, sub-systems, raw materials, manufacturing services, or technology to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime.4, 13, 14

No public evidence identified of Fairphone–Israeli-defence-prime joint development, co-production, technology transfer, or licensed manufacturing.13, 14

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Fairphone providing transport, telecommunications, facilities, waste, fuel, catering, freight forwarding, port handling, military cargo, or other sustainment services to Israeli military or security installations.4, 5, 6

Fairphone’s current direct online-shop return policy, effective 18 August 2026, lists continental European sales and delivery territories and does not include Israel.15

Fairphone’s current sales terms require delivery to an address within the defined Covered Territory and define an authorised reseller as one expressly permitted by Fairphone to sell within that territory.16

Fairphone offers a general route for prospective resellers, operators, and distributors, but the reviewed corporate material does not name an Israeli, West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights partner; the general programme is not evidence of an Israel-specific appointment.16

A 2014 Fairphone Community Forum post records a user’s account of delivery to family in France followed by private carriage to Israel; this pre-2020 user statement is not a corporate shipping record, reseller appointment, import declaration, or evidence of Fairphone-authorised distribution, and its present status is unknown.17

A 2 June 2016 Fairphone Community Forum user post describes owning a Fairphone 1U and proposes an Israeli user group; this pre-2020 user statement is not corporate evidence of distribution or sale, and its continuing status is unknown.18

Two third-party marketplace listings accessed on 2 September 2026 advertised Fairphone 5 or Gen. 6 handsets for delivery to Israel; the listings state that Desertcart handles delivery, customs, and support, and the Gen. 6 listing displays “Sold by Amazon Israel.”19, 20

Those marketplace representations are not Fairphone disclosures, procurement records, distributor appointments, or end-user records; they do not establish Fairphone-authorised distribution, direct sale by Fairphone, a contract with an Israeli state body, or military end use.15, 16, 19, 20

No authoritative public reseller list, customs record, or Fairphone-authorised distributor record for Israel, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights was identified in the reviewed material.15, 16, 17, 19, 20

The current policy and sales terms do not resolve historic third-party resale, private import, travel carriage, secondary-market routes, or unauthorised distribution into Israel or occupied territory.15, 16, 17, 19, 20

No public evidence identified of an authorised Israeli or occupied-territory channel or of a direct Fairphone contractual relationship for such a channel.15, 16, 17, 19, 20

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified that Fairphone is a prime contractor, licensed manufacturer, or verified sub-system supplier for Israeli weapons, munitions, missiles, drones, armoured vehicles, aircraft, naval systems, missile-defence systems, or other strategic-defence platforms.4, 9, 6

No public evidence identified of Fairphone manufacturing lethal systems, munitions, precursor materials, targeting systems, weapons-integration software, or software designed to make targeting decisions or generate weapons effects.13, 9, 11, 6

The reviewed product information instead describes consumer-device and operating-system functionality.9, 11, 10

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of a grant, refusal, denial, suspension, revocation, enforcement action, sanctions investigation, court challenge, or judicial review concerning Fairphone defence exports to Israeli military or security end users.4, 5, 11, 6

The available public materials do not include a Fairphone-specific Israeli vendor record, tender, invoice, purchase order, customs record, export-licence register entry, or foreign-military-sales record.5, 6, 15

The absence of those records in this bounded review does not rule out non-public, indirect, or unauthorised procurement channels.13, 15, 16

No authoritative Israeli customs data, authorised-reseller contract, IMOD vendor record, tender document, purchase order, or export-control filing was located that could resolve indirect, private-import, secondary-market, or non-public procurement routes.5, 6, 15, 16

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

No public evidence identified in the bounded review of an organised boycott, divestment, exclusion, or corporate-response campaign specifically alleging Fairphone defence-sector activity involving Israel or occupied territory.1, 4

The supplied deterministic full-text pre-scan found no Fairphone mention in the specified OHCHR settlement-database editions, A/HRC/59/23, PAX, Al-Haq, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, BankTrack, BDS, KLP, and Who Profits documents; this is document-scoped and does not establish absence from live databases or all civil-society material.1

Fairphone’s 2024 annual report describes Fairphone B.V. as a standalone entity represented by managing directors Raymond van Eck and Oscar Visser.1

The 2024 annual report records four Supervisory Board appointments on 26 January 2025: Astrid Rauchfuss, Elfrieke van Galen, Gustavo Burnier, and Besma Kraiem; Josephine de Zwaan stepped down following the appointments.1, 21

Fairphone’s current team page identifies van Eck as CEO, Visser as CFO, Chandler Hatton as CTO, Monique Lempers as CIO, Rutger Sneep as CCO, Ellie Lang as Director of People and Culture, and Miquel Ballester as a co-founder.7

The February 2025 appointment announcement describes Rauchfuss’s background in technology and telecommunications, van Galen’s in law and service/logistics, Burnier’s in go-to-market and product innovation, and Kraiem’s in telecommunications technology; it does not identify Israeli defence-sector, IDF, settlement, or Israeli state-security affiliations.21

No public evidence identified in the bounded live search of a corporate directorship, investment vehicle, foundation, regulatory record, Israeli defence-prime relationship, military-supplier relationship, security-contractor relationship, or military-directed physical-goods activity involving Oscar Visser; the reviewed primary corporate materials identify him as Fairphone CFO and managing director from 1 May 2024, and Fairphone’s April 2026 results release continues to identify him as CFO.1, 7, 4, 12

No public evidence identified in the bounded live search of the specified Israeli defence, military-supplier, security-contractor, or military-directed physical-goods connections involving Miquel Ballester Ballester Salvá; Fairphone identifies Miquel as a co-founder, its June 2025 EU declaration identifies him as Head of Product, and Waag describes him as a Fairphone co-founder and Product & Resource Efficiency Manager.7, 22, 23

No public evidence identified in the bounded live search of the specified Israeli defence, military-supplier, security-contractor, or military-directed physical-goods connections involving Chandler Hatton; Fairphone identifies Hatton as CTO, its 2024 annual report dates the appointment to 1 November 2024, and an INSEAD 2019 profile describes prior work in renewable energy, infrastructure, transport, and manufacturing without identifying an Israeli defence-sector affiliation.1, 7, 24

No public evidence identified in the bounded live search of the specified Israeli defence, military-supplier, security-contractor, or military-directed physical-goods connections involving Ellie Lang; Fairphone identifies Lang as Director of People and Culture and records her appointment to the people-and-culture role on 1 October 2024.1, 7

No public evidence identified in the bounded live search of the specified Israeli defence, military-supplier, security-contractor, or military-directed physical-goods connections involving Monique Lempers; Fairphone identifies Lempers as CIO, while a June 2026 UN Global Compact Network Netherlands announcement identifies her as Fairphone’s Chief Impact Officer and describes sustainability, ethical-sourcing, and supply-chain roles rather than a defence or security relationship.7, 25

No public evidence identified in the bounded live search of the specified Israeli defence, military-supplier, security-contractor, or military-directed physical-goods connections involving Rutger Sneep; Fairphone identifies Sneep as CCO and the 2024 annual report dates that appointment to 1 March 2024.1, 7

These person-specific results are necessarily public-record and name-search bounded; they do not resolve undisclosed personal investments, private donations, family vehicles, foundation accounts, political contributions, or non-public records.1, 3, 7, 4

Fairphone’s 2023 funding announcement identified a €49 million consortium led by Invest-NL, ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund, and Quadia’s Regenero Impact Fund, with DALHAP, DOEN Participaties, and PDENH also participating.8

Invest-NL records a €20 million share investment in Fairphone within that funding round.26

That announcement reported partial exits by PYMWYMIC and more than 1,000 crowdfunders, but neither it nor the Invest-NL record provides current ownership percentages, voting rights, board-control rights, or a shareholder holding of 10% or more.8, 26

Fairphone’s 2023 annual report records that Fairphone and two unnamed shareholders executed a €4 million interest-bearing convertible-loan agreement on 26 April 2024, with €2.6 million drawn immediately; the report does not identify those shareholders or the loan’s conversion allocation.4

The reviewed public materials do not disclose a current cap table, beneficial owners, voting rights, conversion rights, or shareholders holding at least 10%, and the identified investors should not be treated as controlling principals without such evidence.3, 4, 8, 26

Fairphone’s 2024 annual report contains no reference to Israel and does not provide a subsidiary listing, which is a document-scoped observation only.1

Neither the reviewed annual reports nor the retrieved public registry display identifies subsidiaries, Israeli branches, franchisees, licensees, distributors, or an Israeli/occupied-territory channel; this is source-scoped and does not prove that no such relationship exists.1, 4, 27

No new primary document, court filing, parliamentary record, UN record, or NGO investigation was located in the bounded review that establishes Fairphone’s supply to Israeli defence/security entities, operations in occupied territory, or a principal’s military-channel act.1, 4, 5, 6

No relevant Fairphone military or security activity was identified in the reviewed material; consequently, no continuation finding can be made after 19 July 2024 or after November 2024.1, 4, 19, 20

Footnotes

  1. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Fairphone_BV_-_Annual-report-2024-fully-signed-ryq3tdbpptg8mp4hr439b3cu6e.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16

  2. https://www.fairphone.com/legal/impressum ↩

  3. https://lei.bloomberg.com/leis/view/724500CMLPSLXBZSUL67 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Fairphone-BV-Annual-report-2023.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18

  5. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/OurServices/Pages/%E2%80%8BDefense%20and%20HLS%20directory.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  6. https://www.mod.gov.il/en/departments/sibat-international-defense-cooperation ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  7. https://www.fairphone.com/team ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  8. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Impact-investor-consortium-invests-E49-million-in-Fairphone.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  9. https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  10. https://shop.fairphone.com/press/pdf/Fairphone%20Announces%20Android%2016%20for%20the%20Gen.%206.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://www.fairphone.com/fr/legal/fairphone-os-end-user-license-agreement ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  12. https://www.fairphone.com/press/pdf/Fairphone%27s%20Smartphone%20Shipments%20Surged%20by%2042%25%20in%202025%20-%20Despite%20Shrinking%20Global%20Smartphone%20Market.pdf ↩ ↩2

  13. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SCE-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  14. https://www.fairphone.com/hub/en/impact/source-map-transparency/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://www.fairphone.pro/legal/return-policy ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  16. https://www.fairphone.com/legal/terms-and-conditions-of-sale-fairphone ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  17. https://forum.fairphone.com/t/is-there-a-delivery-to-israel/2393 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. https://forum.fairphone.com/t/is-there-a-delivery-to-israel/2393/6 ↩

  19. https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/740029481-gen-6-modular-android-smartphone-8gb-256gb-50mp-ai-camera ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  20. https://www.desertcart.co.il/products/691604395-5-5g-gsm-unlocked-international-version-256gb-8gb-ram-dual ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  21. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Fairphone-welcomes-new-Supervisory-Board-members-for-its-next-growth-phase-1.pdf ↩ ↩2

  22. https://waag.org/en/miquel-ballester/ ↩

  23. https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250615_FP6_EU-Declaration-of-Conformity-DoC.pdf ↩

  24. https://intheknow.insead.edu/sites/contenthub/files/PDF/INSEAD%20GEMBA%202019%20class%20profile.pdf ↩

  25. https://www.unglobalcompact.nl/news/un-global-compact-nl-appoints-monique-lempers-fair ↩

  26. https://www.invest-nl.nl/en/impact/portfolio/fairphone ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  27. https://companyinfo.nl/organisatieprofiel/overige-diensten-op-het-gebied-van-informatietechnologie-en-computer/fairphone-b-v-amsterdam-55901964-000025508210 ↩