Sustainability and decarbonisation: how can the EU’s industrial coverage assist industry’s efforts?

Ahead of its Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with CEIR and Pneurop in Brussels this May, Europump president Vanni Vignoli looks on the EU’s roadmap for industrial support.
Vanni Vignoli, president of Europump.
Following its bulletins of 5 May 2021 updating the New Industrial Strategy proposed in 2020, the European Commission has additional indicated that it will rely quite heavily on business to ship on the main challenges faced by our economies and societies in Europe. This is particularly the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and world competitiveness, as properly as the want to overcome the disaster provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The EU Recovery and Resilience Plan launched in Spring 2021 is basically building on the capability of European trade to design and produce the constructing blocks of the dual green and digital transition. At the same time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that does not all the time support the freedom and suppleness needed for corporations to grow and compete globally.
The European expertise industries, and in particular our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a long time thought-about the enhancement of their international competitiveness inside the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of energy efficiency and ecolabel rules. In parallel, digitalisation has supplied elevated alternatives and introduced new challenges, including debates on the appropriate regulatory level (sharing of commercial information, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever more fierce worldwide competitors, require that public authorities and trade in the EU work increasingly extra carefully to design and deploy methods that reinforce our competitiveness and our contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This would be the topic of the preliminary debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which can convey collectively key policy makers from the three EU policy establishments in charge of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements loved, and challenges still faced, by these three key sectors of business.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues

As the regulatory landscape across Europe, and indeed the entire world, becomes ever extra complicated, the burden on business only will increase. It therefore falls to sector particular commerce organisations, corresponding to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to establish and advise on those technical and policy points most related to their respective sectors. In our specific area, that relates, after all, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump associated equipment – a huge and important subset of industry, given the width and breadth of pump functions.
Against this backdrop, one of the primary considerations when figuring out the core themes for the joint convention was to take care of a direct reference to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Within pressure gauge 10 bar , the three associations intend to spotlight how, together with the significance for firms to deal with technical aspects impacting their daily business operations, they consider the positive position of trade in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the periods could have a technical theme matching probably the most applicable UN SDG, and with illustration from the European Commission together with technical consultants from trade and/or analysis institutes, they will each be reflective of the present legislative terrain, because it relates to pumps and pumping systems in the following key areas:
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