Sustainability and decarbonisation: how can the EU’s industrial policy support industry’s efforts?

Ahead of its Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with CEIR and Pneurop in Brussels this May, Europump president Vanni Vignoli looks at the EU’s roadmap for industrial support.
Vanni Vignoli, president of Europump.
Following pressure gauge ด้าน ดูด of 5 May 2021 updating the New Industrial Strategy proposed in 2020, the European Commission has additional indicated that it will rely fairly closely on industry to ship on the major challenges confronted by our economies and societies in Europe. This is especially the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and international competitiveness, in addition to the necessity 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 aptitude of European industry to design and produce the building blocks of the dual green and digital transition. At the same time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that does not at all times support the liberty and flexibility wanted for companies to grow and compete globally.
The European expertise industries, and specifically our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a really long time thought of the enhancement of their world competitiveness throughout the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of power efficiency and ecolabel laws. In parallel, digitalisation has supplied increased opportunities and brought new challenges, including debates on the suitable regulatory stage (sharing of business data, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever more fierce worldwide competition, require that public authorities and industry in the EU work more and more extra intently to design and deploy strategies 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 will bring collectively key policy makers from the three EU coverage establishments in cost of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements loved, and challenges nonetheless faced, by these three key sectors of industry.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory landscape throughout Europe, and indeed the whole world, becomes ever extra complex, the burden on business solely will increase. It subsequently falls to sector particular commerce organisations, such as Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to establish and advise on these technical and policy issues most related to their respective sectors. In our explicit area, that relates, of course, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump associated equipment – an enormous and essential subset of trade, given the width and breadth of pump purposes.
Against this backdrop, one of the major concerns when determining the core themes for the joint conference was to keep up a direct reference to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Within this focus, the three associations intend to highlight how, together with the importance for companies to deal with technical features impacting their day by day business operations, they consider the constructive position of business in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the periods will have a technical theme matching the most appropriate UN SDG, and with illustration from the European Commission along with technical consultants from trade and/or analysis institutes, they may each be reflective of the present legislative terrain, because it pertains to pumps and pumping methods within the following key areas:
Circular Economy & Eco-design (Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goal no. 12: Responsible Consumption and Production)
Industry’s Digital Transformation and Innovation (Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goal no. 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure)
The restriction of use of materials and substances of concern (Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goal no. 6: Clean Water and Sanitation)
The regulatory and legislative panorama throughout Europe is becoming increasingly complicated, and business, in all its guises, must be conscious and prepared for what’s coming. By partaking with these trade organisations that characterize your greatest pursuits, you’ll have the ability to maintain abreast of all of the compliance developments as they have an result on your small business and the areas in which you use.
Europump’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Joint Conference will happen in Brussels on 9–11 May 2022 on the NH Collection Grand Sablon, Rue Bodenbroek – Bodenbroekstraat, 2, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.
The full programme and registration course of can be found here.
Europump is the European Association of Pump Manufacturers. Established in 1960, it represents sixteen National Associations. Europump members represent greater than 450 companies with a collective manufacturing value of more than €10 billion and an worker base of one hundred 000 folks throughout Europe.
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