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 announcements of 5 May 2021 updating the New Industrial Strategy proposed in 2020, the European Commission has further indicated that it will rely fairly heavily on business to ship on the major challenges confronted by our economies and societies in Europe. This is particularly the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and international competitiveness, in addition to the necessity to overcome the crisis provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The EU Recovery and Resilience Plan launched in Spring 2021 is essentially building on the aptitude of European business to design and produce the constructing blocks of the twin green and digital transition. At the same time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that does not at all times assist the freedom and flexibility wanted for firms to grow and compete globally.
The European know-how industries, and specifically our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a very lengthy time thought of the enhancement of their world competitiveness inside the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of vitality effectivity and ecolabel rules. In parallel, digitalisation has offered elevated alternatives and brought new challenges, including debates on the appropriate regulatory level (sharing of commercial information, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever extra fierce international competitors, require that public authorities and business in the EU work increasingly more carefully to design and deploy strategies that reinforce our competitiveness and our contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This would be the subject of the initial debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which is in a position to bring collectively key coverage makers from the three EU coverage institutions in charge of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements enjoyed, and challenges still confronted, by these three key sectors of industry.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama across Europe, and indeed the whole world, turns into ever more complex, the burden on business only will increase. It therefore falls to sector particular commerce organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to determine and advise on those technical and policy points most relevant to their respective sectors. In our particular arena, that relates, of course, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump associated equipment – a huge and necessary subset of industry, given the width and breadth of pump applications.
Against this backdrop, one of many main considerations when figuring out the core themes for the joint convention was to keep up a direct reference to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Within this focus, the three associations intend to focus on how, along with the significance for corporations to deal with technical features impacting their daily enterprise operations, they consider the positive role of business in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all the classes may have a technical theme matching probably the most appropriate UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission along with technical consultants from industry and/or analysis institutes, they’ll every be reflective of the present legislative terrain, because it relates to pumps and pumping techniques in 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 supplies and substances of concern (Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goal no. 6: Clean Water and Sanitation)
The regulatory and legislative panorama throughout Europe is turning into increasingly complicated, and business, in all its guises, must be aware and ready for what is coming. By participating with these trade organisations that represent your best pursuits, you can keep abreast of all the compliance developments as they affect your corporation and the areas in which you operate.
เกจวัดco2 ’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Joint Conference will happen in Brussels on 9–11 May 2022 at the NH Collection Grand Sablon, Rue Bodenbroek – Bodenbroekstraat, 2, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.
The full programme and registration process can be found right here.
Europump is the European Association of Pump Manufacturers. Established in 1960, it represents 16 National Associations. Europump members represent more than 450 companies with a collective production value of greater than €10 billion and an employee base of one hundred 000 individuals across Europe.
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