Ahead of its Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with CEIR and Pneurop in Brussels this May, Europump president Vanni Vignoli appears at the EU’s roadmap for industrial assist.
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’s going to 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 world 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 capability of European trade to design and produce the constructing blocks of the dual green and digital transition. At the identical time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that doesn’t at all times help the freedom and suppleness wanted for firms to develop and compete globally.
pressure gauge , and particularly our pumps, compressors, faucets and valves sectors, have for an extended time considered the enhancement of their world competitiveness inside the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of energy efficiency and ecolabel laws. In parallel, digitalisation has provided increased alternatives and brought new challenges, including debates on the appropriate regulatory degree (sharing of commercial data, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever more fierce international competitors, 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 will be the topic of the preliminary debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which can convey together key policy makers from the three EU coverage establishments in management of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements loved, and challenges nonetheless faced, by these three key sectors of business.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama across Europe, and certainly the entire world, becomes ever extra complex, the burden on trade only increases. It subsequently falls to sector specific commerce organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to identify and advise on those technical and policy points most related to their respective sectors. In our particular area, that relates, of course, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump related gear – a huge and essential subset of trade, given the width and breadth of pump purposes.
Against this backdrop, one of the primary concerns when determining 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 this focus, the three associations intend to spotlight how, together with the significance for corporations to deal with technical elements impacting their day by day business operations, they think about the positive position of business in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all the classes will have a technical theme matching the most acceptable UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission together with technical consultants from industry and/or research institutes, they’ll each be reflective of the current legislative terrain, because it pertains to pumps and pumping techniques 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 landscape across Europe is becoming increasingly complex, and trade, in all its guises, must be aware and ready for what’s coming. By participating with these commerce organisations that represent your finest pursuits, you probably can hold abreast of all the compliance developments as they have an effect on your business and the areas by which you use.
Europump’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 course of are available 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 manufacturing value of greater than €10 billion and an worker base of a hundred 000 people throughout Europe.
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