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 seems on the EU’s roadmap for industrial help.
Vanni Vignoli, president of Europump.
Following its announcements of 5 May 2021 updating the New Industrial Strategy proposed in 2020, the European Commission has additional indicated that it’s going to rely quite heavily on industry to deliver on the main challenges faced by our economies and societies in Europe. This is particularly the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and international competitiveness, as well as the need to overcome the crisis provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The EU Recovery and Resilience Plan launched in Spring 2021 is basically constructing on the aptitude of European trade to design and produce the building blocks of the twin green and digital transition. At the same time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that doesn’t all the time support the liberty and suppleness wanted for corporations to develop and compete globally.
The European expertise industries, and in particular our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a protracted time considered the enhancement of their international competitiveness inside the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of power efficiency and ecolabel laws. In parallel, digitalisation has offered elevated opportunities and brought new challenges, including debates on the appropriate regulatory stage (sharing of commercial data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever extra fierce international competition, require that public authorities and business in the EU work more and more more closely to design and deploy methods that reinforce our competitiveness and our contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This will be the subject of the initial debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which is able to deliver together key coverage makers from the three EU policy institutions in charge of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements loved, and challenges nonetheless faced, by these three key sectors of business.
เกจแรงดันน้ำ and Policy Issues
As the regulatory landscape throughout Europe, and certainly the entire world, becomes ever extra complex, the burden on trade solely will increase. It due to this fact falls to sector specific commerce organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to identify and advise on these technical and policy points most related to their respective sectors. In our particular arena, that relates, of course, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump associated tools – a huge and essential subset of business, given the width and breadth of pump applications.
Against this backdrop, one of many major concerns when figuring out the core themes for the joint convention was to maintain up 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 companies to handle technical aspects impacting their every day enterprise operations, they contemplate the positive role of industry in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the classes may have a technical theme matching probably the most appropriate UN SDG, and with illustration from the European Commission along with technical experts from industry and/or analysis institutes, they will every be reflective of the current legislative terrain, because it pertains to pumps and pumping systems 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 materials and substances of concern (Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goal no. 6: Clean Water and Sanitation)
The regulatory and legislative panorama across Europe is becoming increasingly complicated, and industry, in all its guises, must be conscious and ready for what’s coming. By engaging with those commerce organisations that represent your finest pursuits, you’ll be able to hold abreast of all the compliance developments as they affect your small 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 here.
Europump is the European Association of Pump Manufacturers. Established in 1960, it represents sixteen National Associations. Europump members characterize more than 450 corporations with a collective manufacturing worth of greater than €10 billion and an worker base of a hundred 000 folks throughout Europe.
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