Ahead of its Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with CEIR and Pneurop in Brussels this May, Europump president Vanni Vignoli seems at 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 is going to rely fairly closely on business to deliver on the main challenges faced 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 capability of European trade 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 assist the freedom and suppleness needed for companies to develop and compete globally.
The European expertise industries, and in particular our pumps, compressors, faucets and valves sectors, have for a very long time considered the enhancement of their international competitiveness within 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 opportunities and introduced new challenges, together with debates on the suitable regulatory stage (sharing of commercial data, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever more fierce worldwide competition, require that public authorities and business within the EU work more and more extra 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 topic of the initial debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which will bring together key policy makers from the three EU coverage establishments in charge of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements enjoyed, and challenges nonetheless faced, by these three key sectors of trade.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama throughout Europe, and indeed the whole world, turns into ever extra complex, the burden on industry solely increases. It subsequently falls to sector particular commerce organisations, corresponding to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to identify and advise on those technical and coverage issues most related to their respective sectors. In our particular enviornment, that relates, in fact, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump related gear – a huge and necessary subset of industry, given the width and breadth of pump purposes.
Against this backdrop, one of the main concerns when figuring out the core themes for the joint conference was to maintain a direct reference to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Within No risk , the three associations intend to spotlight how, along with the significance for companies to deal with technical features impacting their daily business operations, they consider the constructive position of trade 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 together with technical experts from business and/or research institutes, they’ll each be reflective of the current legislative terrain, as it relates 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 throughout Europe is changing into increasingly advanced, and industry, in all its guises, must be aware and ready for what is coming. By partaking with those commerce organisations that represent your best interests, you’ll be able to hold abreast of all the compliance developments as they have an result on your business and the areas during which you operate.
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 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 corporations with a collective production value of greater than €10 billion and an employee base of a hundred 000 folks across Europe.
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