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 assist.

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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 business to ship on the most important 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 crisis provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The EU Recovery and Resilience Plan launched in Spring 2021 is essentially building on the capability of European business 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 all the time support the freedom and adaptability needed for companies to grow and compete globally.

The European expertise industries, and in particular our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a very long time thought-about the enhancement of their world competitiveness within the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of energy efficiency and ecolabel laws. In parallel, digitalisation has offered elevated alternatives and introduced new challenges, including debates on the appropriate regulatory degree (sharing of industrial knowledge, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).

These developments, amidst ever extra fierce worldwide competitors, require that public authorities and industry within the EU work increasingly extra intently to design and deploy methods 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 will deliver collectively key coverage makers from the three EU coverage establishments in command of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements loved, and challenges still faced, by these three key sectors of industry.

Specific Technical and Policy Issues

As the regulatory landscape throughout Europe, and certainly the entire world, turns into ever extra complex, the burden on business solely will increase. It therefore falls to sector particular commerce organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to identify and advise on those technical and coverage points most relevant to their respective sectors. In our specific enviornment, that relates, in fact, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump associated tools – an enormous and essential subset of industry, given the width and breadth of pump functions.

Against this backdrop, one of the main concerns when determining the core themes for the joint convention was to maintain a direct reference to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Within this focus, the three associations intend to focus on how, together with the importance for firms to deal with technical elements impacting their daily enterprise operations, they consider the optimistic function of industry in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all the classes may have a technical theme matching the most applicable UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission together with technical experts from business and/or research institutes, they may every be reflective of the present legislative terrain, as it pertains 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 materials and substances of concern (Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goal no. 6: Clean Water and Sanitation)

The regulatory and legislative landscape across Europe is changing into increasingly complex, and trade, in all its guises, must be aware and ready for what’s coming. By participating with those commerce organisations that symbolize your best interests, you can maintain abreast of all the compliance developments as they have an result on your small business and the areas during which you operate.

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 process can be found right here.

Europump is the European Association of Pump Manufacturers. Established in 1960, it represents 16 National Associations. Europump members characterize greater than 450 firms with a collective manufacturing worth of greater than €10 billion and an worker base of a hundred 000 individuals across Europe.

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