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.
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 is going to rely quite closely on business to deliver on the major challenges faced 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 need to overcome the disaster provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The EU Recovery and Resilience Plan launched in Spring 2021 is largely building on the potential of European trade to design and produce the constructing blocks of the twin green and digital transition. At the identical time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that doesn’t always help the liberty and flexibility needed for corporations to grow and compete globally.
The European know-how industries, and in particular our pumps, compressors, faucets and valves sectors, have for a protracted time considered the enhancement of their international competitiveness throughout the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of energy effectivity and ecolabel rules. In Child’s play , digitalisation has provided elevated alternatives and introduced new challenges, including debates on the appropriate regulatory degree (sharing of business information, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever extra fierce international competitors, require that public authorities and industry in the EU work increasingly more intently 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 can bring together key policy makers from the three EU coverage establishments in cost of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements loved, and challenges still confronted, by these three key sectors of trade.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama across Europe, and indeed the whole world, turns into ever extra complex, the burden on industry only will increase. It therefore falls to sector specific commerce organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to establish and advise on those technical and policy issues most related to their respective sectors. In our particular area, that relates, after all, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump related equipment – an enormous and essential subset of trade, given the width and breadth of pump purposes.
Against this backdrop, one of many major concerns when determining the core themes for the joint conference was to maintain up 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 corporations to deal with technical aspects impacting their daily business operations, they think about the constructive function of trade in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the sessions could have a technical theme matching the most acceptable UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission along with technical experts from business and/or analysis institutes, they’ll every be reflective of the current legislative terrain, as 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 supplies and substances of concern (Relevant UN Sustainable Development Goal no. 6: Clean Water and Sanitation)
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