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 bulletins of 5 May 2021 updating the New Industrial Strategy proposed in 2020, the European Commission has further indicated that it is going to rely fairly closely on industry to deliver on the most important 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 largely building on the potential of European trade to design and produce the building blocks of the twin green and digital transition. At the identical time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that doesn’t at all times help the liberty and flexibility needed for corporations to grow and compete globally.
The European know-how industries, and particularly our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a really long time considered the enhancement of their global 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 supplied elevated opportunities and introduced new challenges, including debates on the suitable regulatory stage (sharing of business information, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever extra fierce worldwide competitors, require that public authorities and business in 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 will be the subject of the preliminary debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which can bring together key coverage makers from the three EU policy institutions in command of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements enjoyed, and challenges still confronted, by these three key sectors of industry.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama across Europe, and indeed the whole world, turns into ever extra complicated, the burden on trade only will increase. It subsequently falls to sector particular trade organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to identify and advise on those technical and policy issues 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 gear – a huge and necessary subset of trade, given the width and breadth of pump functions.
Against this backdrop, one of the major concerns when determining the core themes for the joint convention was to hold up a direct reference to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Within pressure gauge , the three associations intend to focus on how, along with the significance for corporations to handle technical features impacting their daily enterprise operations, they contemplate the optimistic role of trade in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all the classes will have a technical theme matching essentially the most applicable UN SDG, and with illustration from the European Commission along with technical experts from industry and/or analysis institutes, they may every be reflective of the present legislative terrain, as it pertains to pumps and pumping methods 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 throughout Europe is changing into more and more complicated, and business, in all its guises, must be aware and ready for what’s coming. By engaging with these commerce organisations that represent your finest pursuits, you’ll be able to maintain abreast of all the compliance developments as they have an effect on your corporation and the areas by which you operate.
Europump’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Joint Conference will take place 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 process 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 corporations with a collective manufacturing worth of greater than €10 billion and an worker base of 100 000 individuals across Europe.
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