Ahead of เกจวัดแรงดันไฟฟ้า and Joint Conference with CEIR and Pneurop in Brussels this May, Europump president Vanni Vignoli looks at the EU’s roadmap for industrial assist.
Vanni Vignoli, president of Europump.
Following its announcements of 5 May 2021 updating the New Industrial Strategy proposed in 2020, the European Commission has further indicated that it will rely fairly heavily 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 world competitiveness, in addition to 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 capability of European industry to design and produce the constructing blocks of the dual green and digital transition. At the identical time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that doesn’t always assist the freedom and adaptability needed for corporations to grow and compete globally.
The European expertise industries, and specifically our pumps, compressors, faucets and valves sectors, have for a long time thought-about the enhancement of their world competitiveness inside the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of vitality efficiency and ecolabel regulations. In parallel, digitalisation has supplied elevated opportunities and introduced new challenges, including debates on the appropriate regulatory level (sharing of commercial data, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever extra fierce worldwide competition, require that public authorities and industry within the EU work increasingly more carefully 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 will deliver collectively key policy 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 faced, by these three key sectors of business.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama across Europe, and certainly the entire world, turns into ever more complex, the burden on industry only increases. It subsequently falls to sector specific trade organisations, such as Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to establish and advise on these technical and coverage issues most relevant to their respective sectors. In our explicit enviornment, that relates, in fact, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump associated tools – a huge and necessary subset of business, given the width and breadth of pump functions.
Against this backdrop, one of the major considerations 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 spotlight how, together with the significance for companies to address technical aspects impacting their every day business operations, they contemplate the optimistic function of trade in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the classes may have a technical theme matching probably the most acceptable UN SDG, and with illustration from the European Commission along with technical experts from trade and/or research institutes, they’ll each be reflective of the current legislative terrain, because it relates 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 supplies 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 business, in all its guises, needs to be aware and prepared for what is coming. By participating with these commerce organisations that characterize your best interests, you can maintain abreast of all of the compliance developments as they have an effect on your corporation and the areas during which you use.
Europump’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Joint Conference will take place 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 are available here.
Europump is the European Association of Pump Manufacturers. Established in 1960, it represents sixteen National Associations. Europump members symbolize greater than 450 corporations with a collective production worth of more than €10 billion and an worker base of 100 000 folks across Europe.
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