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 support.
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’s going to rely fairly heavily on business to ship on the major challenges confronted by our economies and societies in Europe. This is especially the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and international competitiveness, as nicely as the necessity 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 business 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 support the liberty and adaptability needed for corporations to develop and compete globally.
The European know-how industries, and specifically our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a really long time thought-about the enhancement of their international competitiveness throughout the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of vitality effectivity and ecolabel regulations. In parallel, digitalisation has supplied elevated alternatives and introduced new challenges, including debates on the suitable regulatory level (sharing of commercial data, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever extra fierce worldwide competitors, require that public authorities and trade within the EU work more and more more 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 topic of the preliminary debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which can convey collectively key coverage makers from the three EU policy establishments in cost 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 whole world, becomes ever extra advanced, the burden on industry only will increase. Confessions to this fact falls to sector particular commerce organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to determine and advise on those technical and policy issues most related to their respective sectors. In our particular area, that relates, in fact, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump associated equipment – a huge and necessary subset of industry, given the width and breadth of pump purposes.
Against this backdrop, one of many main considerations when determining the core themes for the joint convention was to keep up a direct reference to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Within this focus, the three associations intend to spotlight how, along with the significance for companies to deal with technical aspects impacting their every day enterprise operations, they consider the constructive function of industry in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the periods will have a technical theme matching essentially the most applicable UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission together with technical specialists from business and/or research institutes, they will each be reflective of the current legislative terrain, as it relates to pumps and pumping methods 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 supplies 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 advanced, and business, in all its guises, needs to be aware and ready for what’s coming. By partaking with those commerce organisations that characterize your finest pursuits, you probably can hold abreast of all the compliance developments as they affect 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 on the NH Collection Grand Sablon, Rue Bodenbroek – Bodenbroekstraat, 2, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.
The full programme and registration course of are available right here.
Europump is the European Association of Pump Manufacturers. Established in 1960, it represents 16 National Associations. Europump members symbolize more than 450 firms with a collective manufacturing value of more than €10 billion and an worker base of one hundred 000 folks throughout Europe.
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