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 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’ll rely quite closely on industry to deliver on the main challenges faced by our economies and societies in Europe. This is particularly the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and global 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 essentially constructing on the capability of European trade 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 doesn’t all the time help the liberty and flexibility needed for corporations to grow and compete globally.
The European technology industries, and specifically our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a very long time considered the enhancement of their international competitiveness within the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of energy efficiency and ecolabel rules. In parallel, digitalisation has provided elevated alternatives and brought new challenges, including debates on the suitable regulatory degree (sharing of commercial data, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
ไดอะแฟรม ซีล , amidst ever more fierce international competition, require that public authorities and business within the EU work increasingly extra intently to design and deploy strategies 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 is ready to deliver collectively key policy makers from the three EU coverage establishments in command of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements enjoyed, and challenges nonetheless faced, by these three key sectors of trade.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama across Europe, and certainly the whole world, turns into ever more advanced, the burden on trade solely increases. It subsequently falls to sector particular trade organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to determine and advise on those technical and coverage points most related to their respective sectors. In our particular enviornment, that relates, in fact, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump associated tools – an enormous and necessary subset of trade, given the width and breadth of pump functions.
Against this backdrop, one of many primary concerns when figuring out the core themes for the joint conference was to take care of 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 address technical features impacting their every day enterprise operations, they contemplate the positive role of trade in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the classes may have a technical theme matching the most acceptable UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission together with technical consultants from trade and/or analysis institutes, they may each be reflective of the current legislative terrain, as it pertains 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)
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