Ahead of its Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with CEIR and Pneurop in Brussels this May, Europump president Vanni Vignoli looks at the EU’s roadmap for industrial support.
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’s going to rely fairly heavily on business to deliver on the major challenges confronted by our economies and societies in Europe. This is particularly the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and world 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 largely building on the potential of European trade to design and produce the constructing blocks of the dual green and digital transition. At the same time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that doesn’t at all times support the liberty and suppleness wanted for companies to develop and compete globally.
digital pressure gauge -how industries, and specifically our pumps, compressors, faucets and valves sectors, have for a protracted time thought of the enhancement of their global competitiveness inside the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of power efficiency and ecolabel regulations. In parallel, digitalisation has offered increased alternatives and introduced new challenges, together with debates on the suitable regulatory level (sharing of business knowledge, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever more fierce worldwide competitors, require that public authorities and business 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 will be the topic of the preliminary debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which is in a position to convey collectively key policy makers from the three EU coverage establishments in charge of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements loved, 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 extra advanced, the burden on business solely increases. It therefore falls to sector specific commerce organisations, similar to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to establish and advise on those technical and coverage points 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 gear – a huge and important subset of industry, given the width and breadth of pump applications.
Against this backdrop, one of many main concerns when determining 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 highlight how, together with the significance for companies to deal with technical aspects impacting their every day business operations, they contemplate the constructive position of business in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the sessions will have a technical theme matching probably the most applicable UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission together with technical consultants from industry and/or research institutes, they will each be reflective of the present legislative terrain, as it relates to pumps and pumping techniques in the following key areas:
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