Ahead of its Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with CEIR and Pneurop in Brussels this May, Europump president Vanni Vignoli appears 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 additional indicated that it’ll rely fairly closely on trade 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 global competitiveness, as properly 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 constructing on the potential of European industry 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 always support the freedom and adaptability needed for firms to develop and compete globally.
The European technology industries, and specifically our pumps, compressors, faucets and valves sectors, have for a very 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 effectivity and ecolabel laws. In parallel, digitalisation has provided increased opportunities and brought new challenges, together with debates on the appropriate regulatory degree (sharing of commercial data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever more fierce worldwide competition, require that public authorities and business in the EU work more and more extra carefully 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 together key policy 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 trade.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama throughout Europe, and certainly the entire world, becomes ever more complex, the burden on trade solely will increase. It therefore falls to sector particular trade organisations, such as Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to determine and advise on those technical and policy points most relevant to their respective sectors. In our particular arena, that relates, of course, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump related tools – a huge and important subset of trade, given the width and breadth of pump purposes.
Against this backdrop, one of the major considerations when figuring out 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 importance for firms to address technical features impacting their day by day business operations, they think about the constructive function of industry in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all of the periods may have a technical theme matching probably the most appropriate UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission along with technical consultants from industry and/or research institutes, they may each be reflective of the current legislative terrain, as it relates to pumps and pumping systems 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 across Europe is turning into increasingly complicated, and trade, in all its guises, must be aware and ready for what’s coming. By participating with those commerce organisations that characterize your finest interests, you can keep abreast of all of the compliance developments as they affect your business and the areas by which you operate.
Europump’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Joint Conference will happen 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 Swipe , it represents 16 National Associations. Europump members symbolize more than 450 firms with a collective manufacturing worth of greater than €10 billion and an worker base of a hundred 000 individuals across Europe.
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