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 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 additional indicated that it’s going to rely fairly closely on trade to deliver on the major challenges faced by our economies and societies in Europe. This is especially the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and international competitiveness, as well as the want 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 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 at all times assist the freedom and suppleness needed for corporations to grow and compete globally.
The European technology industries, and particularly our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a long time thought-about the enhancement of their global competitiveness throughout the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of vitality effectivity and ecolabel laws. In parallel, digitalisation has offered elevated opportunities and introduced new challenges, together with debates on the appropriate regulatory stage (sharing of industrial knowledge, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever more fierce international competition, require that public authorities and business within the EU work more and more more closely to design and deploy methods that reinforce our competitiveness and our contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). pressure gauge octa would be the topic of the preliminary debate kicking off our Joint EU Policy Conference, which can deliver together key coverage makers from the three EU coverage institutions in management of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements enjoyed, and challenges still faced, by these three key sectors of trade.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory landscape across Europe, and certainly the entire world, becomes ever extra advanced, the burden on industry only will increase. It therefore falls to sector specific trade organisations, corresponding to Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to determine and advise on these technical and policy issues 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 associated equipment – a huge and necessary subset of industry, given the width and breadth of pump functions.
Against this backdrop, one of many main issues 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 spotlight how, along with the importance for companies to address technical elements impacting their every day enterprise operations, they consider the positive role of business in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all the periods will have a technical theme matching essentially the most applicable UN SDG, and with representation from the European Commission together with technical consultants from trade and/or analysis institutes, they may every be reflective of the current legislative terrain, because it pertains 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 panorama throughout Europe is turning into more and more advanced, and trade, in all its guises, must be conscious and prepared for what’s coming. By participating with those trade organisations that represent your finest pursuits, you can maintain abreast of all the compliance developments as they have an effect on your corporation and the areas by which you use.
Europump’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Joint Conference will take place 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 can be found here.
Europump is the European Association of Pump Manufacturers. Established in 1960, it represents 16 National Associations. Europump members represent greater than 450 corporations with a collective manufacturing worth of greater than €10 billion and an employee base of a hundred 000 folks across Europe.
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