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 will rely fairly heavily on business to ship 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, in addition to 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 aptitude of European trade to design and produce the building blocks of the twin green and digital transition. At the same time, the EU is shaping a dense regulatory framework that does not always support the freedom and flexibility wanted for companies to develop and compete globally.
The European expertise industries, and in particular our pumps, compressors, taps and valves sectors, have for a really long time thought of the enhancement of their international competitiveness throughout the challenges of societal and environmental challenges, notably by contributing to the preparation of power efficiency and ecolabel laws. In parallel, digitalisation has supplied elevated opportunities and introduced new challenges, including debates on the suitable regulatory level (sharing of commercial information, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity, etc).
These developments, amidst ever more fierce worldwide competition, require that public authorities and industry in 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 is able to bring collectively key coverage makers from the three EU coverage establishments in management of the Industrial Strategy and three Executives representing and illustrating the achievements loved, and challenges nonetheless faced, by these three key sectors of industry.
Specific Technical and Policy Issues
As the regulatory panorama throughout Europe, and indeed the whole world, turns into ever more complex, the burden on industry only will increase. It subsequently falls to sector specific commerce organisations, such as Europump, CEIR and Pneurop, to identify and advise on those technical and policy issues most related to their respective sectors. In our specific enviornment, that relates, after all, to the manufacture, distribution and use of pumps and all pump related equipment – an enormous and important subset of industry, given the width and breadth of pump purposes.
Against this backdrop, one of the primary issues when figuring out the core themes for the joint conference 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 significance for corporations to address technical features impacting their daily business operations, they contemplate the optimistic position of trade in addressing societal challenges. Indeed, all the classes could have a technical theme matching probably the most acceptable UN SDG, and with illustration from the European Commission along with technical specialists from business and/or research institutes, they’ll each be reflective of the present legislative terrain, because 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 panorama across Europe is turning into more and more complicated, and industry, in all its guises, must be aware and ready for what is coming. By participating with xp2i that represent your best pursuits, you’ll have the ability to keep abreast of all of the compliance developments as they have an effect on your corporation and the areas during which you use.
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 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 companies with a collective production worth of greater than €10 billion and an worker base of a hundred 000 people throughout Europe.
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