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Orgalime In-Brief edition 38.

 

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The purpose of the Orgalime Guide is to explain the main changes and obligations arising from the recast, and to identify their consequences for Orgalime industries.  Its update of September 2012 provides to readers the common understanding of the Directive of the affected European manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment in the context of the Commission's consultation on the draft RoHS2-FAQ Guidance Document of 15 June 2012 and its announced possible revision before 3 January 2013 [more]  

Orgalime supports the Commission's infrastructure package (including the draft TEN-E Regulation) and related work of the European Parliament to step up efforts in investing and making trans-European energy infrastructures fit for meeting future societal challenges.

We consider the proposal for a TEN-E Regulation as an opportunity to achieve more competitive, flexible, integrated, energy efficient energy infrastructures, while ensuring security and reliability of energy supply. This is not only essential for European industries, which depend on energy input for their manufacturing processes, but also of utmost importance for the overall welfare of European citizens in a modern society.

As key technology providers for the generation, transmission, distribution and use of energy and energy related products, but also as significant energy users, European engineering industries represented by Orgalime are particularly committed to contribute to upgrading and modernising energy infrastructures in Europe and beyond.  We are equally committed to work together with all other actors and stakeholders in the interest of achieving smart, sustainable, cost-efficient and inclusive growth solutions[more ]

We fully agree with you that new thinking is needed. We cannot go on with business as usual.

Thank you for your words of the 12 September, on how successful Europe's engineering industry is in a globalised world.  Indeed, our industry which employs over 10 million people in Europe is a world leader.  Why?  Because our companies are dynamic and focused: they thrive on innovation developed with capable staff who invest their knowledge into developing the new products which give their companies their fine competitive edge.  This is the fruit of hard work and in the past has been much helped by a supportive framework - the internal market - which allowed our companies to grow in Europe.

The British Olympians had 17 days of sporting triumph at the recent London 2012 game; however that triumph was a decade in the making. Success was instilled through foresight and through hard work together across the board to make the Olympics a success for each and every athlete [more]

Intellectual Property Rights - Our views on the future tasks of the European Observatory

EP Internal Market and Consumer Affairs Committee (IMCO) report on the alignment of 9 Directives with Decision 768/2008

As the international sale of products represents the core business of companies in the mechanical and electrical engineering industries in Europe, Orgalime soon recognised that these companies would benefit from a set of General Conditions for the supply of products, which could be used worldwide.  The original version of the Orgalime Supply Conditions was first published in 1992 (S 92 conditions) and these conditions have ever since been among Orgalime's most widely used legal publications.

They are used in a very large-scale with well over 1,000,000 hard copies sold since their publication and they are the biggest pull to our licensing website, where hundreds of companies from all over the world have purchased a licence for the use of Orgalime's standardised conditions in electronic format [more]