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Orgalime In-Brief edition 39.

 

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European Engineering industries are generally committed to the objectives of the EU Resource Efficiency Roadmap.  We believe that developing indicators that are meaningful and appropriate needs to be based on a clear set of criteria, including the Commission's suggested criteria of RACER (relevance, acceptability, credibility, easiness, robustness), but also on further criteria, such as data availability, fitness for purpose to guide regulators in their policy making, consistency, completeness or timeliness [ more]  

Orgalime and NORMAPME have just issued a joint position paper on accreditation: we support the principle that conformity assessment must be carried out in a proportionate manner, taking into account the size and the nature of the organisation concerned and other relevant criteria, and that this principle should be properly implemented.

Proportionality of conformity assessment does not imply simplified conformity assessment procedures or light certification/testing. Proportionality does not affect the technical requirements or the assessment method specified for products, but rather seeks to relate the administrative conditions and the overall scale of a conformity assessment procedure to the size and individual situation of an undertaking [more]

The European engineering industries are export oriented and in total run a healthy trade surplus with other world economies. Despite the current difficult economic setting - the transatlantic trade and investment relationship continues to account for the largest economic relationship in the world, and the EU and the US economies account together for about half of the entire world GDP and for nearly a third of world trade flows. Transatlantic relationship has an unexploited potential and Orgalime strongly supports increased cooperation between the EU and the US.

For EU companies in our industry, one key barrier on the US market is the malfunctioning of the US certification market. We therefore urge the European Commission to find a solution to this core challenge which has preoccupied our companies since many years. [more]

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]