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Orgalime - In Brief
Manufacturing a Stronger and Greener Europe
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Edition 42, February 2013
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Welcome
Orgalime In-Brief edition 42.
On 13 February, we received details about the much awaited 'Product safety and Market Surveillance Package'. At last the opportunity to level the playing field for legitimate market operators has been realised. The package provides a solid footing on which to build a market surveillance system that not only protects the consumers from a health and safety aspect, but also (from our perspective), just as important, also the companies that invest much time, energy and money to ensure that their products are compliant to all European legislation, namely in the environment and energy fields. This is essential to keep manufacturing investment and jobs in Europe.
However, at the last moment the controversial issue of marking of origin has been introduced into the CPSR proposal. Whatever position one might have on this issue, it is somewhat upsetting to see that, in spite of the better regulation drive, for the second time in less than a month (the other being the E-vehicle charging system in the draft Directive on alternative fuels infrastructure) the Commission has introduced new elements at the last moment into its proposals without impact assessment, prior consultation or warning. A lesson in transparency no doubt.... [ more]
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Hats off to the Commission on REACH - first signs that regulatory predictability and stability are filtering through
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The European Commission adopted and published the outcome of the long awaited REACH review. It is to say the least, satisfying to see that the European Commission is committed to moving towards regulatory predictability and stability - key factors in welcoming industrial investment back into Europe - perhaps just the catalyst needed to build on, allowing the manufacturing sector to continue adding value with a strong prospect of jobs and growth. For once, a review has not resulted in a major overhaul of a piece of EU legislation as complex and critical as REACH - the focus rightly remains on implementation [more]
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| Energy Efficiency Directive (EED): Main principles for implementation | |
The Commission is currently developing guidelines on the main provisions of the Directive, in cooperation with member states. We strongly support this Commission initiative which, we believe, should also reflect the good practices implemented over the past years in the member states.
While there is no official consultation of stakeholders, we appreciate the opportunity given to stakeholders to contribute to these guidelines.
- A workable and enforceable implementation
- A clear EU wide approach ensuring the harmonisation of current and future practices of the different Member States, to the maximum extent possible, in delivering and reporting of progress against the targets and objectives of the Directive
- Consistency and coherence with other EU legislation, especially the Ecodesign, the Energy Labelling and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directives
- Avoiding excessive administrative and financial burdens for companies
- Setting harmonised standards and a common calculation methodology for integrated energy performance of the buildings, while granting sufficient flexibility for companies to implement their own solutions
- Acknowledging early movers and in particular avoiding penalising their efforts
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Implementation Energy Efficiency Directive (EED): Comments on Draft Commission Guidelines
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Orgalime fully supports the objectives of the Energy Efficiency Directive that establishes a common European framework of measures for the promotion of energy efficiency to achieve the 2020 EU objectives and pave the way for further energy efficiency improvements. Concerning implementation, it should be ambitious, harmonised and timely to succeed in its goals.
The Commission is currently developing guidelines, in cooperation with member states, on the main provisions of the Directive with this in mind. We strongly support this Commission initiative
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| Proposal for a Directive on the making available on the market of radio equipment (RED) | |
While Orgalime welcomes the proposal for the revision of the Radio and Telecommunication Terminal Directive (R&TTED, 1999/5), we have some areas of concern, and especially with:
- Application of the "Lex Specialis" principle
- Scope
- Scope exclusions
- Registration system
- Declaration of conformity (DoC)
- Translation of the DoC
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European Consumer Day on product safety and market surveillance - 14 March 2013
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In 2013 the European Consumer Day is coming back to Brussels. The 15th edition of the event will be held in the EESC premises on 14 March 2013 and will focus on issues related to product safety and market surveillance.
Adrian Harris, Orgalime's Director General, forms part of a panel debating 'Ensuring the safety of products for all EU citizens' - why not register? [more]
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| European Conference 'SMEs and Standardization' - 28 May 2013 (save the date!)
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European Standards offer a wide range of benefits to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They enable companies to improve their efficiency and competitiveness, minimise waste and reduce costs. They ensure the quality and safety of products and services, and make it easier to sell them throughout Europe and around the world. They help to create a level playing field, allowing SMEs to access more markets and attract new customers. SMEs can take full advantage of the benefits and opportunities offered by European Standards, but often don't know how.
The European Standards Organisations, national standards bodies and business associations are working together to improve the value of standards for SMEs, and to make sure that every business can take full advantage of all that standards have to offer [ more] |
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Intended to be more dynamic, the new Orgalime website design offers easy to find content on the issues that are important to European engineering. Be it our latest position papers, news or events or what's hot in the legal publications produced by Orgalime and widely sought after, the intuitive navigation gets you there quickly.
Once you found what you want, why not share it?! Easy to do with the site fully integrated with social media tools.
Want to know what's happening in the various member states? Our members' feeds are integrated into a 'network news'. Additionally, there is a dynamic 'engineering news' feed [ more]
Sincerely,
Orgalime Secretariat
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Orgalime, the European Engineering Industries Association, speaks for 39 trade federations representing some 130,000 companies in the mechanical, electrical, electronic, metalworking & metal articles industries of 23 European countries. The industry employs some 10.2 million people in the EU and in 2011 accounted for some €1,666 billion of annual output. The industry not only represents some 28% of the output of manufactured products but also a third of the manufactured exports of the European Union.
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