The Commission proposes today new rules and actions aiming to turn Europe into the global hub for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) is adapting its organisational structure to help Europe’s industrial ecosystems recover more effectively from the COVID-crisis and to achieve the EU's digital and green goals.
Today, the Commission is making available guidance to assist manufacturers in ramping up production of essential medical equipment and material in three areas: the production of masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE), leave-on hand cleaners and hand disinfectants and 3D printing in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. Guidance on medical devices will also be made available within the coming days. These documents also aim to assist manufacturers and market surveillance authorities in making sure these products comply with necessary safety standards and are effective.
The EU expert group on the competitiveness of the EU rail supply industry has endorsed several recommendations to maintain the global leadership of the rail supply industry. The recommendations envisage additional measures while ensuring synergies with the policy measures already in place to meet the current challenges of the rail supply industry.
Business Planet is in Osijek, Croatia to look at why it's important for companies to integrate their intellectual property into their overall strategy.
The European Commission has evaluated the Product Liability Directive (Directive 85/374/EEC) and the Machinery Directive (Directive 2006/42/EC). The results published today show that both Directives are fit for purpose and conducive to innovation.
This call for tender designates the technical secretariat for the groups of notified bodies established under Personal Protective Equipment Regulation (EU) 2016/425.
The Commission is setting up a group on artificial intelligence to gather expert input and rally a broad alliance of diverse stakeholders.
A call for expression of interest for consultants with expertise in harmonised standards (HAS Consultants) is open. HAS Consultants will assess to what extent documents, or parts thereof, drafted by the European standardisation organisations comply with the European Commission's standardisation requests, and to what extent they deal with and support relevant essential or other requirements set out by the relevant EU harmonisation legislation.
The updated lists of references of harmonised standards were published today in the Official Journal of the European Union (C344, 13 October 2017) in support of Directive 89/686/EEC on personal protective equipment (5 new standards) and Directive 2014/53/EU on radio equipment (4 new standards).
The Commission and the European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) have launched work on the implementation of a plan, which includes pilot projects to reduce the number of non-cited standards in the most affected sectors, and actions to improve the legislative compliance of harmonised standards during their development.
The purpose of this Call for Tender is to designate the Technical Secretariats for the groups of notified bodies established under the following Directives and Regulation: Lot 1: ATEX, Lot 2: Machinery, Lot 3: EMC, Lot 4: Lifts, Lot 5: Pressure Equipment, Lot 6: Gas
The objective of the project is to prepare the evolutions of the SAR/Galileo Return Link Service and in particular to study the further implementation of the remote beacon activation and 2-way messaging services.
