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.
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 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
Policy preparation at the European Commission is supported by both retrospective evaluations and forward-looking impact assessments.
The latest Business Planet comes from Rotterdam. The city is buzzing with imaginative entrepreneurs keen to tap in to the enormous potential of Europe’s Earth Observation space programme Copernicus.
The European Commission ordered an external evaluation of the Aerosol Dispensers Directive in 2016.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe will soon have access to up to € 25 bn of additional finance, as a result of an agreement signed today between the European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF).
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on proposals to improve merger control at EU level outlined in a White Paper.
Ventilation units will become more energy-efficient and less noisy. As of 1 January 2016 a new Ecodesign Regulation will ensure that newly produced residential ventilation units will have to fulfil minimum energy efficiency requirements as well as maximum noise emission requirements.
Just a few days ahead of the European Council, the Commission pushes the EU's smart regulation agenda further.
Over the past four years, European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani launched several action plans to help core industry sectors overcome difficulties arising from overcapacity, high production costs and trade distortions.
At the beginning of 2014, European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani unveiled his plan for a ‘European Industrial Renaissance’.
The European Commission has launched the Sustainable Industry Low Carbon II (SILC II) initiative with a budget of €20 million.
The European Commission proposes to replace the gas appliances directive governing the safety of gas-fired appliances and related safety, regulating and controlling devices by directly applicable regulation.
The Commission is seeking stakeholders’ views about the impact of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy over the past three years and on the role it should play in the future.
The European Parliament voted in favour of a Commission proposal to streamline and simplify the rules for pressure equipment products enhancing the internal market and make life for business easier at the same time.
