Category: Legislation

Machinery Directive: FEM comments on initial proposals

FEM has provided detailed comments on a large number of proposals from various entities (mainly Member States) on the revision of the Machinery Directive (MD). These proposals were presented by the European Commission during the last Machinery WG meeting last February.  FEM insisted that the Directive’s current provisions are well-established and have been successfully applied… Read more »

Machinery Directive: FEM comments on initial proposals

REACH: FEM calls for postponement of SCIP/ECHA database

FEM, together with CECE, CEMA, EGMF, Europgen, EUnited and Euromot has addressed its concerns to Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans regarding the implementation deadline of the SCIP database. Now named SCIP database: substances of concern in articles, as such or in complex objects (products), it aims to gather information on substances of very high… Read more »

REACH: FEM calls for postponement of SCIP/ECHA database

COVID-19: Joint Statement by European mobile machinery industry

The European industry associations representing the non-road mobile machinery sector call on the EU to adopt swift measures in response to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a joint letter sent today to the European Commission CECE, CEMA, EGMF, EUnited Municipal Equipment & Cleaning, Europgen and FEM ask for a moratorium on the application… Read more »

Shaping a New Deal for the Single Market

FEM joins in with 20 other industries to call for an EU approach on harmonised standards that sustains a competitive European industry. The European Commission intends to develop an ambitious industrial strategy in support of EU digital and environmental objectives. In this context, a functioning Single Market with an efficient harmonised standards system remains necessary…. Read more »

Shaping a New Deal for the Single Market