Category: Legislation

Guide on the F-Gas Regulation

FEM has issued a guide on the application of Regulation 517/2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases  (F-gases) to materials handling equipment. The guide will help companies integrating air conditioning systems in the machines they manufacture or import to comply with the requirements from the F-Gas Regulation. The F-Gas Regulation sets a number of requirements related to… Read more »

Guide on the F-Gas Regulation

FEM calls for an ambitious EU industrial strategy

FEM features among the 92 European trade associations that co-signed a Joint Declaration for an ambitious EU industrial strategy. The European manufacturing industry employs over 34 million people in supply chains comprising hundreds of thousands of SMEs and larger suppliers. These need to be supported if the EU is to  remain a competitive global industrial… Read more »

FEM calls for an ambitious EU industrial strategy

Non-compliance costs and needs better enforcement

Last October FEM supported the Orgalime contribution and position paper on “market surveillance: enforcement and compliance”. The European Commission has now published the results of this consultation, which have been aggregated to reflect trends in the way stakeholders responded to the questions. For instance, a wide majority of business stakeholders confirmed that their products are… Read more »

FEM confirms the positive impact of the Machinery Directive

In the context of the ongoing study on the review of the Machinery Directive, FEM submitted its contribution to the European Commission’s public consultation and also to the questionnaire targeted to industry associations in mid-December 2016. FEM confirmed that the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC has had an overall positive impact over the last ten years, significantly… Read more »