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 »
Today FEM has officially launched its Twitter account @FEM_EUR. This will be your source of information on FEM’s activities, positions, events, as well as relevant EU developments on issues that affect the European materials handling, lifting and storage industry. Follow us and help us expand our community!
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 »
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 »
