Publications
Energy and environment
Revision of the REACH regulation – BusinessEurope contribution to the public consultation
Key messages
Chemicals are key components of materials used in every-day life, from the food we eat to the medicines we take, from the cosmetics we apply to the devices we use or the clothes we wea...
Energy and environment
IED revision will unnecessarily make industrial operations more complex
Today, the European Commission proposed to revise the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). This directive is one of the main instruments to regulate industrial activities and related emissions from a...
Circular economy
EU Commission’s Sustainable Product Initiative is an opportunity for more circularity
Today, the European Commission presented its Sustainable Product Initiative (SPI). It broadens the scope of the eco-design directive, introduces circularity criteria and proposes rules for sustainabil...
Energy and environment
The ‘Essential Use’ concept – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
The ‘Essential Use’ concept (EUC) represents a departure from the current risk-based regulatory approach and poses a number of challenges and potential risks such as unclear defini...
Circular economy
Digital Product Passport – a BusinessEurope position paper
Key messages
BusinessEurope welcomes the objective of the DPP, as a potential enabler of the circular economy. The lack of information transfer across the value chains is one of the challenges to t...
Climate change
The ‘Fit for 55 package’ – a BusinessEurope position paper
Executive summary
The ‘Fit for 55’ package significantly deepens and broadens the decarbonisation of Europe’s economy to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. BusinessEurope supports the Europe...
Climate change
EU business proposals for climate neutrality and industrial competitiveness
Fit for 55 package: "momentous action needed to meet the ambitious 2030 targets"
Today, BusinessEurope published its essential positions on the European Commission's 'Fit for 55' package to significa...
Climate change
COP26: EU’s global trading partners miss out on solid 2030 commitments
Today the global climate conference COP26 in Glasgow ended without sufficiently ambitious announcements for Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by the EU’s largest trading partners.
Business...
Climate change
EU fit-for-55: direction is right, but the devil is in the details
Enhancing climate ambition while ensuring EU industry’s competitiveness
Today, the European Commission published its Fit-for-55 package. Its aim is to align the European legislative arsenal with th...
Social
Corporate sustainability reporting directive – a BusinessEurope position paper
Executive summary
The business community is fully committed to global sustainability and to driving investment more into sustainable activities. More and more companies take an active role in this...
Financing research and innovation