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BRUSSELS, Feb. 16, 2017 (Press Release) -Europe is the cradle of the manufacturing industry and has been at the forefront of industrial revolutions and technological innovations. The industry directly employs over 34 million people across all Member States, in supply chains comprising hundreds of thousands of SMEs and larger suppliers. It also indirectly accounts for millions of additional jobs in related sectors.
Read moreBRUSSELS, Feb. 15, 2017 (Press Release) -Following today’s vote at plenary on the Emissions Trading System the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) is overall encouraged by the compromise text reached. There is much in the agreement that the industry can be positive about, retaining many of the key components of the compromise text agreed the Environment committee (ENVI) stage.
Read moreBRUSSELS, Jan. 31, 2017 (Press Release) -We, the signatories of this paper, energy-intensive sectors representing about 2 million jobs in the EU and comprising many SME’s, are under direct impact of the EU ETS and are recognized as exposed to carbon, investment and employment leakage.
We ask Members of the European Parliament to acknowledge the mutual importance of our sectors for the EU economy, in particular for European jobs in your constituencies, and all our economic value chains by fully rejecting any “tiered approach” to free allocation and voting against it.
Read moreBRUSSELS, Jan. 24, 2017 (Press Release) -The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) welcomes today’s vote in Environment Committee (ENVI) strengthening the foundation of a truly circular economy in Europe.
“MEPs are now one step closer to building a truly circular economy” says Sylvain Lhôte, CEPI Director General. “The package needs to be kept on the right track in order to deliver the circular economy in and for Europe".
Read moreBRUSSELS, Dec. 19, 2016 (Press Release) -We, European paper manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers, consumer organisations and environmental NGOs, are writing to share our concerns about the possible removal of a number of EU Ecolabel product groups[1] which we understand the Commission is considering. In our view, such a unilateral and unexpected consideration would be premature, given the ongoing Fitness Check of the EU Ecolabel Regulation, and we urge the Commission to reconsider the possible discontinuation of these product groups.
Read moreBRUSSELS, Dec. 19, 2016 (Press Release) -We, European paper manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers, consumer organisations and environmental NGOs, are writing to share our concerns about the possible removal of a number of EU Ecolabel product groups[1] which we understand the Commission is considering. In our view, such a unilateral and unexpected consideration would be premature, given the ongoing Fitness Check of the EU Ecolabel Regulation, and we urge the Commission to reconsider the possible discontinuation of these product groups.
Read moreBRUSSELS, Dec. 15, 2016 (Press Release) -Today’s vote in Environment Committee of the European Parliament marks another major stepping stone for the ETS review.
“There are no more doubts. The message from the Parliament is unequivocal: Game over for the tiered approach. The time has come to promote and reward low-carbon investments” says Nicola Rega, Climate Change and Energy Director at the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI).
Read moreMUNICH, Germany, Dec. 2, 2016 (Press Release) -Again this year, the European Paper Week, one of the largest CEPI events (Confederation of European Paper Industries), took place from 22th to 24th November 2016. The event, at which the most important major corporations in the European paper industry meet, incorporated the Young researchers: European paper industry innovation hub. It was here that ten young researchers from the Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Spain reported about the current topics they are working on.
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