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Orgalime〔(Orgalime )〕 (derived originally from ''('Organisme de Liaison des Industries Métalliques Européennes' )'') is the European Engineering Industries Association, speaking for 43 trade federations representing some 130,000 companies in the mechanical, electrical, electronics and metalworking and metal articles industries of 24 European countries. The industry employs about 10.3 million people in Europe and not only represents some 28% of the output of manufactured products but also a third of the manufactured exports of the European Union. ==Overview== Orgalime is the prime voice of the EU engineering industry on selected issues that affect a broad range of its members. The aim is to excel in the: * Provision of information to members concerning the activities of the European Union and international bodies of direct relevance, that impact the operations of engineering companies operating in the EU. * Provision of information and opinions to the European institutions on policy and regulatory issues. * Provision of a network for members to facilitate information exchange and together develop services which are useful to their member companies. * Provision of a wide range of customised services to different sectors of industry, notably for the monitoring, analysis and dissemination of relevant information published by regulators and for the organisation of congresses and events. * Production of publications to provide the European engineering companies with model general conditions and documents to help draw up business contracts and give practical advice on frequently occurring legal questions, including in the context of European directives and regulations. Whilst a significant part of the output of the engineering industries are either capital goods or destined for B-2-B transactions, there is also a large consumer goods output, particularly in the electrical and electronic branch. The (vision ) is to actively promote the development in Europe of the necessary competitive framework conditions under which companies can flourish, provide growth and employment both today and in the long term as manufacturers in the EU, and to ensure that the trading conditions they face are fair, both in the EU and on export markets. A Secretariat currently numbering 26 deals with the numerous policy issues that are of direct interest to our industry. Given that, in the European Commission alone, there are potentially 14 Directorates General to do business with, effective input from Orgalime can only be achieved with the committed support of specialists from members and European sector committees. Companies are overwhelmingly small and medium-sized enterprises and cover a broad industry cross-section in terms of product, market segment and geographical spread. Whilst a significant part of the output of the engineering industries is either capital goods or destined for B-2-B transactions, there is also a large consumer goods output, particularly in the electrical and electronic branch. From 1 January 2013, Mr Sandro Bonomi, President of the Company - Enolgas Bonomi S.p.a.〔(Enolgas )〕 and of all companies under its control, became the President of Orgalime, replacing Mr Richard Dick of W Lucy and Co Ltd.〔(W Lucy and Co Ltd )〕 Clients include – *suppliers: the energy and primary transformation industries; *transport industry: the automotive, aeronautics, and rail equipment producers; *all processing industries: the agroindustry and food industry in general, the chemical, petrochemical, and plastics industries; and *consumers in the form of ICT products and household appliances. Orgalime is part of an extensive network at European level which includes the Confederation of European Business ((BUSINESSEUROPE )), other branch federations, a sister organisation (CEEMET ) representing the employers in the engineering industry, as well as a number of individual European sector committees/associations representing the interests of individual engineering products or product lines: * BUSINESSEUROPE * Major industrial branch federations (Fédérations européennes des branches industrielles - FEBIs) * Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-based Industries (CEEMET) * 120 European product sector committees/associations in the engineering industry The engineering industries are also suppliers of equipment and technology for the health, social and leisure sectors and for the area of the environment including water, wastewater and air treatment equipment essential to the creation and maintenance of a safe environment. On the 22 January 2014, the European Commission issued its contribution to the 2014 European Council debate on industrial policy - ‘For a European Industrial Renaissance’ (see Orgalime's response ). This is the latest follow-up to the European Commission's industrial policy flagship of 2010, which laid out a strategy for sustainable growth, competitiveness and job creation in the context of Europe 2020. The 2012 review of the industrial policy communication was adopted by the Commission in October 2012. Frequent policy changes, the tendency at a national level to gold plate EU legislation and at EU level to review legislation often on a 5-year basis (generally leading to a revision) means that in the EU, there is a highly complex and unpredictable body of regulation which has become too unwieldy for companies and, in particular, SMEs (which account for over 90% of the companies represented by Orgalime) with their limited resources and their focus on their core business to manage, in particular when the investment horizon and also often the product life cycle for manufacturers in the capital goods industry is 10 years or more. The revision of existing legislation after short periods of time and the adoption of additional and sometimes even incoherent legislation is an avoidable burden for SMEs which undermines their global competitiveness, an example of which was the recent review of the RoHS directive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orgalime」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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