Proud to be at the Antwerp Dialogue table with Europe’s industry leaders

A.I.S.E. is delighted to be involved in today’s Antwerp Dialogue focusing on the 6th priority of the Declaration, to “boost demand for net zero, low carbon and circular products via specific market pull measures”. A.I.S.E. signed the Antwerp Declaration for a European Industrial Deal when it was launched in February of this year, bringing together multiple stakeholders from the EU institutions, industry sectors, trade unions, Member State governments and NGOs. The series of dialogues on each of the 10 priorities aim for consensus amongst the stakeholders to support future EU decision-making.

We need to keep industry in Europe because the industry will deliver the climate solutions Europe needs.

Some key points made by A.I.S.E. today:

• The cleaning and maintenance products sector in Europe has a vital role to ensure the availability of essential products that clean, disinfect and maintain our homes and the public spaces in which we circulate. Hygienic healthcare facilities, clean public transport, and a safe food chain are complex tasks!
• Concentrated products vastly reduce the product carbon footprint (PCF) – the current public procurement criteria contradict our sector’s efforts on concentration. GPP needs to consider the complete environmental impact, not focus on singular aspects
• Digitalisation has the potential to facilitate product labels to focus on essential safe use information for users. With regards to the Digital Product Passport (DPP), A.I.S.E. underlines the need for coherence and alignment – the transition period for implementing the DPP needs to start after the secondary legislation for both the Detergents Regulation and the Ecodesign Regulation (ESPR) is adopted.

Read more in A.I.S.E.’s position on the Detergents Regulation revision