Last update: 3 May 2021
Industry sectors
Environmental responsibility
Intellectual property
- Accreditation and market surveillance
- Workers’ health and safety in the mineral-extracting industries
- Uniform conditions for the marketing of safe products in the EU (conformity marking)
- Support for research-performing SMEs (Eurostars-2)
- Unfair commercial practices
- Towards a more competitive and efficient EU defence and security sector
- Textile products: textile fibre names and labelling
- Safety of simple pressure vessels in the EU
- Safety of pressure vessel equipment and material
- Safer cosmetics for EU citizens
- Safe air navigation: Contributing to a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
- Product safety: general rules
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Package travel – consumer rights (from 2018)
- Reducing interference between electrical and electronic devices
- Noise emission by equipment used outdoors
- New rules for the commercialisation of radio equipment
- Management of waste from extractive industries
- Machinery safety
- Health and safety of workers in the extractive industries
- Galileo — access to the public regulated service
- In vitro diagnostic medical devices
- Industrial emissions
- Footwear labelling
- European metrology programme for innovation and research (EMPIR)
- European Defence Action Plan
- European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) – how the European Union regulates chemicals
- EU space programme (2021–2027) – European Union Agency for the Space Programme
- EU cross-border parcel delivery services
- Equipment used in potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX)
- Ensuring lift safety
- Ensuring the safety and performance of medical devices
- Ensuring safe personal protective equipment for users
- Ensuring the safety and performance of in vitro diagnostic medical devices
- Ensuring the safety of toys in the European Union
- End-of-life vehicles
- Electrical safety: low-voltage electrical equipment
- E-commerce - standard EU rules
- Defence-related products: rules on transfer within the EU
- Corporate social responsibility in the EU
- Controls on weapons purchases and possession
- Construction products
- Competitive European metals industries
- Combating illegal logging
- Civil aviation rules and the EASA
- Ceramic objects in contact with foodstuffs
- Cableway installations for passengers
- Boosting international tourism in Europe
- Anti-dumping protection — shipbuilding industry
- Appliances burning gaseous fuels (from 2018)
- Animal by-products not intended for human consumption
Environmental responsibility
- Assessing environmentally sustainable investments
- Uniform conditions for the marketing of safe products in the EU (conformity marking)
- SET-Plan for the development of low-carbon technologies
- The new EU accreditation and verification regulation
- Safe and effective fertilisers on the EU market
- Restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Energy consumption: Framework for labelling rules
- Ecolabel
- Eco-design for energy-using appliances
- Better environmental performance: European eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS)
Intellectual property
- Accession to the World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties
- WTO: agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property
- Unified Patent Court Agreement
- Legal protection: Topographies of semiconductor products
- Intellectual property rights — customs enforcement
- Intellectual property rights infringements
- Fighting violations of EU intellectual property rights in non-EU countries
- EU rules on protecting trade secrets
- Ensuring technology transfer agreements respect competition rules
- Enforcement of intellectual property rights
- Copyright and related rights
- Computer programs — legal protection
- Resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art
- Rental, lending and certain other rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property
- Legal protection: databases
- EU rules on protecting trade secrets
- Copyright — broadcasters’ online transmissions and retransmissions of television and radio programmes
- Copyright and related rights: term of protection
- Copyright and related rights: satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
- Copyright and related rights in the information society
- Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
- Computer programs — legal protection
- Inventions, trade marks & designs
- Biotechnological inventions: legal protection
- Community design
- EU unitary patents – translation arrangements
- EU trade mark law (national registrations)
- European Union trade mark
- Harmonised national laws on the protection of designs
- Wider access to copyright material — orphan works
- Single EU patent boosts intellectual property protection and cuts related costs - EUR-Lex
- Supplementary protection certificates for medicines and plant protection products
- Biotechnological inventions: legal protection
Entrepreneurship & small businesses
- A new EU approach to handling business failure and insolvency
- Single Market Programme
- Transfer of businesses
- The SME Envoy
- Promoting youth entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion of young people
- Micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises: definition and scope
- InvestEU Programme (2021-2027)
- Implementing the small and medium-sized enterprises initiative
- European standardisation
- European social entrepreneurship funds
- EU programmes — agencies
- Combating late payment in business dealings
- A small business act for European SMEs
- A simplified business environment
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