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Last update: 3 May 2021
Competitive industrial policy
  • ​An investment plan for Europe
  • Thematic objectives for the ESI Funds
  • The single digital gateway
  • Finance for innovation and enterprise (European Investment Fund)
  • Implementing the small and medium-sized enterprises initiative
  • European Fund for Strategic Investments
  • Consultation - extending EU geographical indication protection to non-agricultural products​​
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Industry sectors
  • 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
  • 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

​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

European statistics
  • European business statistics
  • Tourism statistics
Sources: European Union, http://www.europa.eu/, 1995-2025, 

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