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​​

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