Last update: 3 May 2021
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Competitive industrial policy
- The single digital gateway
- Implementing the small and medium-sized enterprises initiative
- European Fund for Strategic Investments
- Consultation - extending EU geographical indication protection to non-agricultural products
- An investment plan for Europe
- 2030 digital decade policy programme
- Strategic technologies for Europe platform (STEP)
- Thematic objectives for the ESI Funds
Industry sectors
Environmental responsibility
Intellectual property
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Industrial and livestock-rearing emissions
- Health and safety of workers in the extractive industries
- In vitro diagnostic medical devices
- Management of waste from extractive industries
- Machinery safety requirements
- Machinery safety
- Reducing interference between electrical and electronic devices
- European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) – how the European Union regulates chemicals
- European metrology programme for innovation and research (EMPIR)
- Workers’ health and safety in the mineral-extracting industries
- Footwear labelling
- E-commerce - standard EU rules
- Competitive European metals industries
- Defence-related products: rules on transfer within the EU
- Corporate social responsibility in the EU
- Combating illegal logging
- Controls on weapons purchases and possession
- Construction products
- End-of-life vehicles
- Electrical safety: low-voltage electrical equipment
- Equipment used in potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX directive)
- Ensuring the safety of toys on the EU market
- Ensuring the safety of toys in the European Union
- Ensuring the safety and performance of medical devices
- Ensuring the safety and performance of in vitro diagnostic medical devices
- EU cross-border parcel delivery services
- Ensuring safe personal protective equipment for users
- Ensuring lift safety
- Animal by-products not intended for human consumption
- Ceramic objects in contact with foodstuffs
- Cableway installations for passengers
- Boosting international tourism in Europe
- Accreditation of conformity assessment bodies in the European Union
- Appliances burning gaseous fuels
- Anti-dumping protection — shipbuilding industry
- New rules for the commercialisation of radio equipment
- Noise emission by equipment used outdoors
- Support for research-performing SMEs (Eurostars-2)
- Strengthening the EU’s semiconductor ecosystem – Chips Act
- Textile products: textile fibre names and labelling
- Safety of simple pressure vessels in the EU
- Safety of pressure vessel equipment and assemblies
- Safer cosmetics for people in the EU
- Uniform conditions for the marketing of safe products in the EU (conformity marking)
- Packaging and packaging waste (from 2026)
Environmental responsibility
- Uniform conditions for the marketing of safe products in the EU (conformity marking)
- Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
- Restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment
- Reporting of environmental data from industrial installations and establishment of the Industrial Emissions Portal
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Common rules promoting the repair of goods and amending related EU legislation
- Ecodesign for energy-related products
- Energy consumption – framework for labelling rules
- Ecolabel
- Better environmental performance: Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS)
- A secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials
- Assessing environmentally sustainable investments
- Clean industrial deal State aid framework
- SET-Plan for the development of low-carbon technologies
- The new EU accreditation and verification regulation
Intellectual property
- Fighting violations of EU intellectual property rights in non-EU countries
- Intellectual property rights infringements
- Intellectual property rights — customs enforcement
- Legal protection: Topographies of semiconductor products
- WTO: agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property
- EU rules on protecting trade secrets
- Enforcement of intellectual property rights
- Accession to the World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties
- Unified Patent Court Agreement
- Copyright and related rights
- Ensuring technology transfer agreements respect competition rules
- Legal protection: databases
- 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
- Rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)
- Computer programs — legal protection
- 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
- EU rules on protecting trade secrets
- Inventions, trade marks & designs
- European Union trade mark
- 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
- Wider access to copyright material — orphan works
- EU trade mark law (national registrations)
- EU unitary patents – translation arrangements
- European Union designs
- Harmonised national laws on the protection of designs (from 2027)
- Harmonised national laws on the protection of designs (until 2027)
Entrepreneurship & small 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 crowdfunding service providers for business
- European Union standardisation
- European social entrepreneurship funds
- Combating late payment in business dealings
- EU programmes — agencies
- A small business act for European SMEs
- A simplified business environment
- A new EU approach to handling business failure and insolvency
- Multiple-vote shares for trading on multilateral trading facilities
- Single Market Programme
- Transfer of businesses
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