Orgalime favours a high level of environmental protection and its industries are proactive in putting environmental requirements into practice.

At the same time, manufacturers are expected to provide competent, reliable and practical replies to the requirements of the market in order to satisfy the needs of their customers. Therefore, manufacturers have to guarantee the proper environmental performance of their products without compromising for example the safety and fitness for purpose of the manufactured good.

The increasing number of legislative initiatives that our industries are faced with in the field of the environment should therefore not lead to a situation that would undermine the engineering industry’s competitiveness . In particular, coherence and coordination are key factors for environmental legislation that could work in practice and constitute the basis for a business friendly investment climate in the spirit of the Lisbon and Gothenburg objectives.