(20 February 2024) The chemical industry took the lead and gathered energy-intensive companies and sectors at the European Industry Summit 2024 at BASF in Antwerp to ask EU leaders, Commission President von der Leyen and Belgian Prime Minister De Croo, to put industry first during the next five years.
In their Antwerp Declaration, industry asks to make the next Commission’s First Vice-President responsible for a European industrial deal. The first Vice-President is currently in charge of the European Green Deal.
The Declaration says that the first legislative measure of the new Commission should be to present a proposal to streamline all legislation in order to “eliminate regulatory incoherence, conflicting objectives, unnecessary complexity in legislation and over-reporting”.
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- A coalition of 70 civil society organisations objected to the secrecy of the event and called it “an insult to communities […] living with PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ pollution from the 3M plant in Antwerp” in an open letter to Belgian Prime Minister De Croo.
- 108 organisations, Antwerp declaration (20 Feb. 2024)
- Cefic, social media post on the handover of the Antwerp Declaration (20 Feb. 2024)
- 70 civil society organisations, open letter to Prime Minister de Croo (20 Feb. 2024)
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