Reparability is a topic that is important to all of us and what the home appliance sector in Europe values most is people’s safety and consumer choices. The industry wanted to better understand how repairable its products are, and the end results are very positive. 

Circular Society can support solutions to the 17% small home appliances ending up in the bin. Read more about how APPLiA and other organisations are facing the challenge. 

Ahead of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council meeting of 4 December, businesses from across all sectors of the European economy would like to reiterate their concern about the proposal for an ePrivacy Regulation.

Read about the one-day technical workshop on “Interoperability and communication standards for Smart Appliances”, organised by AMDEA, APPLiA and BEAMA, in London on 15th November.

“When we speak about standards, it is important to understand that we are all sitting at the same side of the table", this is how Paolo Falcioni, Director General of APPLiA, kicked off the discussion on why the participation of NGOs in the standardisation process matters. The event was organised on December 5th by the European Environmental Citizens’ Organisation for Standardisation (ECOS) in Brussels.

The European steel industry is a key business partner in all our sectors. It is vital for us that the steel industry does well to maintain stability in our supply chains.