Press releases
Press releases22 March 2023
Brussels, 22 March 2023 - The long-awaited Right to Repair initiative put forth today by the European Commission is the missing piece of the jigsaw to a consistent legislative framework for consumers and manufacturers, as Europe strives to reach its Green Deal objectives. According to a Eurobaromete...
Press releases16 March 2023
Brussels, 16 March 2023 - As part of Europe’s renewed trade strategy, the proposed Critical Raw Materials Act presented today by the European Commission promises to advance open strategic autonomy but it does not specify where “open” ends and where “autonomy” begins. In a borderless global economy w...
Press releases16 March 2023
Brussels, 16 March 2023 - The proposed Net-Zero Industry Act, unveiled today by the European Commission fails to reflect the true market reality in Europe, by treating unequally strategic net-zero solutions whose deployment would be instrumental to ramp up European production capacities for renewabl...
Press releases16 March 2023
Brussels, 16 March 2023 - The EU Single Market is the bedrock of the European economy and one of the greatest achievements of European integration. 30 years on from its foundation, regulatory barriers and obstacles to cross-border trade make its potential still far from being exhausted. The EU’s pro...
Press releases14 March 2023
Brussels, 14 March 2023 - The EU’s proposed Electricity Market Design (EMD) tabled today by the European Commission offers great potential to address, in a structural way, the current energy resilience and energy affordability crisis, by stimulating the development of a market for demand-side manage...
Press releases08 March 2023
Brussels, 8 March 2023 - As EU lawmakers and the bloc's governments get ready to close in on their final negotiations of the EU’s proposed Data Act, uncertainty about the scope and practicality of application of this complex, radical, data-sharing law risks eroding the competitiveness of the industr...
Press releases23 February 2023
Brussels, Belgium - APPLiA welcomes on board its newest member, Versuni . Formerly known as Philips Domestic Appliances, the company became independent in September 2021 and globally unveiled its new brand identity in 2023. As a licensee of Royal Philips, Versuni will keep the Philips consumer brand...
Press releases26 October 2022
APPLiA - Home Appliance Europe kicks off its energy-saving campaign , gathering the intelligence of global leading home appliances manufacturing companies, to encourage small, effective changes to the way consumers use their home appliances. The purpose? Spelt out in the name of the campaign, #killU...
Press releases17 October 2022
The shortage of skilled workers across Europe is becoming a very prominent issue. Experienced professional repairmen are retiring and younger generations have other careers in sight. With technology evolving at a fast pace, this risks leaving a big market gap to fill. At a time when societal and leg...
Press releases27 June 2022
Taking over the presidency from Dr. Peter H. Göetz, Executive VP of BSH Europe, Arcelik’s CEO, Hakan Bulgurlu, has been elected as the new president of APPLiA. Arcelik’s CEO, Hakan Bulgurlu, has been elected as the new president of APPLiA - Home Appliance Europe , the Brussels-based association repr...
Press releases22 June 2022
Member States approved the EU’s proposed updated steel import safeguards regime, envisioning an increase in the “liberalisation rate” of quotas for tariff-free steel. Yet, the measure is still insufficient to meet the sectoral demand of raw materials and ensure fair access to competitive steel. Firs...
Press releases17 May 2022
While the home appliance sector welcomes the efforts undertaken by the Committee to tackle downstream industries, the proposal, as it currently stands, lacks the necessary provisions to effectively prevent carbon leakage in downstream products and industrial delocalisation. Today, the European Parli...