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Manufacturing and services: challenges for the new Commission
Joanna ZawistowskaDG Internal Market and ServicesEuropean Commission
Priorities of the new Commission
• • New Boost for Jobs, Growth and • Investment
• • Deeper and Fairer Internal Market with a • Strengthened Industrial Base
• • Connected Digital Single Market
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Challenges facing the EU economy
• • Growing international competition, including in EU growth sectors (business services)
• • Barriers to internal market remain and growth potential of Single Market not fully exploited
• • Declining share of manufacturing in GDP
• • Capitalising on the digital revolution and potential of Industry 4.0
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New reality and new challenges
• • New structure of the Commission and internal reorganisation to better respond to future
challenges
• • Need to respond to calls for action from the MS:
• state of play of the Internal Market for Services
• revitalisation of industry
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Industry performing well, but at risk
Very competitive on international markets, with a trade surplus of over € 450 billion euro in 2013…
With a declining EU share of value added in the manufacturing sector worldwide and a loss of 3,5 mn jobs since 2007
but...
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Services input in the economy is growing
Services account for 71% of EU GDP and 67% of EU employment
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The share of manufacturing output in the economydecreases but the share of services increases (1995-2011)
Services are increasingly intertwined with manufacturing
Input/output links go in both directions:
• Services are important inputs for manufacturing with 40% services input into final manufactured goods (e.g., business services)
• Manufacturing is an important input to services (e.g., construction, transport services)
In addition, service providers and manufacturers are providing integrated services/goods solutions
Value added in manufacturing in the EU2011 (value chain approach)
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Europe needs is an Internal Market for Goods and Services, with a strengthened industrial base and a strong digital angle.
• Key ingredients:
• 2015 Single Market Strategy for goods, services and procurement
Renewed strategy for services, key sectors: business services, retail, construction
Single Market in products Smart procurement
• Smart and Clean Industry, key objectives: modernize and revitalize the European industrial sector; grasp the opportunities offered by new technologies
• Digital Single Market
These initiatives respond largely to the recommendations of the HLGBS8
Renewed Services Strategy
State of play:
•• Stakeholders' workshops and on-line consultation
•• Economic impact of remaining barriers
•Actions:
• Better enforcement of the Services Directive
• Renewed service strategy to tackle issues of legal framework fragmentation, administrative burden, insufficient information provision, lack of mutual recognition of standards and certificates.
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Single Market in Products
• • Enforcement of existing legislation
• • Simplification and Better Regulation
• Link between goods and services
• Extending the Single Market beyond EU borders
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Smart Procurement
• • support the transposition and implementation of the new legislative package
• • country and sector approach to identify real issues and tackle them
• • professionalization of public procurement and support to SMEs
• • emphasis on e-procurement
• • public procurement as a tool for the new EU industrial policy
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Smart and Clean Industry
•• Digitization and the inter-connectivity of traditional
industry•
• Integration of intelligent services industry
• Adoption of clean technologies and sustainability
• • Horizontal measures (access to finance, skills, business environment, internationalization)
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Digital Single Market• DSM VP Ansip, cooperation of several commissioners• aim to generate up to € 250 billion of additional growth• horizontal policy, covering all sectors of the economy and of
the public sector• level playing field and simplification for businesses • wider access for consumers
• Ambitious actions already in the first six months:
• modernising copyright rules • more ambition to the ongoing reform of telecoms rules• modernising and simplifying consumer rules for online
purchases
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Thank you!
Joanna [email protected]
Further informationInternal Market website:http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm
Stakeholders' questionnaire:http://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/businessexperiencesservices
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