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Europacable is the voice of Europe’s leading wire and cable producers.

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Response to Report on the review of the Digital Decade Policy Programme

12 Dec 2025

Please find Europacable contribution to the review of the Digital Decade policy programme in the document attached.
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Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and

28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

28 Oct 2025 · High Level Dialogue with Industry executives on the implementation of CBAM.

Meeting with Pascal Arimont (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2025 · Cables and CBAM

Response to Commission Implementing Regulation on the list for the purposes of Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1252

24 Jul 2025

Europacable, the voice of Europes cable system manufacturers, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the public consultation on the implementing regulation of Article 26 of the Critical Raw Materials Act, focusing on national measures on circularity. The European cable system industry is particularly concerned by this regulation, as cables and wires are clearly identified in several parts of the annex, highlighting their strategic role in the critical raw materials value chain. In particular, concerning cables, we wish to formulate the following comments related to the items of paragraph 1 in Article 26: (a) Europacable fully supports the proposed measures to incentivise technological progress and resource efficiency in order to moderate the expected increase in Union consumption of critical raw materials. (b) While waste prevention should indeed be promoted, we call on the Commissions attention regarding reparation. Attempts to repair wires and cables should be excluded in order to maintain safety and continuation of operation. The reparation of an energy or telecommunication network, be it within a building, an infrastructure or a device, should always involve the replacement of the damaged wire or cable. (c) The European cable system manufacturers have the appropriate setup to handle the sorting and processing of cable waste to enable the recovery of contained copper and aluminium. All measures aiming at increasing collection from existing infrastructures, buildings or devices will support a wider access to recyclable raw materials. (d) Europacable has drafted a criterion for public procurement, regarding recycled content. This criterion is available on page 5 of the attached document. Europacable member companies are increasingly including recycled content in their production. (e) We fully support any measure that will increase the maturity of recycling technologies. However, regarding the substitution of critical raw materials, we wish to underline that given the high requirements for electrically conductive properties, a substitution of aluminium and copper does not stand as a short- or mid- term prospect. (i) Likewise, Europacable members fully support and apply Union quality standards for recycling processes of waste streams containing critical raw materials. We are looking forward to further contributing and stand at the disposal of the European Commission for any additional input on the above.
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Response to Revision of the Standardisation Regulation

18 Jul 2025

Europacable welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the European Commissions Call for Evidence in the context of its upcoming impact assessment on the revision of the Standardisation Regulation. Representing Europes leading cable system manufacturers, Europacable fully supports a well-functioning, inclusive, and industry-driven European standardisation system. However, we would like to highlight several challenges that continue to hinder the effectiveness and efficiency of the current framework, particularly from the perspective of industry stakeholders. First and foremost, we observe that the harmonisation process lacks ownership by the HAS consultants. The harmonisation process is the bridge that gaps the technical language of a test methodology or a product specification developed by the Technical Committees with the safety requirements laid down in the legislation. In this process each side should have a clear responsibility for the timely delivery of the harmonisation documentation (Annex ZZ in CENELEC). Against this background, Europacable provides the following recommendations: To give HAS consultants a clear responsibility of bridging the gap between the technical and legal language of the safety requirements when drafting the CENELEC Annex ZZ. To revise the current HAS consultant system providing a structured, transparent feedback mechanism, with reduced bureaucracy allowing HAS consultants to constructively facilitate the mutual goal of speedy delivery of harmonised standards. Beyond operational shortcomings, we are deeply concerned about structural pressures on the system. The growing number of standardisation requests has stretched the capacity of Standardisation Development Organisations (SDOs), while resources, both human and financial, have not kept pace. Larger companies do not see a return on investment for their standardisation activities while the risk of excluding SMEs from participation is more acute contradicting the Commissions commitment to inclusiveness. Participation of non-European players who benefit from state support and subsidies further undermines the balance of power. Against this background, Europacable provides the following recommendations: Avoid creating new standardisation requests for existing technology. Increase EU support for the growing costs of standardisation and harmonisation. Finally, the Commissions recent introduction of Common Specifications (CS) as an alternative mechanism to provide presumption of conformity raises serious concerns. While we understand the intent, we caution that CS may bypass the established standardisation process and industry expertise creating a parallel structure, diluting Europes leadership in global standardisation and increasing the risk of market fragmentation. Against this background, Europacable provides the following recommendations: CS must be developed in close collaboration with: o industry to ensure that solutions are practical, future-proof, and reflective of real-world needs. o international SDOs as international alignment in standardization is essential for global market access and cost control for European industries. Europacable is committed to working with the European Commission to ensure the revision of the Standardisation Regulation reinforces a transparent, inclusive, and well-resourced system. A strong, collaborative standardisation framework is vital for Europes competitiveness and global leadership, and we look forward to contributing to its modernisation and effectiveness.
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Meeting with Joachim Balke (Head of Unit Energy)

26 Jun 2025 · Upcoming EU policy initiatives, implementation of the Grid Action Plan

Meeting with Seán Kelly (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

14 May 2025 · Security and Resilience of subsea cables, power grid build out & interconnection

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

26 Feb 2025 · Energy Grids and energy infrastructure

Meeting with Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (Member of the European Parliament) and Future Cleantech Architects

4 Feb 2025 · Clean Industrial Deal

Meeting with Didier Millerot (Head of Unit Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

21 Jan 2025 · European Taxonomy

Meeting with Miguel Gil Tertre (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera Rodríguez) and WindEurope and

5 Dec 2024 · To discuss European wind industry

Meeting with Elena Sancho Murillo (Member of the European Parliament) and Connect Europe

22 Oct 2024 · Relevant issues to the ITRE Committee

Response to How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?

25 Jun 2024

Europacable welcomes Europes emphasis on enhancing the security and resilience of its telecommunication cable infrastructures, by recognizing the critical role of secured communication networks. Europacable member companies have the technology and the know how to contribute to enhancing the resilience and the sovereignty of Europes data infrastructures. This will be key to secure Europes strategic autonomy. Specifically, Europacable is committed to support the work of the Submarine Cable Infrastructure Expert Group. Europacable supports the vision set out in the White Paper How to master Europes digital infrastructure needs?. Specifically, measures to accelerate copper switch-off, promoting a full fibre environment able to meet the challenge of increasing connectivity while improving energy efficiency of the network. Submarine cable infrastructures are the backbone of global intercontinental communication and are an essential element to improve EUs digital autonomy and resilience. Europacable sides with the assessment of the European Commission described in the Whitepaper as well as the Recommendation on the security and resilience of submarine cable infrastructures. Europacable is committed to support the Submarine Cable Infrastructure Expert Group. We are ready to contribute with our industry expertise to enhance the security, resilience and sovereignty of Europes submarine cable infrastructures. By implementing the aboves recommendations collaboratively, Europe will strengthen its digital infrastructure resilience and ensure the continued reliability of submarine cable networks in an increasingly interconnected world. For further information please refer to the position attached.
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Meeting with Stefano Grassi (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson), Thor-Sten Vertmann (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson)

9 Apr 2024 · Grids infrastructure & RES connections

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

26 Feb 2024 · Clean Transition Dialogue on EGD Infrastructures

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy) and EPIA SolarPower Europe and

26 Feb 2024 · Clean Transition Dialogue on EGD Infrastructures

Meeting with Christian Doleschal (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

8 Feb 2024 · Discussion on the revised Construction Products Regulation (CPR)

Meeting with Adam Jarubas (Member of the European Parliament) and European Chemical Industry Council and

15 Nov 2023 · EFSW2023: Taking stock of progress on fire safety – what should the Commission and Parliament do to improve fire safety in Europe?

Meeting with Alin Mituța (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

20 Sept 2023 · Gigabit Infrastructure Act

Response to The reporting obligations during the transitional period of the carbon border adjustment mechanism.

3 Jul 2023

Europacable, the voice of Europes leading wire and cable manufacturers, welcomes the approach that is proposed in the draft Implementing Regulation, which is fair and provides sufficient flexibility for operators on the European Union market. We also would like to seize this opportunity to highlight major elements of our position on the CBAM: Aluminium power cables are a key technology to empower Europes decarbonisation and security of energy supplies. However, by strictly focusing on raw materials and not finished products with substantial aluminium content like power cables, the mechanism which currently excludes aluminium power cables from its scope could unwillingly distort competition between European manufacturers and importers of power cables, since imported aluminium power cables will not be subject to ETS costs. In addition, the lower cost of power cables manufacturing outside Europe will inadvertently stimulate imports of more carbon-intensive cables from outside the EU. A decreased competitiveness of the EU-manufactured aluminium power cables an essential component of the electricity grids and energy transition could impact the EUs ability to meet its 2050 decarbonisation goal. Imports of more carbon-intensive cables would result in carbon leakage, going against the very aim of the CBAM and related Green Deal goals. For these reasons, Europacable calls for the European Commission to include aluminium power cables as per CN 8544 in the CBAM scope as a matter of priority by the end of the transitional phase in December 2025. Additionally, and for the same reasons, we strongly recommend to delay the accounting of indirect emissions for aluminium until electricity is fully decarbonised within the Union.
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Meeting with Christian Linder (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

7 Sept 2016 · European cable industry/cable supply for power grid development in the EU