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European Ready Mixed Concrete Organization

ERMCO

ERMCO, the European Ready Mixed Concrete Organization, is the federation of national associations for the ready-mixed concrete industry in Europe.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Barbara Bonvissuto (Director Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

17 Nov 2025 · Meeting with CEN/CENELEC presidents and ADG of CCMC

Meeting with Katharina Knapton-Vierlich (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and CEMBUREAU - The European Cement Association and

20 Feb 2025 · Discuss the CPR Acquis process and the next steps for the drafting of standardisation request for ready-mix concrete and its links with the standardisation request for cement, precast concrete and aggregates

Response to Amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 relating to emergency health response

18 Aug 2019

The European Ready Mixed Concrete Organization, ERMCO welcomes the amendment revising Annex VIII, which includes postponement of one year for consumer products. The postponement of the deadline by 12 months is urgently needed in order to carry out the necessary preparations for the electronic submissions. ERMCO has also appreciated the study on workability issues concerning the implementation of Annex VIII of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, which tries to solve practical application problems. However, we noted that the proposal of “comparable MIM” or a single UFI for groups of mixtures, has not been considered in the amend. Ready mixed concrete is a mixture composed by different components (cement, aggregates, additions (including inorganic pigmented, admixtures) and two of these (cement and admixtures) are Mixtures in Mixtures (MIM). In a medium-size concrete plant, there are almost 200 different products, produced on the base of specific mix designs by varying the concentration of the MIM components. Due to the limited concentration range of Tables 1 and 2 of Annex VIII, for every variation of the mix design, i.e. of the MIM components a new UFI is needed. The variation can be in terms of: - Different concentration of the components - Different supplier of the components Furthermore, the CLP applied to mixtures but in our case the mixture ceases to be one within a few hours after the truck leaves the plant. It is very difficult to manage hundreds UFI code in packaging and in submission while the MIM are equivalent. Having several suppliers for the same raw material is very important to avoid breaks or to control cost. With the concentration limitations of Annex VIII to CLP manufactures of ready mixed concrete should be obliged to provide daily a huge number of submissions and UFIs for the mixtures produced in a plant. The total number of plants in Europe in 2016 (ERMCO 2016 statistics, www.ermco.eu) was estimated greater than 12.000. If each of these has to submit even just the 10% of the minimum number of potential mixes i.e 15 UFIs/day the number of daily notifications will sum up to 180.000. For 48 working weeks/year and 5 days/week this means 240 x180.000 = 43,2 million of notifications per year. This makes no sense as the potential danger to health due to the use of ready mixed concrete related to the MIMs is almost the same whatever the cement content of the concrete. Having thousands of UFI for concrete will not help the poison centres and the person who has injured themselves may not have rapid access to the delivery ticket containing the UFI. ERMCO hopes that European Commission will solve these issues with a second amendment.
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