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Teknikföretagen

Teknikföretagen represents over 4,500 Swedish technology companies that develop high-tech products and services for global markets, accounting for more than one-third of Sweden's exports.

Lobbying Activity

Teknikföretagen calls for innovation-led growth in advanced materials

13 Jan 2026
Topic — The consultation seeks strategies to boost Europe's advanced materials research and production.
Message — The group advocates for broad innovation programs and specialized funding for small businesses to speed up commercialization. They emphasize that market interventions like stockpiling or export controls should remain a last resort.12
Why — Swedish companies would benefit from easier access to research infrastructure and lower administrative costs.3
Impact — Proponents of state intervention lose as the group warns such measures risk distorting markets.4
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Meeting with Tomas Tobé (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

28 Nov 2025 · Research Policy

Meeting with Arba Kokalari (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and Swedish Institute for Standards

21 Nov 2025 · Standardisation

Meeting with Adnan Dibrani (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

20 Nov 2025 · Inre marknad och standardiseringsfrågor

Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion) and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

5 Nov 2025 · Synpunkter på Kommissionens förslag om ståltullsmekanism

Meeting with Tomas Tobé (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Sept 2025 · Energy Policy

Meeting with Alice Teodorescu Måwe (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Sept 2025 · 2040 targets

Meeting with Heléne Fritzon (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Sept 2025 · klimatmål 2040, klimatpolitik

Meeting with Agnieszka Skonieczna (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

2 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on the Investments for the European competitiveness and the next MFF

Meeting with Dick Erixon (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2025 · Future MFF, R&D and industrial policies

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Mar 2025 · Chemical and climate policy

Meeting with Tomas Tobé (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Feb 2025 · Transport Policy

Teknikföretagen urges EU to strengthen market surveillance and simplify rules

31 Jan 2025
Topic — The initiative aims to further develop a single market that facilitates cross-border trade.
Message — Teknikföretagen calls for improved market surveillance and a multilingual information portal to simplify complex regulations. They also highlight the need for timely, harmonized industry standards to ensure global competitiveness.123
Why — Better enforcement would prevent Swedish exporters from being undercut by cheap, substandard foreign imports.4
Impact — Non-EU manufacturers exporting substandard goods would lose their unfair price advantage in Europe.5
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Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.

30 Jan 2025 · Digital infrastructure

Meeting with Tomas Tobé (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

27 Jan 2025 · Research Policy

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament) and Jernkontoret

9 Jan 2025 · Chemical policy

Meeting with Jonas Sjöstedt (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

13 Nov 2024 · Business

Meeting with Johan Danielsson (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Oct 2024 · Konkurrenskraft och arbetsmarknadspolitik

Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Sept 2024 · International Trade

Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Jul 2024 · Frågor rörande industrifrågor inför den kommande mandatperioden

Meeting with Emma Wiesner (Member of the European Parliament) and Technology Industries of Finland (Teknologiateollisuus ry)

15 Jul 2024 · Europeisk industripolitik med finska och svenska MEPs och företag

Meeting with Anna-Maja Henriksson (Member of the European Parliament) and Technology Industries of Finland (Teknologiateollisuus ry)

15 Jul 2024 · Upcoming mandate and Nordic research & innovation policy

Response to Options for support for R&D of dual-use technologies

29 Apr 2024

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Response to Enhancing research security in Europe

27 Dec 2023

The case of trusted research how to handle the risks? Collaborative industrial research conducted together with research institutes and universities is a crucial part of a strong European research and innovation system but is impacted by research security aspects. It is necessary to tackle the issue with precaution since global openness within research and innovation environments is important to maintain European innovation and therefore competitiveness. However, collaboration based on openness and interaction can be abused. A growing challenge is that dubious actors under false flags systematically exploit opportunities within research and innovation environments and collaborations to access key technologies and critical business information (corporate espionage). They can do this since the research and innovation environments where cooperation occurs often are closely connected to universities. Since universities work autonomously, setting their own rules and regulations in the matter, an oversight of individuals' activities, their affiliations, and access is limited and fragmented. This is a rising concern for research-intensive industrial companies that are dependent on close cooperation with academia. An example is that foreign researchers with ties to foreign military services may operate without undergoing background checks. Teknikföretagen the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries - is in favor of clear, coherent, and harmonized guidelines from the EU level if they do not add administrative burden for European companies. For European industry openness and international collaboration are key for securing international cooperation and technology development, and therefore the guidelines must be balanced and nuanced. Guidelines should cover both research and collaborative research before, during, and after a collaboration. It is helpful if there is a designated security officer who can address all security-related matters. Measures and procedures should also be documented in a security protection plan. Teknikföretagen favors a four-level approach suggested by the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova: Level 1: Awareness among individual researchers Level 2: Assessment and sectoral understanding at faculty and university management levels Level 3: Clear national policy guidance Level 4: Supportive European-level recommendations. Teknikföretagen considers that the ability to make assessments varies among different educational institutions, emphasizing the importance of providing support and assistance. Teknikföretagen sees the need for an advisory function (support hotline) at the national level that educational institutions and institutes can turn to for questions and advice in cases of uncertainty that require careful consideration. Teknikföretagen favors a nuanced approach to research collaboration. The use of extensive blacklists that prohibit collaboration with specific countries or companies owned by individuals from specific countries will cause more harm than good. *Teknikföretagen (the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries) is the primary representative for Swedish industry. In total, our 4,400 member companies constitute one third of Swedens exports. Our mission is to strengthen the competitiveness of member companies.
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Meeting with Arba Kokalari (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

7 Sept 2023 · Right to Repair

Response to Ecodesign for Sustainable Products - Product priorities

12 May 2023

Teknikföretagen (the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries) represents over 4 300 member companies that constitute one third of Swedens exports. Our member companies comprise both major, renowned, global corporations as well as a majority of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. A common denominator is that they develop technologically advanced products and services necessary for the twin transition, which are exported in fierce international competition thereby contributing to the transition on a global scale. Recommendations Teknikföretagen welcomes the initiative to establish a framework to reduce the environmental impact of the product life cycle and improve the EU's internal market for sustainable products. To ensure that the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) will be successful we strongly recommend to keep the product-by-product approach, it is a key to secure sustainable circular products with long life time. We recommend that the following key principles are respected when developing new ESPR requirements for products: To secure the functioning of the EU internal market, requirements must be harmonised at EU level. A detailed impact assessment must always be conducted. Effective enforcement and market surveillance must be ensured. New ESPR requirements for products must follow the New Legislative Framework (NLF). Requirements must be based on scientific assessment methods through recognised European or ISO /IEC/ITU international standards and must be reliable and verifiable. Requirements should be technology-neutral. Ecodesign requirements must continue to be set on a product-by-product basis. Unnecessary and burdensome duplication of efforts and double regulation both at horizontal and product levels should be avoided and consistency with other legislation ensured. ESPR requirements should make products more circular, be meaningful, easy to understand, comparable and verifiable. The scope of the ESPR delegated acts should be limited to the product properties that are the most decisive to the environmental performance of a product/product group. More in-depth studies of potential energy savings should be conducted. The European Commission should develop a ten years ESPR Working Plan instead of the current three years plan. The industry should be involved as early and as fully as possible in the process. Economic operators should be provided with sufficient time to prepare for the implementation of new ESPR requirements to ensure legal certainty and predictability. Last but not least, start small and simple to encourage political support for further measures.
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Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

9 May 2023 · Forced Labour

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President) and Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and

10 Mar 2023 · Social dialogue, EU policies in the employment and social area

Response to European Critical Raw Materials Act

25 Nov 2022

Please find attached the input from the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries (Teknikföretagen).
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Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

29 Sept 2022 · EU affairs: trade policy and social dialogue

Meeting with Geneviève Tuts (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)

27 Sept 2022 · Due diligence and whistle blower directive

Meeting with Colin Scicluna (Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica), Mattia De' Grassi (Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica)

27 Sept 2022 · Upcoming Swedish Presidency

Meeting with Emma Wiesner (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

2 Sept 2022 · Möte om F-gaser

Meeting with Jakop G. Dalunde (Member of the European Parliament)

30 May 2022 · Circulair Economy; European Chips Act; Sustainable Products Initiative

Meeting with Jessica Stegrud (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

30 May 2022 · Industrial policy

Meeting with Emma Wiesner (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Apr 2022 · Panelsamtal Fit for 55

Meeting with Emma Wiesner (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Apr 2022 · Aktuellt inom energi- och hållbarhetsfrågor

Meeting with Abir Al-Sahlani (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Apr 2022 · Möte med Klas Wåhlberg och Maria rosendahl angående lönetransparens och plattformsdirektivet

Meeting with Arba Kokalari (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Apr 2022 · Upcoming internal market legislative files

Meeting with Renate Nikolay (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

4 Apr 2022 · Sustainable Corporate Governance

Meeting with Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Kim Jorgensen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

4 Apr 2022 · Digital files and strategic autonomy

Meeting with Mirzha De Manuel (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)

11 Mar 2022 · Sweden social model, the role of social partners, and interactions with EU legislation

Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

31 Jan 2022 · Industrial policy, internal market

Meeting with Asa Webber (Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson)

16 Nov 2021 · social taxonomy, due diligence in value chains, state aid rules and Echo Design Directive

Response to Standardisation Strategy

13 Jul 2021

Please find feedback from the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries (Teknikföretagen) attached.
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Response to Instrument to deter and counteract coercive actions by third countries

16 Mar 2021

The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries (Teknikföretagen) endorses the submitted comment from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.
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Response to Climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy

18 Dec 2020

Teknikföretagen (the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries) is the representative for 4,200 Swedish industry companies. We welcome the opportunity to respond to this consultation and support the objective of creating common definitions for green investment. But we also have concrete improvement proposals in the attched file. Best regards Jenny Sandahl, Teknikföretagen
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Response to Revision of the Communication on important projects of common European interest

18 Dec 2020

Please find feedback from the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries (Teknikföretagen) enclosed.
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Response to Sustainable Products Initiative

16 Nov 2020

We thank the European Commission for the opportunity to provide comments to the inception Impact Assessment for the Sustainable Product Initiative. Teknikföretagen welcomes the EU Commission's action plan on circular economy and the initiative on Sustainable Product Initiative as it has the potential to facilitate a functioning market in Europe. Many Swedish businesses are already at the forefront of changing from a linear to a circular economy and the rest will follow. We would welcome a common ambitious, but strict harmonized strategy in Europe and wants to take a consultative role in its development. We fully acknowledge the importance of sustainability in the broader sense, as defined in the IIA were sustainability means social, economic and environmental sustainability. In our comments below please keep in mind that we have chosen to only focus on environmental and economic sustainability and have at this point not taken the social dimension of product policy into account. We welcome future dialogue on the topic and recommend aligning the policy discussion with the ongoing SCG consultation, and the anticipated upcoming due diligence developments. General comments For industry, circular economy means achieving higher resource efficiency and extending the financial relationship with the customer. Swedish industry is a central part of foreign trade, which means that the circular economy needs to be seen in a global perspective. All regulatory interventions in Europe should take into account the fact that industry often operates in many countries within the European union and the rest of the world as part of their core business. Industry investments in the circular business models need to be designed to maximizing the value and profitability of products over time. Trade of products and services is based on global value chains and is central to companies. This affects the possibilities of creating a circular economy. The opportunities to create circular material flows and services are thus based on international conditions. Therefore, the technology companies see the circular economy as an international issue also from a political view. A guiding principle for future policy intervention in Europe is the The stronger the EU single market, the better circularity in Europe. It is important to secure the functioning of the single market, one of the EU’s success stories and major achievements in Europe. The single market has clearly contributed to an improved prosperity and more opportunities for European citizens and businesses. Therefor it is crucial to ensure a harmonized approach throughout the EU of the various circular economy measures. We call the Commission to follow the better regulation principles and to conduct impact assessments for all new announced initiatives to make sure that the proposed measures are proportionate to the intended objectives. Impact assessments must make clear the balance between environmental results and investments providing a cost-efficiency picture of different measures. After that we recommend starting with the measures with the best cost efficiency rating and highest impact. Ensure that the product sustainability requirements will be harmonized at EU level. Product requirements as for example information requirements should be technology neutral and not hinder the development of new innovations, business models and products. Any new circular economy measure, especially in the area of product policy must be accompanied by robust market surveillance and effective enforcement. Standards are essential complementing tools to EU legislation for a Circular economy and they enhance the sustainability of products and materials. There must be a balance between environment, safety and quality aspects. In addition, standardization needs to be market relevant and developed on due time. Policy makers should focus on products that all together stand for a great environmental impact so
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Response to Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

1 Apr 2020

The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries welcomes and supports a global decarbonization. Climate change is a global challenge that must be handled in an international context, and we welcome an EU wide and international collaboration. We also believe that European companies are well positioned to be front runners in the green transition. While understanding the motive behind carbon border adjustment measures and agreeing with the objective to minimize carbon leakage, all kinds of border measures can result in unintended consequences. Carbon border measures introduced only on raw materials such as steel and aluminum would neither target nor affect other materials and goods produced outside the EU. This could result in making such materials and goods produced in Europe more expensive, and less favorable compared to imported goods. To create an unequal playing field for European industries and producers of materials and goods could result in increased risk of carbon leakage, and put European competitiveness and jobs at risk. Consequently, a thorough analysis of the implications of carbon border adjustment measures are needed to understand the impact on the European industry, to be able to introduce effective carbon reduction measures while respecting international trade obligations and promoting competitiveness of European corporations. In order to avoid that clean European production is moved to other parts of the world with less favorable energy mix and less strict environmental legislation. EU produced materials and goods may become less competitive both locally and internationally, while products from outside the EU would become more profitable, this could, in turn, add to the reasons to place manufacturing outside the EU. I.e., both taking jobs out of the EU and ultimately also leading to an increase in carbon emissions (i.e. carbon leakage). The main objective of a carbon border adjustment is of course to fight climate change by avoiding carbon leakage, but it must also be to keep a level playing field for all sectors. It is important that price increases on raw materials do not negatively impact firms further down the value chain. This could lead to carbon leakage in other sectors of the economy. The topic of unintended negative consequences further down in the value chain are complex and need to be thoroughly analyzed before introducing border adjustment measures.
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Response to Commission Regulation amending the CLP Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 and correcting Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/669

8 Feb 2019

Teknikföretagen (the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries) welcomes this opportunity to comment on the proposed classification regarding cobalt. We represent almost 4000 companies and many are using cobalt containing materials and products such as steel, hard metal and batteries. Teknikföretagens understanding is that parts of the proposal for a revised classification for cobalt metal (Carc 1B (all routes of exposure) and Muta 2) would need more investigations as new epidemiological data has become available. Teknikföretagen believes that the carcinogenicity classification should be by inhalation only, as the weight of evidence does not support an “all routes of exposure” conclusion. This is supported by the result of extensive epidemiological studies, see the referenced JOEM article below. The studies cover over 33 000 workers in 5 countries and show that oral and dermal exposure routes are very unlikely to increase the cancer risk. The studies also did not find evidence that the level of exposure, experienced by the workers, increased risks of lung cancer mortality nor did they find evidence of increased risks from any other causes of death. Moreover, the results indicate existence of a threshold value for carcinogenicity. We also believe that the proposed classification for mutagenicity differs from non-mutagenic conclusions drawn by OECD CoCAM SIAM, Canada and Australia*. JOEM, Article based on research from several universities https://journals.lww.com/joem/Fulltext/2017/12000/Mortality_Among_Hardmetal_Production_Workers_.24.aspx OECD CoCAM SIAM https://hpvchemicals.oecd.org/ui/handler.axd?id=b789fd1c-bab3-433c-9f47-3cbd49042976 The Canadian Chemicals Management Plan assessment https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/chemical-substances/substance-groupings-initiative/cobalt.html Australia NICNAS IMPA https://www.nicnas.gov.au/chemical-information/imap-assessments/imap-assessment-details?assessment_id=1311
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