Press Release

Eurovent position on the Clean Industrial Deal

13 February 2025

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Brussels, 14 February 2025. Eurovent calls for the recognition of the HVACR sector in the Clean Industrial Deal and related policies, to preserve the industry’s competitiveness.

The European Commission in its new mandate is taking the competitiveness challenge seriously. The recently published 2025 Commission work programme has outlined some helpful first measures to address the major structural obstacles that make it hard for European industries to compete.

However, Eurovent is expressing its concerns about the tendency in the EU to pick ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ – identifying the industries that are deemed ‘strategic’ enough to receive attention and support. Although the HVACR industry has partly benefitted from this treatment, as heat pumps were recognised as a strategic net-zero technology, it fails to recognise the links and interconnections between technologies and sectors. No industry exists in isolation.

Eurovent Deputy Secretary General, Mr Stijn Renneboog stated: “Today, we call for the recognition of the entire HVACR sector – including but not limited to heat pumps – in the Clean Industrial Deal. This policy framework will have to deliver for the HVACR industry, as it will have to for other industries, in recognition of the important contribution our sector makes to quality of life, to the EU’s net-zero ambitions, and to European prosperity “

The Eurovent paper on the recognition of the HVACR sector in the Clean Industrial Deal reiterates the call from its Manifesto to create an industrial strategy that deepens the Single Market, lifts internal trade barriers and creates an improved ‘Better Regulation’ agenda that is mindful of its impact on competitiveness. The paper emphasises that an innovative and competitive European HVACR industry is essential to the European economy and the EU’s net zero industry ambitions.

The Eurovent paper can be downloaded from the Eurovent website.

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