This document outlines an integrated industrial policy for the European Union to promote competitiveness and sustainability in the globalized economy. It discusses the importance of industry for jobs and exports. The policy aims to improve the business environment, strengthen the single market, promote innovation, sustainability, and facilitate industrial change. Key actions include improving access to finance, developing low carbon technologies, and targeted support for strategic sectors. Progress will be monitored through annual reporting on competitiveness across EU members.

1. An Integrated Industrial Policy for
the Globalisation Era

2. Importance of industry
• Manufacturing industry and associated
services creates wealth and jobs
through high productivity
• More than 50% of private sector
employment
• 75% of exports and 80% of R&D
• Industry solution-provider to tackle
societal challenges

3. A fresh approach to Industrial Policy
• Promoting competitiveness and
sustainability
• Integrating full range of EU policies
• Member States: improving the business
environment
• Regular reporting competitiveness
policies and performance

4. Key actions
• Improving the business environment
• Strengthening the Single Market
• Industrial innovation strategy
• Promoting Sustainability
• Facilitating industrial change
• Capitalising on globalisation
• Improving sectoral policy frameworks
• Member State competitiveness

5. Improving the business environment
• Smart Regulation:
 competitiveness-proofing
 ex post fitness checks
• Improving Access to finance
 SME finance
 Impact of financial reforms

6. Strengthening the Single Market
• Single Market
 Improving market surveillance
 Creating a market for business services
 IPR enforcement
• Improving infrastructure
 address transport and energy bottlenecks
 continue to liberalise energy markets
• Faster standardisation

7. Industrial innovation policy
• More timely development and
commercialisation of technologies
• Innovation in traditional manufacturing
• E-skills for advanced users
• Encouraging clusters and better cross-
border co-operation

8. Promoting Sustainability
• Develop 2050 Low Carbon Roadmap
• Monitor voluntary industry initiatives
• Sustainable Industrial Policy: eco-design
• Eco-innovation
• Energy-intensive industries
• Raw material initiative

9. Facilitating industrial change
• Mainly responsibility of social partners
• Consult on European framework for
restructuring
• Globalisation Adjustment Fund
• Cohesion policy and Structural Funds
• Rescue/restructuring Guidelines

10. Capitalising on Globalisation
• Impact assessment of trade negotiation
mandates and ex post analysis
• Pursue market access and close
monitoring of partner trade policies
• International regulatory co-operation
• Closer relationship with neighbourhood
• Strategy on access to raw materials

11. Targeted Approach to Sectors
• Space policy
• Clean and energy-efficient vehicles
• Health and Pharmaceuticals
• Sustainable construction
• Bio-based markets
• Chemicals and construction innovation
• Cultural and creative industries

12. Governance - 1
• Annual report on EU and MS industrial
competitiveness and performance
• Quantitative approach:
 Most relevant, available and timely indicators
covering all dimensions of competitiveness
 27 country profiles compare national
performances with EU averages (measured in
standard deviations).
• Qualitative approach:
 27 country chapters with a detailed analysis
based on quantitative and qualitative
information.

13. Governance - 2
• Horizontal chapter with key findings for all
competitiveness dimensions
• Peer reviews and good practice on:
 Competitiveness-proofing/ smart regulation
 Small businesses through SBA
 Access to finance
 Market surveillance and IPR enforcement
 Key enabling technologies
 Environmental technologies

14. The processes - 1
• Europe 2020:
 contribute to the Annual Growth Survey for
the next Spring European Council
(December 2010 - January 2011)
 Member States present their structural
policies in the framework of their National
Reform Programmes in April 2011
 contribute to the integrated economic
surveillance (April –June 2011)

15. The processes - 2
• Industrial Competitiveness (article 173
TFEU)
 Draw and adopt implementation plans for the
exchange of best practice and peer reviews – start
implementation
 Fact finding missions in Member States
 Assessment of National Reform Programmes
 2011 Report to Council on Member States
competitiveness and on progress made under the
Industrial policy flagship (November 2011)
 Council issues «guidelines» on industrial policy