The European Steel Association
Acronym: EUROFER
General Information
Identification Code: 93038071152-83
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: ASBL
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 2/17/2009
Last Update: 3/6/2024
EP Accredited Number: 8
Mission & Interests
Goals: EUROFER represents the total of steel production in the European Union. Its members are steel companies and national steel federations throughout the EU. The major steel companies and national steel federations in Switzerland and Turkey are associate members.
The objectives of EUROFER are to provide information, services and guidance to it's members related to European and international policy affairs and political, economic and market analysis, and providing guidance for the implementation of EU legislation. These services consist, inter alia, in the
- exchange of information on all issues of common interest, particularly as regards market developments, employment and the global development of the steel industry, and this in full compliance with competition rules.
- co-operation in the fields of energy and raw materials supply, transport, environmental protection, financial and legal questions, promotion and technical research, and, more generally, by means of all studies (...)
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Business and industry
- Climate action
- Competition
- Economy, finance and the euro
- Education and training
- Employment and social affairs
- Energy
- Environment
- External relations
- Research and innovation
- Single market
- Trade
- Transport
Levels of Interest:
- global
- european
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: All topics that matter to the EU steel industries.
Further information related to EUROFER's Departments, position papers and EUROFER staff can be found on our website.
Examples of topics followed and input to EU consultations:
• CO2 regulation for cars and vans
• Construction Products Regulation
• Ambient Air Quality
• Critical Raw Materials
• End-of-life vehicles directive
• Waste Shipment Regulation
• Sustainable Products Policy
• Chemicals strategy for sustainability
• Industrial Emissions Directive & Industrial Emissions Portal
• Trade Policy
• Sustainable finance taxonomy
• Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
• EU ETS
• Environmental and energy aid guidelines
• EU ETS state aid guidelines
• EU product policy
• Renewable Energy directive
• Energy Efficiency directive
• Energy taxation directive
• Innovation Fund
• REFIT Water Framework Directive
• Interface between chemical, product and waste legislation
Communication Activities: All policy & position papers and publications can be found at eurofer.eu website. Below examples of events held and some of the publications:
1) EUROFER Annual Report
2) European Steel in Figures:Brochure including key facts and figures of the European Steel Industry.
3) The European Steel Day: Annual event hosted by the European Steel Association. It provides a common voice for the industry and underlines the benefits of steel as a material. This annual event is a unique occasion for representatives from the steel sector to discuss the competitiveness and main challenges of the steel industry in Europe.
4) Seminar and webinar on the state of the EU steel market
5) Webinar: EU trade policy under pressure: The example of steel
6) EUROFER Engage webinars: Circular Economy Action Plan: from proposal to reality; Making sense of EU climate policy; Industrial Emissions Directive
7) Webinar: The Green Deal and European Steel
8) Workshops for policy makers on Waste Shipment regulation and Industrial Emissions directive
9) Parliamentary breakfast event on the Waste Shipment regulation
10) Steel and the Circular Economy (2016)
11) Steel, the Backbone of Sustainability in Europe (2016)
12) Ecofys study : Carbon costs for the steel sector in Europe post-2020 (2016)
13) The impact of the European steel industry on the EU economy by Oxford Economics/EUROFER
14) The Low carbon roadmap pathways to a CO2 neutral European Steel Industry, November 2019
EU Supported Forums and Platforms: Sherpa Group#E03326/4#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=100867 #MEMBER #C#IndustryReinforcing and prestressing steel for concrete (and ancillaries). Post tensioning kits#E03776/7#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=103032 #OBSERVER #C#IndustryWorking Group "Defining Critical Raw Materials"#E01353/2#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=100173 #MEMBER #C#IndustryHigh Level expert Group on energy-intensive industries#E03326#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3326 #MEMBER #C#IndustryInnovation Fund Expert Group#E03593#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3593 #MEMBER #C#IndustryEnvironmental Footprint Technical Advisory Board#E03710#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3710 #MEMBER #C#IndustryExpert Group on the exchange of information on Best Available Techniques related to industrial emissions (IED Article 13 Forum)#E02611#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2611 #MEMBER #C#IndustryRaw Materials Supply Group#E01353#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=1353 #MEMBER #C#IndustryCommission operational expert group of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials #E03392#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3392 #MEMBER #C#Academia/Research#IndustryGas consuming industries' feedback on AggregateEU#E03865/3#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=104112 #OBSERVER #C#IndustryCommission expert group on climate change policy #E03590#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3590 #MEMBER #C#IndustryMetals Sectors -subgroup 6#E03326/6#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=104152 #MEMBER #C#IndustryInformal Expert Group on the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)#E03927#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3927 #MEMBER #C#IndustrySteel Advisory Group#X00808#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=808 #MEMBER #B#IndustryTrade Contact Group#E02134#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2134 #MEMBER #C#Industry
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Competitive European Industry: long-term and sustainable investment,Unofficial groupings
Head Office
Address: Avenue de Cortenbergh, 172
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
Phone: [object Object]
EU Office
Address: Avenue de Cortenbergh, 172
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
Phone: [object Object]
Financial Data
New Organisation: false
Closed Year: [object Object]
Current Year: [object Object]
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 2
Members25 Percent: 6
Members50 Percent: 2
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 10
Members F T E: 2.700000047683716
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: See EUROFER members list: https://www.eurofer.eu/about-steel/#European-Steel-Association-members
Organisation Members: 1) Metals for Buildings: http://www.metalsforbuildings.eu/
2) Construction for Products: http://www.construction-products.eu/
3) Alliance for Energy Intensive Industries (no website)
4) Alliance for a Competitive European Industry: http://www.businesseurope.eu/Content/Default.asp?PageID=605
5) World Steel Association: https://www.worldsteel.org/
6) European Shippers' Council: http://europeanshippers.eu/
7) AEGIS Europe: http://www.aegiseurope.eu/
8) Industry4Europe https://www.industry4europe.eu/
9) Industrial Emissions Alliance (no website)
10) Alliance for Sustainable Management of Chemical Risk ASMoR: https://asmor.eu/