Publications

In September 2022 the European Commission published their proposal for the so called Cyber Resilience Act. The ambitious piece of legislation aims at raising the overall resilience level of products…

Rechargeable batteries serve as power sources for safety lighting and safety power supply systems. It is essential that they function reliably. If the power source is not available or only available…

From 1 March 2023, tier 2 of the EU Ecodesign Regulation for electronic displays, e.g. TV sets, will come into force. This will be accompanied by new, stricter minimum requirements for the energy…

ZVEI is strongly aligned with the objectives of the Media Freedom Act (MFA). Protecting media freedom and strengthening the EU internal market are crucial cornerstones of a strong and resilient…

The increasing number of legal and also customer-specific requirements on the content of certain substances in materials and products can only be managed through effective information management…

Classical emergency lighting is designed for power failure to illuminate escape routes and to mark them with escape signs. This assumes that the shortest escape route is the decisive one and that it…

At the end of March, the EU Commission presented a draft for an extended Ecodesign Regulation. We welcome that the EU Commission continues to pursue the ecodesign approach. The Ecodesign Directive…

China has developed into a self-confident, politically ambitious and economically strong world power. China's success is based on a different system of rights and values than those of Western…

In the next decades, Europe's downstream industries will need both high-performance processors in smaller structure sizes and power semiconductors, sensors or microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)…

Standardised Submodel of the Asset Administration Shell

Representatives from mechanical engineering and the process industry as well as the fields of classification and standardisation have joined…