UEIL News
UEIL Industry Statistics Committee (UISC) The newly created UEIL Industry Statistics Committee – UISC – has had a very productive first month of operation and was able to publish the first issue of the UEIL Industry Statistics in October 2017. The first of what will become annual reports on lubricant demand in the European Union covers the years 2006-2016 and 18 European Countries. The publication includes European market statistics where official data from countries exists as well as estimates based on a sophisticated algorithm where official data are not available.
It is part of UEIL’s mission to provide reliable sector statistics to support decision makers and to deepen the understanding of the European lubricants market. Apu Gosalia of Fuchs Petrolub in his role as UISC Chairman together with the UISC team delivered on the promise of publishing market figures for the most recent full calendar year in the consecutive year for the first time.
The electronic data underpinning the market summary publication is now also available. Should you require further information, do not hesitate to contact us at
secretariat@ueil.org
Fiscal issues The European Commission is reviewing the Energy Taxation Directive that was withdrawn by the European Commission in 2015. The European Commission hired an external agency (Deloitte) to prepare a technical study. UEIL will provide its input to Deloitte and will highlight that through the inclusion of lubes within the Directive but with a specific exemption as was the case in the previous directives 92/12/EC, 92/81/EC and 92/82/ EC a real level playing field can be achieved, as it will mean that national taxation on lubes will be abolished.
In addition, UEIL will set up meetings in Q3 2017 with the technical experts of Deloitte to explain more in detail its position.
In Q4 of this year UEIL will also meet the Fiscal Attaches of the Permanent Representations of UK, The Netherlands, Spain, France, Belgium and Slovakia to guarantee that a blocking minority at Council level remains in place against the inclusion of lubes under EMCS.
HSE Update
The HSE committee is still concerned about the relative low numbers of registered substances. Only 11.500 substances are registered under REACH so far (out of them 4500 intermediates) and there are only a few months left to complete registration. We encourage lube blenders to ask suppliers of base fluids and additives if they have fulfilled their obligations. The picture for biocides is not much better: although 25 biocides are registered for the use in metalworking fluids, more than 1/3 of them are so called formaldehyde releasers and two of them (MBO and HPT) will be classified as CMR 1B and cannot be used as biocide, if there is no derogation. Since this may affects all formaldehyde releasers in future, UEIL supports biocide manufacturers here in order to maintain a broad spectrum of biocides.
Importer or Downstream User that places mixtures labeled as dangerous (e.g. health hazards) on the market have to submit information on composition to poison centres, for industrial mixtures from 2024. For industrial used mixtures, a limited set of data is sufficient if there is a 24/7 hotline available. We will observe and discuss developments here.
The Ecolabel is under its first revision since 2005. Members of the HSE group are involved and influenced the revision. Key aspects are different criteria on bioaccumulation, biodegradation and also new lubricants to be included.
Sustainability aspects of lube production, use and waste/recycling become more important for our industry. End users look after more sustainable products to minimise the ecologic footprint of their products, which includes also lubricants used for production or remain in the product. Also legislation looks more and more after energy efficient manufacturing, and lube manufacturers may save a lot of money when improving energy efficiency. VSI started a survey to quantify the energy and water consumption of grease, oil and MWF production. This project is currently in a test phase and will be (after successful test phase completion) extended then to all interested lube manufacturers in Europe. A questionnaire was developed to retrieve data on energy and water consumption (anonymously). The data will be collected by a third party who will do a statistical evaluation, the results of the evaluation will be submitted to the participants.
ATI Campaign – trilogue stage The Commission proposal for a regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers is currently in trilogue stage (negotiations between European Parliament and Council with the European Commission as arbiter), with a view to concluding negotiations before the end of this year.
Since the start of the trilogues in July, UEIL has been actively engaging with Members States, the European Commission and the European Parliament as the representative of the lubricants industry and one of the key players in the automotive aftermarket. The UEIL goals in this campaign are twofold:
• To clarify the definition of vehicle RMI, particularly regarding fluids
• To require OEMs to give access to RMI before the vehicle is placed on the market.
However, with the end of the year approaching fast room for manoeuvre is limited as the institutions work to finalise this file.
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LUBE MAGAZINE NO.142 DECEMBER 2017
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