UEIL News
Fiscal issues The European Commission is currently reviewing the Energy Taxation Directive that was withdrawn by the European Commission in 2015 (as the file was blocked in Council) and the European Commission will publish a revised Energy Taxation Directive after the nomination of the new European Commission in November 2019. UEIL hopes that through a revised Energy Taxation Directive under the new European Commission, a real level playing field can be achieved for the lubricants market in Europe.
Related to UEIL’s objective to prevent the inclusion of lubes under EMCS, certain Member States expressed their concern on increased fraud with lubes in Europe and are once again increasing the pressure to include lubes under EMCS. UEIL will continue its outreach to the Fiscal Attachés of the Permanent Representations of the EU Member States in the coming weeks to express its concern. However, it is clear that under this European Commission (mandate ends in October 2019) no EU actions are foreseen.
Finally, UEIL is lobbying to extend the current duty suspension on the import of Group II and Group III base oil into the European Union that is currently negotiated by the EU Member States within the Quota Working Group.
Technical Committee The last UEIL Technical Committee meeting was held on 22 May 2019 in Brussels. The next meeting will take place on 2 October.
The Technical Committee is currently investigating: • Industrial • Off Road • PCMO • HDDO
• Two Stroke
4 cases 1 case 6 cases 3 cases 1 case
The Technical and Competition Committees recently issued in 2018-2019 the following OEM Bulletins: Jan-2019 Jan-2019
Liebherr Volvo Trucks 56 LUBE MAGAZINE NO.153 OCTOBER 2019
UEIL Sustainability Task Force Takes Off The UEIL Sustainability Task Force was officially launched on 27 March 2019 during its first meeting in Brussels. Members of the Task Force gathered for a full day of meetings and took this opportunity to introduce themselves and the sustainability strategy of their respective companies, to start an initial discussion on how UEIL should take this concept on board.
At its Annual Congress in Budapest in 2018, UEIL had announced the formation of a Sustainability Task Force charged with developing a framework to define, develop and measure sustainability in the European lubricants industry. The formation had been introduced by Apu Gosalia, Vice-President for Sustainability (CSO) & Global Intelligence at FUCHS Petrolub, who chairs the Task Force and who explained that the group should work proactively on requirements that the European Union is already beginning to introduce for other industries. The membership of the UEIL Sustainability Task Force was designed to fulfill certain criteria and prerequisites and is therefore: • composed of EU-headquartered companies; • representative of the whole lubricants value chain, including additive suppliers, base oil suppliers, lubricant blenders, and customers;
• composed of companies that have proved to be willing to engage in the sustainability debate; • representative of a mix of European countries.
Company members of the Task Force include BASF Fuels & Lubricant Solutions, CRODA, EVONIK Oil Additives, LANXESS, NESTE, NYNAS, INEOS, VISCOLUBE, FUCHS Petrolub, BLASER Swisslube, RS Clare, CIPELIA, NOWAL Chimica, BOSCH and BMW. The Task Force will evolve into a fully-fledged committee of the Association at a later stage.
In the morning session participants were invited to proceed to a tour de table to introduce themselves, their companies, and their companies’ sustainability strategy. The first exchanges, presentation slides, and discussions on the way forward were very fruitful, open, and targeted in the same direction. In the
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