Euralarm with the European Committee ran a conference in Brussels, ‘Ensuring a Safer Europe for Citizens and Business’.
Members of the European Commission discussed the security and safety market with industry authorities. The conference was an exchange of thoughts about the market and ways to create a more open but regulated market. Over 50 participants, coming from the European Commission, European Parliament, media and industry, attended.
Speakers from the European Committee to the conference were Christian Ehler, Member of the European Parliament, Graham Willmott, Head of Unit for Policy and Research in Security, in the European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise, Christoph Kautz, Deputy Head of Unit for Policy and Research in Security, in the European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise and Dr Jerneja Jug, from the Services Economic Analysis Unit in the European Commission.
Among the contributors from the industry were René Jungbluth, CEO Fire and Security Systems at Siemens and Laurent de Longvilliers, Director General at Delta Security Solutions. Contributions from Euralarm to the conference were delivered by Marc Chabaud, Euralarm President, Rolf Sigg, Vice President of Euralarm and Chairman of its Security Section and Enzo Peduzzi, Chairman of the Services Section in Euralarm.
The conference was moderated by Michael Bewerunge, Political Correspondent at German broadcaster ZDF.
After the half day conference, it was concluded that Euralarm will continue its engagement with the Commission, but that there are still a number of difficulties remaining for the European security industry and for a real pan-European market. One of the answers to the challenges facing the industry is a pan-European certification, according to the alarms body. The group suggests it is necessary to speed up the certification processes. One other topic discussed in detail was the way to overcome the fragmentation of the security industry.
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