Euralarm successfully organized Security Conference
Euralarm organized in co-operation with the European Committee a conference in Brussels titled ‘Ensuring a Safer Europe for Citizens and Business’.
Members of the European Commission discussed the security & safety market together with leading industry authorities.
The conference was an exchange of thoughts about the market situation and ways to create a more open but regulated market for the benefit of European citizens. Over 50 participants, coming from the European Commission, European Parliament, media and industry, attended the Euralarm Conference. Speakers from the European Committee to the conference were Mr. Christian Ehler, Member of the European Parliament, Mr. Graham Willmott, Head of Unit for Policy and Research in Security, in the European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise, Mr. 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 Mr. René Jungbluth, CEO Fire and Security Systems at Siemens and Mr. Laurent de Longvilliers, Director General at Delta Security Solutions. Contributions from Euralarm to the conference were delivered by Mr. Marc Chabaud, Euralarm President, Mr. Rolf Sigg, Vice President of Euralarm and Chairman of its Security Section and Mr. Enzo Peduzzi, Chairman of the Services Section in Euralarm.
The conference was moderated by Michael Bewerunge, Journalist and Political Correspondent at ZDF.
After the half day conference, it was concluded that Euralarm will continue its engagement with the European 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. But therefore it is necessary to speed up the certification processes. One other topic that was discussed in detail was the way to overcome the fragmentation of the security industry. For sure, this topic will remain on the agenda for the next couple of years.
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by the Editorial Staff
