Study on the Competitiveness of EU Eco-industry

The study was commissioned by the DG Enterprise's Unit for Sustainable Industrial Policy and carried out by a consortium. It was published in October 2009.

The goal of this study was to perform a competitiveness screening of the EU eco-industries in order to identify factors which need to be addressed in the industrial competitiveness policy for eco-industries based on a quantitative economic foundation. The competitiveness screening identified those framework conditions and possible market failures that are most important for indusrial competitiveness. An important elelment of the study was the analysis of eco-industry's supply chains.

The report is published in two parts. The first part provides the main results of the analysis for the EU eco-industries as a whole and cross-cutting policy issues. The second part provides a review of particular eco-industries that have been perceived as core EU eco-industries for this study:

• Recycled materials / recycling
• Renewable energy
• Sustainable construction 
• Air pollution control
• Environmental technology providers

Downloads

• Study on the competitiveness of the EU eco-industry (Part I)   (4,1 Mb)
• Study on the competitiveness of the EU eco-industry (Part II)   (1,2 Mb)

Contact: Sustainable Industrial policy/Unit B1