European Chemical Employers Group

EU Legislative Interests

European Green Industrial Deal Competitiveness, RDI (Research, Development, and Innovation) Management of change, with particular attention to the impact of digitalisation and sector-specific policies Sustainable employment and career development in light of demographic change Gender equality and diversity Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) European Pillar of Social Rights Training and lifelong learning, including identifying future skills needs and skills mismatches (e.g., EU Skills Agenda, EU Talent pool) Labour mobility and workforce migration Monitoring and contributing to industrial, energy, and climate policies Digital transformation in the workplace Just Transition Quality Jobs Roadmap Subcontracting practices Data and AI regulations

Communication Activities

Recent achievements: - Social partners’ joint statement on fair employment of Third Country Nationals in subcontracting chains (2025) - Joint statement: Call for action on STEM Talents for the EU Competitiveness (2025) - Joint employers statement: Revision of Regulation 883/2004 on the Coordination of Social Security Systems - Prior notification and the need for digitalisation (2025) - Joint statement on EU Talent Pool (2025) - Joint statement on eDeclaration (2025) - Joint Statement on Streamlining ESG and Due Diligence (2025) - Position Paper: Quality Traineeship Initiative (2024) - Position Paper: The impact of teachers’ shortage on the European chemical industry (2024) - Position Paper: European Works Councils: Continue and modernize proven cooperation (2024) - European employers' statement on the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on quality traineeships (2024) - Joint statement: "Towards EU due diligence rules that work for all" (2024) - Joint statement on the Report on the application and implementation of the Posting Directive (2024) - Press release: STEM Talents for the EU Competitiveness Compass – Reclaiming the EU competitive edge (2025) - Press release: Clean Industrial Deal Summit (2025) - Press release: European employers unveil the European Employers' Institute (2024) - Press release: ECEG-Ceemet-industriAll Europe joint event “STEM strategy: from the EU to the regional levels” (2024) - Press release: “Antwerp Declaration for a European Industrial Deal”: EU industries' crucial actions to boost competitiveness, resilience and sustainability (2024) - Press release: ECEG becomes an official campaign partner of the EU OSHA’s ‘Safe and healthy work in the digital age’ (2024) - Press release on the Commission’s proposal for a revision of the EWCs Directive (2024) - Press release: ECEG launches the Erasmus+ Blueprint project “ChemSkills: enabling the green and digital skills transformation of the chemical industry (2023) - ECEG's written feedback on learning mobility (2023) - ECEG’s written contribution to the dedicated hearing on EU Talent Pool (2023) - European Year of Skills- closing event in collaboration with other sectoral representatives - ECEG-Ceemet- industriAll Europe's joint event and statement on the STEM strategy - ECEG - industriAll Europe joint position paper "Europe needs to make its STEM strategy a reality now" (2022) - Joint position paper "EU Pay Transparency proposal: Sectoral employers’ organisations urge the plenary to endorse a more balanced approach on Pay Transparency" (2022) - Joint position paper "EU Pay Transparency Proposal: Sectoral Employers' Organisations suggest a more balanced approach" (2022) - ECEG's Position Paper on the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive “to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms” (COM(2021) 93 final) (2021) - ECEG-Ceemet joint position paper "EU Commission Pay Transparency proposal: Good objective, wrong tool" (2021) - Statement from Sectoral Employers Associations on Adequate Minimum wages in the EU (2021) - ECEG's statement on the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive “to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms” (2021) - ECEG’s Position paper on the Commission proposal for a Directive on “Adequate minimum wages in the European Union” (COM (2020) 682 final, 2020/0310 (COD)) (2021)

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

ECEG is an international not-for-profit association, that deals with social affairs and social dialogue on behalf of the EU chemical industry. We are a recognised sectoral social partner on the EU level. ECEG also works closely with BusinessEurope within the European Employers Network (EEN). http://www.eceg.org/who-we-are/. As of 2024 ECEG is funding member of the European Employer's Institute (https://eei-institute.eu)

Organisation Members

Currently, ECEG brings together 15 Member federations. The full list can be found at: https://www.eceg.org/our-members

Additional Information

ECEG is participating in two Erasmus+ Blueprint projects: - the ChemSkills initiative, where the organisation acts as the project coordinator - started in September 2023, and - the Skills4EII initiative - started in January 2025.