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March 10, 2025
Clean Industrial Deal and Omnibus Package: Europe's new competitiveness is still finding its compass
Ever since the publication of the Draghi Report, the European Union has been eagerly awaited on the subject of competitiveness. On Wednesday February 26, 2025, the European Commission presented the first two flagship initiatives of the new term of office to strengthen the competitiveness of the European economy and guarantee sustainable prosperity: the first Omnibus Package and the Clean Industrial Deal.
In response, Impact France, along with 8 other organizations, business networks and funders, is calling for the transition to become a strategic opportunity to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation and robustness of European businesses, and presents its concrete recommendations for achieving this.
Firstly, the long-awaited Omnibus package includes measures to simplify several Green Deal texts, including the CSRD and the Duty of Vigilance Directive, which are essential for guiding companies along the transition path and better protecting them from unfair competition.
Fully mobilized for years on this subject(cf. our #FuturCSRD initiative a few weeks ago), Impact France regrets the path taken by the European Commission, which runs the risk of calling into question principles at the heart of our future resilience, and prolongs negotiations in Brussels by several months.
In the coming months, Impact France will ensure that this initiative does not serve to deregulate or unravel these regulations, but rather tooptimize their implementation and turn them into levers for growth, investment and sustainable competitiveness, meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow.
At the same time, we welcome the presentation of the Clean Industrial Deal, which takes up the issue of decarbonizing our industry and sees it as a lever for revitalizing our economy. We encourage the direction taken, which takes up many of our recommendations (Green VAT, sustainability and proximity criteria in public and private procurement, European law on the circular economy...) and remain mobilized to ensure that the implementation of these initiatives fully meets the needs of companies committed to the ecological and social transition.
Far from being a constraint, this transition should be a strategic opportunity to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation and resilience of European businesses.
Et si la commande publique devenait enfin un véritable levier pour les entreprises européennes qui investissent dans la qualité, l’innovation et l’impact ? Avec son projet de règlement sur les marchés publics présenté le 9 septembre 2026, la Commission européenne propose de changer la donne en renforçant la prise en compte du « Made in Europe » et des critères sociaux et environnementaux dans les règles d’attribution de la commande publique. Mobilisé de longue date auprès de ses dirigeants sur ce dossier, Impact France analyse les enjeux de cette réforme et formule ses propositions pour faire de la commande publique un véritable outil de transformation de l’économie européenne.
La Commission européenne a publié mi-septembre une étude inédite consacrée aux “Impact-driven businesses” pour évaluer la contribution de ces modèles aux priorités européennes, identifier les freins à leur développement et ouvrir la voie à de nouvelles politiques publiques spécifiques. Dans cet article, nous partageons notre analyse des enseignements de ce nouveau rapport européen et décryptons les choix opérés et les perspectives qu’il dessine pour le développement des modèles à impact.
