European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations

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European Federation of Engineering Consultancy
Associations

• Presentation

September 2009
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The identity of EFCA

• EFCA represents the engineering consultancy
  industry in Europe (countries of the E.U. or EFTA
  or candidate countries) MAs from other European
  countries are Observer Members
• EFCA represents
• professional associations from 28 European
  countries
• which represent 10,000 companies
• with an annual turnover gt 100 billion
• 1 million employees in engineering consultancy
  industry
• EFCA internal
• Annual budget 640.000
• Secretariat 3 permanent staff 1 part-time
  employee

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• Albania
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• The Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal

Iceland
Associations from 28 European countries
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Denmark
Ireland
Russia
U.K.
Netherlands
Poland
Belgium
Germany
Luxembourg
Czech Rep.
France
Slovakia
Austria
Switzerland
Hungary
Slovenia
Romania
Portugal
Italy
Bulgaria
Spain
Albania
Turkey
Greece
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What EFCA stands for

Mission
EFCA is the sole and representative federation
promoting the European engineering consulting
industry to the European institutions
Goals

• EFCA aspires to positively influence EU
  legislation that impacts on engineering
  consultancy
• EFCA promotes fair competition and transparent
  procurement rules
• EFCA is a business platform/network for member
  associations and European firms

Strategy

• support the EU institutions as an expert
  knowledge broker
• assist member associations in achieving common
  European goals
• communicate the views of engineering consultants
  externally to the European institutions lending
  agencies and internally to the national member
  associations
• establish alliances/partnerships with other
  interest groupings

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Added Value for Members

• For the national associations
• Input to the development of policies on European
  professional issues
• Information about E.U. Policy and legislative
  developments
• National interests reinforced at pan-European
  level through EFCA Committees, papers and
  guidance on EU legislation
• Exchanges of best practice and experience
• For the professionals
• Enhancement of the profile of the profession
• An European-wide business network
• Access to latest information on EU issues
  affecting business

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Plan 2008-2011 Principal Elements

• Enhance the image of consulting engineering in
  Europe
• Improve business conditions for European firms
• Enhance business development of European firms
• Pursue expansion of EFCA membership in Europe
• Enhance cooperation with European MAs
• Improve working relationship with FIDIC

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Enhance the image of consulting engineering in
Europe

• Highlight the role of the consulting engineer to
  European societies
• Highlight value of engineering design
  innovation to society client base
• Showcase engineering works (consider excellence
  awards)
• Support MAs for enhancing the image of the sector
  in their countries

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Improve business conditions, 1/2

• Analyse and address trends of the business
  environment, e.g.
• ? growing investments of emerging economies
• ? distortions of competition
• Develop policy proposals for internal market and
  external aid (AIDCO and DG Development), e.g.
  for
• ? Improvement of public procurement in Europe
  EU funded projects for fair, transparent
  effective procurement (incl. PPP projects)
• ? Improvement of liability insurance
  conditions
• ? Enhancement of the internal market
• ? Promotion of business integrity in Europe and
  EU funded projects

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Improve business conditions, 2/2

• Promote exchange of experience and improvement of
  business conditions relating to public private
  clients
• Pursue dialogue with E.C. on improvement of
  business conditions
• ? Cultivate relations with key persons in the
  E.C.
• ? Enhance visibility in Brussels member
  states/countries (incl. web site, Voice of EFCA,
  publicity in major events)
• Strengthen ties with other European
  federations/organisations
• Pursue dialogue with representative institutions
  of clients of the Private sector, e.g.
  contractors
• Arrange seminars in MA countries on public
  procurement, consulting contract conditions and
  liability issues

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Enhance business development

• Enhance support of MAs for business development
  of their firms
• ? Promote exchange of experience on business
  practices
• ? Pursue benchmarking evaluation of trends of
  European firms (after evaluation of interest)
• Support MAs of CEEC in developing the local
  consulting market
• Promote networking among European firms
• Promote European industry to European
  Clients/Markets beyond where necessary
• Inform Young Professionals on European structures

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Enhance cooperation with MAs

• Improve communication with MAs
• ? Improve communication content from EFCA to
  MAs
• ? Emphasise importance of being involved (!)
• ? Promote MA information of member firms (!)
• ? Strengthen ties with MAs for policy
  formulation (reverse-pump)
• ? Compile info on situation in member states
• ? Promote accurate reporting of MA membership
  to EFCA
• Support MAs in their lobby for transposition of
  E.U. legislation with lobbying, documentation,
  seminars etc.
• Support MAs in cultivation of ties with
  architectural firms and process design
  engineering firms (where applicable)
• Support MAs in their provision of services
• ? Update review of best practices
• ? Enhance exchange of information/experience
  in Committees

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Improve working relationship with FIDIC

• Facilitate the formulation of broadly acceptable
  representational model(s) of European industry
• Pursue GAM decision(s) implementation of new
  cooperation structure with FIDIC
• Short-term address pending problems with FIDIC

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EFCAs Committees and Task Forces

• European Public Market (EPM) Committee
• European External Aid (EEA) Committee
• European Liability Insurance Committee (ELI)
• European Consulting Future (ECF) Committee
• Task Force on Health Safety (HS) on
  construction sites
• Task Force on Standardisation of Terminology

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Recent output (downloadable)

• press release on acceleration increased
  flexibility for public works
• guidelines for transposition of Directive 2004/18
• guidelines for award of PPPs
• guideline for safety in construction (with ACE)
• policy papers on competitive dialogue, PPPs
  project team
• feedback to the EC on internal market and
  external aid
• interventions for liability issues in the
  Services Directive 2006/123
• interventions on EC guidance on health safety
  on construction sites
• joint publication with SYNTEC Ingénierie (France)
  of White Paper Engineering Consultancy and
  Innovation
• comparative assessment of European stimulus
  packages

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In the pipe-line

• printing of guidelines for public procurement in
  Europe, award of PPPs and safety on construction
  sites (with ACE)
• policy on the acceleration and increased
  flexibility of public works
• policy paper on limitation of liability
• policy paper on distribution of liability among
  joint venture members
• code of conduct for engineering consultancy in
  Europe
• policy paper on need to focus on quality rather
  than price for procurement of consulting services
• policy paper on contract conditions for
  consulting contracts
• guidance to firms for participation in European
  external aid projects
• seminars on public procurement in CEEC countries
• annual meetings with CEOs of large firms