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Our services

Services include factual reporting, research, analysis, and individually-tailored practical advice on policy or business development. Clients are welcome to start at any of those levels. Many have gone through all in sequence: 1) please tell us what’s happening (in a particular field); 2) give us an analysis of its significance; and then 3) advise us on how we should best respond to optimise our own results.

We serve both government and private-sector clients. All our work has a link to cross-border harmonisation and its implications: harmonisation of specifications, of conformity assessment, of technical regulation or other policies and programmes central to the establishment of common standards of cross-border trade in goods or services. But we go on from that core to examine the full range of issues relevant to development, including operational programmes, structuring of wholly new ventures, and strategic partnerships. We do not undertake lobbying assignments.

  The core service

Our core service, the Europe-link Information Service on EU Product Approvals, is a multi-client service covering developments in European-level harmonisation in that specialised field. It is available at two levels: 1) quick, bi-monthly summaries of key news, and 2) detailed analysis, comment, and guidance to the most authoritative free-of-charge sources.

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We do the searching for accurate and authoritative updates, thus eliminating the need for in-house teams to waste time on searches via search engines. Where desired, long-term support can be offered to integrate reports and other data into in-house Intranet services of our clients, to optimise accessibility.

This service ranges from basic factual updates, such as revisions to EU technical regulations or the issue of new guidance documents, to broader reports on the evolution of policies and programmes, such as developments in the EU’s eco-design programme or progress towards establishing common ground-rules for zero-energy buildings. The service also monitors major global harmonisation programmes in which the European Union is a prime participant.

Prices start at € 500 per year for six bi-monthly updates without detailed sources. Detailed analytical reports with links to authoritative sources are available as a higher-level service.

  Individually commissioned projects

All other work is individually commissioned and client-specific. It may include:

• Research and analysis in areas where harmonisation work is currently under way or planned;
• Tailored advice on optimum policies or strategies. Advice can range from installation / adaptation of operational programmes to the structuring of wholly new ventures, with or without strategic partnerships with others.

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