Euralarm member SäkerhetsBranschen (Security Industry) is a Swedish industry organization for security companies with over 500 members. The members combined employ 33,000 people and have an annual turnover of 5,7 billion euro. We talked with Joakim Söderström, managing director of SäkerhetsBranschen and chair of the Euralarm Security Section.

Euralarm congratulates the Portuguese EU Council Presidency and fully supports the Presidency's objectives of supporting the European Single Market and leading the European Union towards a more resilient, global, greener, fair and more digital society.

Euralarm has co-signed a letter initiated by Business Europe to the Portuguese Presidency asking for political action to solve the issue of citation of harmonized standards, in continuity with the previous actions of the German Presidency. We invite you to bring the letter and topic under attention of the local governments. 

The letter can be downloaded here.

The Open Security & Safety Alliance (OSSA®), an industry body comprised of stakeholders from all facets of the security, safety and building automation space, today announced it has joined Euralarm, the association of European manufacturers, installers and service providers from the electronic fire safety and security industry. By joining the Security Section within Euralarm, OSSA will contribute valuable expertise in the domain of Internet of Things (IoT), while leveraging on Euralarm’s profound relationships in the European security and safety markets.

We are also pleased to announce our provisional calendar of activities for the year. Under the current circumstances around COVID-19 however, some dates/locations later in the year may be subject to review. The dates included in this calendar are indicative, we invite you to keep a close eye on calendar invitations received from your Section, Committee or Task Group, and on any update we may communicate in the future.

The provisional 2021 Euralarm calendar can be downloaded here.

The EU and UK have agreed to a new trade relation. The draft Trade and Cooperation Agreement consists of three main pillars:

This afternoon the Euralarm Policy  Policy Event "On the road to the EU Recovery" took place. In case you missed it, the presentations can now be downloaded here.

• Presentation Renovation Wave by Stefan Moser, Head of Unit, Energy Efficiency of Buildings and Products
• Presentation Ambitious EU Recovery Plan for a safer and more secure Society by Dominique Taudin, chair Advocacy Committee Euralarm
• On the road to the EU recovery: Local perspective by the industry by Martin Pioch, Senior Manager European Affairs, ZVEI

Euralarm has welcomed its first associate member: Kiwa, a trusted and proven partner in the field of fire safety and security. The autonomous global company is specialized in testing, inspection, certification, training and consultancy services. With these services Kiwa contributes among others to the quality, safety and sustainability of organisation’s products, services and processes.

The FIA is excited to hear if you are working on an IoT project, how you are working to implement it, what barriers you are facing and finally how the FIA can help you overcome these barriers. Have your say and help shape the future fire industry.

After fifteen years of service Marc Chenevoy has put an end to his activities for Euralarm. A last interview with Euralarm’s Technical Manager who witnessed so many trends and developments in the fire safety and security industry.