AbstractThe Community fusion programme encourages industry to participate more fully, with the view of both injecting industrial expertise into the realization of the Next Step and ensuring that European industry will master all the key technologies required for the construction of future fusion reactors. Momentum has been given to this policy, via the definition and implementation of new measures for an involvement of European industry in the design and in the technological R&D for the Next Step, and in the safety and environmental assessment of fusion power. An effective point of contact between the fusion programme and industry is in place, in the form of the Committee on Fusion-Industry. A Fusion-Industry Seminar took place in October 1992 and a subsequent seminar in Madrid on 25–26 November 1994.