The European Commission maintains your goal of prohibit sales of cars combustion in the community territory from 2035, despite the frontal opposition from the automotive sector which has repeatedly advocated in recent months for watering down the proposed rules.
This is at least the position that will defend the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra, during the hearings in the European Parliament that will take place throughout the month of November, according to EP.
In internal documents the Dutchman assures that “you cannot and should not turn back“in the plans to ban the sale of gasoline and diesel combustion vehicles, reaffirming the legislative position of 2021, criticized by manufacturers at a time when they face an accelerated decline in sales of electric cars and the landing of the competition from China.
With the exception of Renault, all the major European car groups have warned in recent weeks about a benefit cut towards the end of the financial year and, in fact, Volkswagen, Germany’s largest private employer, is considering the plant closure in the country for the first time in its 87-year history.
At the same time, the European employers’ association of manufacturers (ACEA, for its acronym in English) warned in one of its latest statements that the sector could face fines worth up to 15 billion of euros in 2025 when part of the community standards aimed at reducing polluting gas emissions will come into force, specifically, up to 15% compared to 2021 levels.
At the beginning of September, Italy asked Brussels for a comprehensive review of the regulations due to fears that the measure could cause the “collapse” of the community automobile industry.
Dealers on alert
Furthermore, Rome considers that there is a growing concern that European manufacturers such as Volkswagen or Stellantis are falling further and further behind regarding competition from China and the United States, where local companies have benefited in recent years from an avalanche of state subsidies that have financed the transformation of their industries.
But the concern also reaches the dealersand the European Association of Dealers (Aecdr) to which the Spanish employers’ association Faconauto belongs has sent a letter to the president of the European Commission, Úrsula Von der Leyen, in which they request a urgent review of regulations of carbon dioxide emissions to “adjust them to the reality of the current market.
In the letter sent last Monday to the head of the Community Executive, a call is made to implement the necessary legislative adjustments to “align electrification measures and schedules” with the current trend in Europe.
In this context, this European employers’ association proposes advance the review of the regulations of polluting emissions objectives for 2025, which is currently planned to be carried out between 2026 and 2027 with the aim of analyzing the “necessary conditions” to establish a calendar “in accordance with the current situation and future perspectives.”
A fear among dealers of a drop in sales that would put into play hundreds of thousands of jobs in the European territory.
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