An efficient EU policy framework is key to enabling a dynamic and competitive transition to zero-emission mobility, creating the right conditions to allow the European automotive industry to thrive and compete globally.
ACEA President Luca de Meo has today presented the ACEA contribution to the envisaged EU Automotive Industrial Plan, including proposals for a simplified regulatory framework for the European auto industry.
The input comes on the eve of the recently announced, and much anticipated, Strategic Dialogue on the future of the automotive industry in Europe. It feeds into the Automotive Industrial Action Plan, which is expected as part of the first 100 days of the new European Commission.
The ACEA contribution to the EU’s automotive industrial action plan is focused on three key pillars:
- implementing a strong EU Industrial Policy to make business easier and faster in Europe;
- creating conditions for a self-propelling market-driven transition to zero-emission mobility for passenger cars, vans, buses and trucks; and
- reducing administrative burden and simplifying legislation.
A key element of a revitalised policy framework is a simplified legislative environment intended to reduce the regulatory burden and allow EU institutions to better stress test their legislation, all while preventing overlaps and incoherencies.
Vehicle manufacturers alone are expected to comply with a pipeline of more than 100 pieces of legislation by 2030, spanning requirements for vehicle safety, emissions, energy, materials, data, and security. In implementing these pieces of legislation, they are often faced with technical, administrative or timing incoherences.
ACEA has therefore developed tangible proposals for a simplified regulatory framework to better match the paper reality with industrial cycles:
- grouping regulatory requirements affecting the automotive industry into separate batches;
- regulating the future, not the past, by focusing on new type approval;
- create a one-stop shop / taskforce to conduct industry-specific impact assessments and consistency tests of new laws.
These proposals point to concrete solutions that reduce administrative and reporting requirements, ensure that new legislation is leaner and more targeted, and deliver a simpler legislative process.
An efficient EU policy framework is key to enabling a dynamic and competitive transition to zero-emission mobility, creating the right conditions to allow the European automotive industry to thrive and compete globally.
