THEItaly – supported by the Germany – is leading a large group of EU countries, at least ten, that want to review the EU regulation on emissions CO2 of the auto. A battle that is far from simple and which will take a long time, also in view of the not imminent start of the works of the new european executive driven by Ursula von der Leyen.
Cars, with us at least 9 countries
Il 2035 target, says the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso “can remain the objective, but only if we manage to create the conditions to achieve it. We need a European plan on the automotive sector that allows businesses and consumers to face and sustain the challenge and that guarantees the necessary resources, both as common European resources and as private resources”.
The minister presented his vision yesterday in Brussels, during the EU Competitiveness Council proposal to bring forward the review to early 2025, expected by the end of 2026, of the EU Regulation on emissions CO2 for cars and vans staring at theobiettivo of new zero-emission vehicles in 2035. “As regards our proposal – Urso reported – some countries have expressed themselves in the Council and others in the bilateral meetings I have had. I am referring specifically to Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Malta, Cyprus, Poland, the Czech Republic; and I have spoken – the minister added – also with other partners such as Spain and yesterday with the Germany“. Germany and Spain – Urso observed – want to maintain the 2035 target, but they are available to discuss how to change the current rules to fully achieve that goal; specifically in allocating national and European resources, public and private, and also common European resources, both to support European companies in this challenge, to accelerate, and to support European consumers and families in purchasing an electric car, or in any case an ecologically sustainable one”.
Cars, what is Urso’s goal?
Urso’s aim is to draft an informal document to present to the Commission (“no paper”) on a new European industrial policy, in line with the indications of the Draghi Report. In particular, for the automotive sector, Urso has asked for the introduction of a European Automotive Act, asking the Commission to bring forward the presentation of the sector reports required by the regulation on CO2026 emissions from 2025 to the first months of 2.
The goal of zero emissions by 2035 according to Urso, it is only achievable if we realize three conditions: to establish a support fund for the entire supply chain and for consumers who buy electric cars produced in Europe; adopt an approach that favours the technological neutrality, recognising an important role for biofuels, e-fuels and hydrogen; defining a strategy to ensure theEuropean autonomy in battery production, using critical raw materials mined and processed on the continent.
For Urso, the EU must “reassess the framework in which decisions related to the automotive sector were taken in 2023: the data that emerge, the alarms that are being launched by the automotive industry and the unions, are already eloquent and sufficient to draw an initial assessment. For this reason, Italy intends to accelerate the process by creating new conditions, so that the objectives are achieved. The environmental policy cannot be isolated from industrial policy and from trade policy, must travel together. It is necessary that the European Union be guaranteed autonomy on critical raw materials needed for the green transition and the digital transition”.
Cars and EU regulation on CO2, the political reactions
According to the Five Stars movement “The Meloni government has made another fool of itself in the EU. A large part of European countries, starting with Germany, Spain and France up to Meloni’s friend, the Hungarian Orban, have soundly rejected Minister Urso’s proposal to bring forward the revision of EU regulations on cars to 2025, with the declared aim of postponing ‘sine die’ the ban on internal combustion engines from 2035”. This is what the M5S parliamentarians of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies say. For the Pd Andrea Orlando observed that “Minister Urso talks about a common EU fund to support the costs of the ecological transition, particularly in the automotive sector. They have wasted two years to get to the same point from which we started and for which we began working with the previous government, supporting the need for common tools to prevent the costs of the transitions from being passed on to workers and consumers. Two precious years wasted in chatter, without a compass. Evidently they recognize the goodness of our proposals, discarded too superficially”.
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