The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) is adapting its organisational structure to help Europe’s industrial ecosystems recover more effectively from the COVID-crisis and to achieve the EU's digital and green goals.
Today, the Commission held the 5th Ministerial Meeting under the European Battery Alliance. Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Commissioners Thierry Breton, Nicolas Schmit and Elisa Ferreira, as well as the European Investment Bank Vice-Presidents Ambroise Fayolle and Thomas Östros attended the event alongside Ministers from 14 EU Member States with significant investments in the battery value chain.
Yesterday, Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič and Commissioner Thierry Breton held a high-level meeting with industry representatives of the European battery value chain to discuss the most pressing tasks ahead. EIB Vice-President Ambroise Fayolle also participated.
Today, the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) published its third Report on conformity factors, which are used to assess compliance of vehicles with emission limits while performing a Real Driving Emissions (RDE) test.
The Alliance for Batteries Technology, Training and Skills (ALBATTS) project is organising a series of four webinars from 19 to 27 January 2021.
Today, the European Commission proposes to modernise EU legislation on batteries, delivering its first initiative among the actions announced in the new Circular Economy Action Plan. Batteries that are more sustainable throughout their life cycle are key for the goals of the European Green Deal and contribute to the zero pollution ambition set in it.
Commissioners Schmit and Breton have officially launched the Pact for Skills, a central element of the European Skills Agenda. They have also announced the first European skills partnerships in key industrial ecosystems – automotive, microelectronics, and aerospace and defence industries.
The Commission would like to receive feedback on sound emissions of L3e, L5e, L6e and L7e vehicles
The Erasmus + project DRIVES would like to invite you to their Webinars which take place between 20 October and 2 December 2020.
Development and research on innovative vocational educational skills (DRIVES) and the Alliance for batteries technology, training and skills (ALBATTS) are organising the online workshop 'Regions & skills in the automotive industry' on 13 October, during the European Week of Regions and Cities 2020.
The Commission wants your views on future European vehicle emissions standards for cars, vans, lorries and buses (Euro 7).
Tomorrow, the EU regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles will start to apply. Adopted in May 2018, the new regulation significantly overhauls and tightens the previous type approval and market surveillance system
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing major disruption of the supply chain which has had an impact on non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) manufacturers’ ability to meet some of the deadlines imposed by Regulation (EU) 2016/1628.
Since 1 February 2020, the UK has withdrawn from the EU. The ‘withdrawal agreement’ provides for a transition period ending on 31 December 2020. As of 1 January 2021, there will be broad and far-reaching consequences, regardless of the outcome of ongoing Brexit negotiations. Stakeholders must make sure they are ready for them.
The European Commission is asking retrofit emission control (REC) systems providers to participate in this study on potential emission reduction through retrofitting of existing passenger cars and vans.
The current pandemic crisis has stopped production in many automotive companies leading to job security issues for many employees in the sector.
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs is seeking input from stakeholders regarding current sound emission levels of M- and N-category vehicles.
The European Commission is requesting feedback on the interim results of the COSME project "Towards a common vision on addressing SMEs' skills needs in the automotive sector: strengthening the development of upskilling and reskilling strategies".
The revised General Safety Regulation entered into force on 5 January 2020. The new rules require that, as of July 2022, all new vehicle models introduced on the European market are equipped with advanced safety features, such as technology to detect drivers' drowsiness and distraction, improved impact zone to mitigate the risk of injury to pedestrians and cyclists, systems reducing dangerous blind spots on trucks and buses, and data recording technology.
