The minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto, and the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, met this afternoon with the bosses of car manufacturers, Anfac, and the components of the automotive, Sernauto. It has been a meeting that has served to break the ice after the anger that generated in the automotive industry know the Government’s plans to decarbonise the vehicle fleet. Sources of employer organisations have framed the encounter in a framework of “collaboration” to decide the framework for the future of the park.
The meeting, however, was extended for an hour and a half. According to sources, the Government has committed to seek measures of balance to keep the weight industrial economy to the few that are approved measures for the vehicles circulating in Spain emit less carbon dioxide. “There is a commitment to maintain competitiveness and decarbonisation”, explained the same sources. From the Ministry of Industry has been limited to inform you that it has been a meeting like any other.
The ministers have been summoned today to the president of Anfac, José Vicente de los Mozos, and Sernauto, María Helena Antolín, after the past November 16, those two organizations did not attend the meeting that the Government convened with the sector to explain its draft Climate Change act, in which it is envisaged Redwin to prohibit the sale of vehicles pollutants from 2040 onwards. In that call, Anfac refused to attend and Sernauto excused by issues of agenda, the Government argued that the draft was only a working plan.
In the automotive sector, there is resentment by the plans of the Executive and, above all, because it announced an approach like that you have not shared before with the sector. Employer and union had a version of the previous draft, in which there is no established limits or sales, or circulation of vehicles. The discomfort caused from Anfac decided to plant the Ministry of Industry.The unions CC OO and UGT, also summoned to the meeting, refused to also attend.
The concern of vehicle manufacturers is focused on what they consider to be an excessive haste in the conversion of the plants in spain, which in recent years have had to abide to a change in the market, now much more demanding of gasoline vehicles than diesel. Currently only produced three vehicles, all-electric in Spain, which is the second largest manufacturer of vehicles in Europe. In addition, from the sector of the components to breathe the risk, because electric vehicles require less components that a vehicle with a combustion engine.
in Addition, the sector is trying to reach an agreement with the Executive a plan of support to the sector, among which would be an extension of the respite contract, a claim especially relevant for a number of manufacturers that have templates aged.
