INDUSTRY MATTERS FOR EUROPE AND ITS CITIZENS European industry is everywhere in our daily life: from the houses we build, the furniture we buy, the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the healthcare we receive, the energy and means of transport we use to the...
Brussels, 17 October 2018 – Ahead of this evening’s Brexit summit, Europe’s auto manufacturers and suppliers have come together to issue a stark warning on the potentially far-reaching impacts of a no-deal scenario on their sector, which would threaten their very business model. Automobile production plants...
Member States in the Council have adopted their position (‘general approach’) on the regulation for CO2 targets for cars and vans. Environment ministers decided to raise the target for cars for 2030 by 5 percentage points to 35%, raise the threshold of the mechanism to...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Click on the link below to download the position paper: [button size='' style='' text='CLEPA Position Paper on Brexit' icon='' icon_color='' link='https://clepa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CLEPA-Position-Paper-on-Brexit.pdf' target='_self' color='#19abe3' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='#ebebeb' hover_background_color='#19abe3' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='center' margin='150'] [vc_separator type='normal' position='center' color='#e6e6e6' thickness='' up='' down=''] Introduction The European Automotive...
Today, the Plenary of the European Parliament has taken the position for a reduction of 40% of carbon emissions from new passenger cars and vans by 2030, well beyond the European Commission proposal, as well as rules to mandate the sales of electric vehicles. These...
Click on the link below to download the position paper: [button size='' style='' text='CLEPA Position Paper on Reduction of Urban Pollution' icon='' icon_color='' link='https://clepa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CLEPA-Position-Paper-on-Reduction-of-Urban-Pollution.pdf' target='_self' color='#19abe3' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='#ebebeb' hover_background_color='#19abe3' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='center' margin='150'] [vc_separator type='normal' position='center' color='#e6e6e6' thickness='' up='' down=''] Background This paper summarises options to reduce pollutant...
Warranty and quality specialists from automotive suppliers have met at the 2018 CLEPA Warranty Conference in Frankfurt, Sept 18 2019 to discuss the future challenges in managing warranty in the future. The headline of the conference was “Warranty in a digital world”. Partners from Strategy&, a...
The ENSEMBLE - ENabling SafE Multi-Brand pLatooning for Europe –an initiative project co-funded by the European Commission, saw a further successful meeting recently to kick-start its work. The project, which started in June 2018 and will last three years, aims to ensure safe platooning when...
The revision of the General Safety Regulation promises an important step towards reaching EU road safety targets and a significant reduction of road casualties. The regulation which is currently being discussed by the European Parliament and the Council would make mandatory a number of safety...
The European Commission’s ‘state of the union 2018’ presented last week by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made a point of celebrating achievements but signalled loudly as well that the work is far from over. Not for Europe—one only needs to nudge at issues such as...