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Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented today three publications setting out the Commission’s priorities on digital issues: “Europe for the digital age,” “A European Strategy for data,” and a White Paper on Artificial Intelligence. The Commission also sets out to adopt in 2020-2021 a number of...

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[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]EWFA, the European Window Film Association held its third Annual Membership Meeting on the 23rd of January in Munich. During this one-day event, EWFA members attended presentations from peer organisations such as ETO (European Tuning Organisation), CLEPA (European Association of Automotive...

[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] As we go to press, stakeholders of all kinds are scrambling to give input to the public consultation on the roadmap for enshrining in law the ambition to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. In parallel, Commission officials at...

[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]Britain’s car industry after Brexit, BBC Radio Sigrid de Vries explains the implications for the EU-wide motor industry if the UK government chooses to diverge on automotive standards.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][button target="_self" hover_type="default" text="Listen to the episode" link="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172wx93fmj00tn"][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Auto industry underlines need for...

Celebrating its 5th anniversary, the cluster Autoregion organised the 2020 kick-off conference in Saarbrücken, Germany on the 22nd of January.   [caption id="attachment_18445" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Foto: BeckerBredel[/caption] The sessions were focused on mobility and innovation and looked into the challenges that the automotive industry is currently facing in...

    The European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection organised today a public hearing to discuss the need to review the Product Liability Directive and related challenges in the new digital age. Frank Schlehuber, Senior Consultant Market Affairs at CLEPA, attended the hearing to present...

[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]The draft UN Regulation builds on the Global Technical Regulation for WLTP adopted by the World Forum in 2015, adding administrative provisions, conformity of production, durability and pollutant emission limits. Vehicles approved for mutual recognition under the 1958 Agreement...

[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]Since their creation, subsequent mass production and global usage over the last century, cars and other motorised vehicles have certainly evolved. However, developments have not been as widely innovative and uprooting as the changes the mobility sector is encountering in these last decades or so. The automotive industry is undergoing...