Dutch politicians have voted through a motion calling on the country to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars starting in 2025. The motion has only passed through the lower house of the Netherlands’ parliament, and would need to pass through the Dutch senate to...
Paris, April 18, 2016 – Valeo today announed a project to enter into a 50/0 joint venture agreement with Siemens dedicated to high voltage powertrains. The joint venture would capitalise on Valeo’s and Siemens’ leading positions in their respective sectors, with the ultimate goal of creating...
On April 7, 2016, the European Commission's Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) published the roadmap for the forthcoming “Communication on decarbonising the transport sector”. (For the full Roadmap, please click here) Overview This communication follows the statement made in the Energy Union Package that...
On 6 April 2016, the Netherlands presidency reached a provisional agreement with European Parliament representatives on a draft regulation setting new requirements to grant EU type-approval aimed atreducing pollutant emissions of engines installed in non-road mobile machinery. The agreement is subject to confirmation by the Committee...
The next CLEPA Materials Regulations Event will be held in Bad Homburg (Germany) on 20th April 2016 GENERAL ISSUES The 168th session of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP29) was held in Geneva from 8 to 11 March 2016. A new UN Regulation under the...
While the overall circular economy package is broader than the withdrawn proposals, in the area of waste the changes now presented are somewhat less ambitious when it comes to actual targets. Studies have shown that while targets are important to drive up performance, they need...
Brussels, 18 March 2016 Last night, more than 160 guests from the European automotive industry along with EU policymakers gathered in Brussels to celebrate the CLEPA Innovation Awards 2016. Organised in cooperation with Deloitte, the Innovation Awards highlight the outstanding achievements made in the European automotive industry,...
On Friday, March 18th, CLEPA members, during their Annual General Assembly in Brussels, highlighted Sustainable Mobility as the defining challenge for the automotive industry for the year to come. To achieve this goal, CLEPA has identified the following priorities: the reduction of CO2 emissions post 2020,...
The European Parliament Committee of inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS) elected its chair and four vice-chairs at a constituent meeting on Wednesday morning, therefore officially starting its one-year mandate. MEPs elected the chair, Kathleen Van Brempt (S&D, BE). Afterwards, Ms Van Brempt...
The CLEPA Working Group on Technical Regulations (WG TR) held its first 2016 session on 18 and 19 February 2016 at CLEPA offices. The WGTR reviewed and commented the new CLEPA WG organization as adopted by CLEPA Board of Directors. WG TR offered its support in...