European Council approves second RDE package
On 12 February 2016, the Council approved the adoption of the second package of rules to introduce real driving emission (RDE) tests. The new tests are intended to measure more accurately pollutant...
13 February 2016 - Read more
Roadmap on Energy Union Integrated Research Strategy
On February 8th, the European Commission published its Roadmap on Energy Union Integrated Strategy on Research, Innovation and Competitiveness. Below is the introduction and for the full roadmap, clic...
09 February 2016 - Read more
European Commission presents Type Approval Overhaul
The European Commission has tabled legislative proposals to ensure car and components manufacturers comply strictly with all EU safety, environmental and production requirements.
The Comm...
09 February 2016 - Read more
Speech by Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc at a Road Safety Conference in Ljubljana: “A lot done, more to do”
European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc visited the International Conference on Road Safety in the Danube Region Ljubljana on 5 February 2016. At the conference, she gave the following speech...
05 February 2016 - Read more
European Parliament Study: The World is Changing. Transport Too.
On February 5th, the European Parliament Directorate-General for Internal Policies Policy Department B published its latest study: "The World is Changing. Transport Too."
Read below for t...
05 February 2016 - Read more
Real Driving Emissions
CLEPA, the European Association of Automotive Suppliers, welcomes the decision 10019...
03 February 2016 - Read more
Driverless cars technology receives £20 million boost from UK government
Source: Robert Bosch
Eight new projects across the UK have been awarded £20 million in funding to research and develop enhanced communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure or urban...
02 February 2016 - Read more
European Commission tightens rules for safer and cleaner cars
The Commission has today proposed a major overhaul of the so-called 'EU type approval framework' to ensure car manufacturers comply strictly with all EU safety, environmental and production requiremen...
27 January 2016 - Read more
Automated driving: Bosch now conducting tests on roads in Japan
Stuttgart, Germany and Yokohama, Japan – Bosch is taking the development of automated driving one step further. As well as in Germany and the U.S., the supplier of technology and services is now tes...
27 January 2016 - Read more
European Automotive Industry Gearing up
CLEPA welcomes the official launch of the High Level Group GEAR2030 9894...
26 January 2016 - Read more
CLEPA launches REMAN Policy Working Group
At the beginning of the year, CLEPA successfully launched its REMAN Policy Working Group in order to raise awareness and gain support from policymakers on a European and international political level...
26 January 2016 - Read more
Launch of the GEAR2030 consultation process – first meetings in January 2016
CLEPA has been selected by the European Commission to be a member of the High Level Group GEAR2030, the EC consultation process for sectoral policy in the automotive industry, which was officially lau...
25 January 2016 - Read more
ACEA celebrates its 25th anniversary
Brussels, January 21, 2016, assignment for ACEA at their annual meeting. © Fred Guerdin ©
On 21 January 2016, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) hosted a recepti...
25 January 2016 - Read more
Telematics and the European Commission DG MOVE: C-ITS Platform
The relation between Telematics and the automotive industry comes very close to what some might call a revolution.
Although it is clear that data gathering is not something new in the aut...
25 January 2016 - Read more
President Barack Obama Visits ZF NAIAS Booth
Detroit. ZF was the only automotive supplier to host President Barack Obama at its North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) booth during his visit to Detroit on January, 20. The company demonstr...
21 January 2016 - Read more
European Parliament Green-lights Emission Measurements Inquiry Committee
The European Parliament gave the green light for the creation of a committee of inquiry into car emission tests in a vote held on Thursday, January 21st. The committee, comprised of 45 members in to...
21 January 2016 - Read more
TAYSAD awarded “Silver Label of Cluster Management Excellence” by ECSA
We at CLEPA are delighted to announce that one of our members, TAYSAD – the Turkish Association of Automotive Parts and Components Manufacturers – has been awarded by ESCA - The European Secretari...
20 January 2016 - Read more
MEPs discuss vetoing plan to relax diesel car emission limits
A proposal to veto a draft decision to raise diesel car emission limits for nitrogen oxides (NOx) by up to 110% when the Real Driving Emissions (RDE) test procedure is introduced was discussed by MEPs...
19 January 2016 - Read more
European Parliament postpones plenary vote on Real Driving Emissions
A much anticipated vote on draft EU rules on testing pollutant emissions from cars, which was foreseen for next week, will be postponed. The decision was taken at the Conference of Presidents of polit...
14 January 2016 - Read more
Roberto Vavassori begins term as new CLEPA President
05 January 2016 - Read more
Environment MEPs oppose relaxing diesel car emission test limits
A draft decision to raise diesel car emission limits for nitrogen oxides (NOx) by up to 110%, along with the introduction of the long-awaited Real Driving Emissions (RDE) test procedure, is neither ex...
15 December 2015 - Read more
EU celebrates Paris climate deal
Last weekend, world leaders reached a landmark agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to tackle climate change. 195 countries signed the legally binding agreement, while the driving...
15 December 2015 - Read more
Autonomous driving and the future of the car industry
On 10 December, Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, delivered a closing speech at the Seminar on Autonomous Driving held by the Forum for Mobi...
10 December 2015 - Read more
EU data protection Advisory Group
The European Data Protection Supervisor has set up an Ethics Advisory Group on the ethical dimensions of data protection by his decision of 3 December 2015.
The overall objective of the Advisory Gr...
07 December 2015 - Read more
French plan for green transport
On the occasion of Transport Action Day on December 3, Ségolène Royal, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, and Head of the French delegation has launched four initiatives for an...
04 December 2015 - Read more