The third vice-president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, has made public her opinion on the debate that is taking place on the Euro 7 European directive, to guide herself on how to manage its application calendar in order to make it possible for the automotive industry .
After the informal meeting of the Twenty-seven Ministers of Energy and the Environment will take place, which is collected by Efe, Ribera has stressed that the issue of the application schedule will not be discussed at the meeting. However, he considers that it is a file in which an agreement must be reached “as soon as possible”.
The application calendar of the future Euro 7 pursues the fact of reducing polluting emissions from cars, trucks, buses and commercial vehicles with combustion engines. Ribera emphasizes that for all this to be fulfilled, it is necessary to incorporate the necessary investments in its transformation process. In addition, he advises that you respect and not bankrupt investment decisions in the car and focus on the manufacture of electric cars.
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The third vice-president has dedicated a special mention to the proposal of the European Commission that the European Union withdraw en bloc from the Energy Charter Treaty (TEC), a legal framework to protect fossil investments that has fallen behind the objectives climatic conditions, in the opinion of countries such as Spain, France or the Netherlands.
“We are evaluating it”, said Ribera, who recalled that some Member States had already been warning that the agreement reached “differed greatly from the European Union’s negotiating position and that it was not compatible with the Paris Agreement “.
In his opinion, “a coordinated exit makes much more sense”, taking into account that community legislation “is domestic for all”, than a “Member State to Member State”. “Once we have studied the Commission’s proposal, we will proceed to arbitrate it in the best possible way,” added Ribera. In any case, he has indicated, the TCE is a treaty that introduces “special rules in international trade”, for which reason the “singing voice” in the negotiation has been taken by the ministers of Commerce, not of Energy.
