Dear Partners,
Under the Chairmanship of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska (DG Growth) and in the presence of 5 Commissioners, the High Level Group on Automotive Industry (GEAR 2030) met for the first time on 26 January 2016 at the European Commission in Brussels.
GEAR 2030 brings together key stakeholders to discuss the future of the automotive industry. Public authorities and representatives from industry and academia will join forces to address the challenges faced by the European automotive industry in a coordinated way.
The overall topic for the meeting was “EU automotive industry in 2030 horizon” with the following subtopics for which discussion papers where prepared:
- Adaptation of the EU value chain
- Roadmap for highly automated vehicles
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- Trade, international harmonisation and global competitiveness
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The ERTICO Partnership, represented by Hermann Meyer, was asked to comment on the second topic and made the following comments
- mentioned digitalisation of transport “as an enabler and driver of current major trends in the automotive sector: automation, electrification and mobility as a service”
- requested the EU to develop a common vision on how to steer these trends towards a new mobility paradigm
- requested a single European market and legal framework for automation and ITS to ensure market scale and continuity of services
- asked the European Commission and Member States “to consider a large scale deployment pilot on automated and connected vehicles in Europe with the purpose to bring existing European initiatives to a convergence and to kick-start necessary infrastructure investments”
Commissioner Violetta Bulc (DG MOVE), in her conclusions, highlighted the topics “infrastructure provision”, “big data”, “application layer”, “integrated services” and “value networks” as important work items in the context of automated and connected vehicles.
The next meeting of this group will be in February 2017. In the meantime, the European Commission is setting up working groups to further elaborate on the topics of the 3 discussion papers. The ERTICO Partnership will be represented by Maxime Flament and Jean-Charles Pandazis.
Thank you for your interest and support in this development.
