Car manufacturers ask for a “homogeneous, stable and aligned with Europe” regulatory framework

Energy transition yes, but one and not seventeen, and without going beyond what Brussels demands. Anfac, the National Association of Vehicle Manufacturers, places among its priorities for 2020 the demand to the new Executive of a national regulatory framework, “homogeneous, stable and aligned with Europe”.

In a working document to which ABC has had access, the association is committed to a unique scheme at the state level “that must be configured as a backbone of any other regional or local policy”. In addition, it demands that it “consider technological neutrality, avoid prohibitionism, promote a taxation focused on the renewal of the park and create a framework of certainty that reinforces the presence of the automotive sector in Spain”.

Behind the Anfac document weighs, although it is not mentioned, the Balearic Climate Change Law, which contemplated banning diesel vehicles in 2025 and was paralyzed in November after vehicle manufacturers denounced it in Brussels and before Competition. Also the recent Catalan tax on CO2 emissions, or the first working draft of the future Climate Change Law, which contemplated prohibiting the sale of combustion cars from 2040.

In a recent interview with ABC, Mario Armero, until December 30, vice president of the association of vehicle manufacturers, considered “fundamental” that “in terms of mobility there is a national authority and a national law that provides cohesion to all territories.” “Climate change has no local solutions,” he added.

In addition, Anfac maintains in the aforementioned document historical claims such as the automotive tax reform, to abolish the registration tax (“which slows down the market and its renewal”) and introduce a use tax that takes into account both air quality and decarbonization”.

Likewise, the automotive lobby calls for a reduced VAT for electric vehicles, the improvement in deductions in remuneration in kind for low- and zero-emission vehicles or a “centralized” structural aid program with an endowment of at least 250 million euros per year. These programs, they say, “should cover both the renewal of older vehicles with new low-emission vehicles, as well as the incorporation into the fleet of alternative vehicles (electrified, hydrogen and gas).

Other requests include establishing a unified register of charging points for electric vehicles before December 31, 2020, as well as ensuring their interoperability, “so that users of an electrified vehicle can recharge in different countries and networks using a single application or card.”

Source: ABC