EP TRAN Com m ittee: 1 2 April 2 0 1 8 GEAR 2 0 3 0 Gw enole - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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EP TRAN Com m ittee:

1 2 April 2 0 1 8

GEAR 2 0 3 0 –

Gw enole Cozigou, Director DG GROW

I ndustrial Transform ation & Advanced Value Chains

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GEAR 2 0 3 0 – High Level Group

Main objectives:

• Develop medium & long-term recommendations to

address the challenges and take advantage of

• pportunities;
• Focus on key priority areas; and
• Build consensus & political support for the way forward.

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EU Autom otive Sector

• EU automotive sector at the heart of Europe’s

industrial landscape:

• 1 2 m illion employed in automotive & mobility sectors

(3.3 million in manufacturing);

• € 9 0 billion positive trade balance; and
• € 5 0 billion in R&D.
• Sector essential to Europe’s economic future

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GEAR Report

Focus:

• challenges;
• competitiveness;
• value chain;
• decarbonisation and zero emission vehicles;

and

• automated vehicles and connected driving.

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Challenges

• Five key challenges:
• New technologies & business models;
• Climate, environment and health;
• Societal changes;
• Globalisation; and
• Structural Change.

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Com petitiveness

W ay forw ard:

• Need to ensure there is a robust regulatory and

policy environment in the EU

• Strengthen global technical harmonisation (i.e.

UNECE)

• Strengthen fight against unfair trade practices

and protectionism

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The Value Chain - Skills

Challenges:

• Poor image of manufacturing sector in the eyes of young

talent;

• Ageing workforce;
• Ever-accelerating pace of technological changes; &
• Failure of national education systems to produce

appropriately skilled graduates.

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The Value Chain - Skills

W ay forw ard:

• Erasm us + project: DRIVES
• 4 year project started in January 2018
• Bring all relevant stakeholders together and will address

GEAR recommendations

• COSME – Call to be launched shortly
• 18 month project to complement DRIVES
• focus on benchmarking and identifying best practice

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Decarbonisation - Batteries

Challenges - general

• Environmental – reducing greenhouse gas emissions
• Public health – improve air quality
• Technological – ensure European leadership

Challenges - Batteries

• Are the key enabling technology for e-mobility
• Exponential growth in demand for batteries expected
• EU lacks battery cell manufacturing at scale

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European Battery Alliance

• Implement GEAR call to support multi-

stakeholder collaborative projects on battery cell manufacturing

• Some progress already with consortia being

established.

• Battery Action Plan – part of the III Mobility

Package in May

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Autom ated & Connected Vehicles ( ACV)

GEAR highlighted need for:

• Development & coordination of large scale open

road testing & trials;

• Better coordination of funding for strategic

planning to support ACV;

• Revision of national traffic rules;
• Development of rules on data recording and

access; &

• Take account of societal challenges & acceptance
• f ACV in in relevant EU policies & strategies

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Autom ated & Connected Vehicles ( ACV)

Objectives:

• Key technologies are developed in Europe;
• Safety; &
• Legal framework takes account of technological progress

W ay forw ard: An EU Strategy for Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility W hen: part of the Third Mobility Package in May

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Conclusions

Contribution of GEAR:

• The Report is:
• Operational,
• Ambitious, and
• Balanced
• Created a common understanding of key

challenges and potential opportunities;

• The EU now has a framework for taking actions to

support this strategic sector; and

• The Commission is determined to play its part in

delivering the GEAR recommendations.

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Thank You