Calculation of heavy-duty vehicles emission credits 2025-2029

Key points

The EESC:

1. acknowledges the importance of the automotive industry in the European economy regarding job creation, value added to the economy and society as a whole and recognises that for manufacturers to maintain their global competitiveness, particularly against heavily subsidised international actors, and to protect highly skilled jobs, a supportive regulatory framework is essential. However, the automotive industry needs to be part of the collective effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
2. believes that the effort should be equitably spread between producers (supply-side), transportation companies and shippers (demand-side) and the state/energy sector (charging infrastructure as an enabling condition) and points to the necessity of enabling conditions;
3. recommends maintaining the indexation of credit and penalty calculations to the year 2025 until the year 2027. This temporary approach provides short-term flexibility to avoid immediate penalties while preserving long-term integrity of climate policy and predictability of economic policies.