Impact of COVID-19 on the automotive industry and its transformation
11.5.2020
Question for written answer E-002890/2020
to the Commission
Rule 138
Adriana Maldonado López (S&D), Nicolás González Casares (S&D), Lina Gálvez Muñoz (S&D), Alicia Homs Ginel (S&D), César Luena (S&D), Isabel García Muñoz (S&D), Inma Rodríguez-Piñero (S&D), Clara Aguilera (S&D), Estrella Durá Ferrandis (S&D), Ibán García Del Blanco (S&D), Juan Fernando López Aguilar (S&D), Cristina Maestre Martín De Almagro (S&D), Domènec Ruiz Devesa (S&D), Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D), Eider Gardiazabal Rubial (S&D), Javi López (S&D), Javier Moreno Sánchez (S&D), Marcos Ros Sempere (S&D), Mónica Silvana González (S&D)
Having completely frozen production, the automotive industry, a strategic industry for many countries, including Spain, is undoubtedly being severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. What is more, the rapid advances towards electric mobility and the carbon emissions reduction goal have resulted in a series of legislative, technological, cultural and economic changes, which, in turn, have resulted in changes to the sector’s value chains.
Commissioner Thierry Breton announced that the Commission was allocating 10% of the proposed recovery fund to the automotive sector. Some funds would go to recovery itself and the rest to transforming the sector to enable it to handle the new challenges, including energy transformation and digitalisation.
- 1.Does the Commission take that view that, given the situation, the proposed amount will be enough for all companies to recover and overcome the transformation challenges that they are facing?
- 2.What other measures could be taken to help their recovery and ensure that the new public funding policy does not lead to unfair competition between the Member States?