In the context of EU legislation on achieving zero-emission road mobility by 2035, the CoR's Automotive Regions Alliance (ARA) has launched an initiative to develop concepts and ideas on how to measure the transition of these regions in future.
The seminar has the following objectives:
- to present the study “State of play and future challenges of automotive regions”– a potential Just Transition Monitoring Programme and its consequences for the regions;
- to show examples of how regions are measuring the transformation and what we can learn from them;
- to engage with leading representatives of the European Commission (DG GROW) on how this can help to come forward with an EU-wide monitoring tool that could be the basis for the 2025 monitoring report (see Recital 16 and Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2019/631 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2023/851);
- to discuss with relevant Directorate-Generals (DGs) of the European Commission how to address the challenges of the Just Transition of automotive regions today and in the future.
The discussions over the course of the seminar are intended to contribute to a better understanding of the form that a mapping and monitoring exercise of automotive regions could take in the years ahead.
Interpreting will be available from and to English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Romanian.
The Automotive Regions Alliance (ARA) is a political network of regions committed to the successful transition of the European automotive and supply industry. The Alliance is an initiative of the European Committee of the Regions. It aims to bring together regions with a strong automotive and supply sector that want to play an active role in decarbonising the transport sector and to contribute to the objectives of the European Green Deal, while strengthening regional industrial ecosystems and value creation, as well as ensuring economic and social cohesion in every European region impacted by the transition. You can find more information on ARA.