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Ref. Ares(2020)3731150 - 15/07/2020
From:
To:
CAB BRETON CONTACT
Cc:
; CAUDET Lucia (CAB-BRETON); JORNA Kerstin (GROW); 
Subject:
Letter From ACEA 
 to Commissioner Breton.
Date:
vendredi 19 juin 2020 10:34:31
Attachments:
Letter From ACEA
 to Comissioner Breton.pdf
Dear Commissioner Breton,
Please find attached the letter the President of the European Automobile Manufacturers'
Association – ACEA, 
 is sending to you.
This matter is urgent, the topic is very important for ACEA members, as the CEO’s in the board
decided (the CEO list is included in the letter).
Please have a look and let us know as soon as possible.
The European car manufacturers - responsible for tens of millions of jobs and billions of euro in
innovation as you know – could not sell the produced cars during the crisis in the last 3-4 months
with many Covid-19 lockdowns.
The current starting production cannot be sold soon, as a result of new and not yet postponed
regulations going into force. For heavy vans and ambulances this already kicks in on September
1st , 2020.
We have asked your Director General, Kerstin Jorna and team to support our ecosystem, we
gave her and her team all the information they asked for. But this week I heard they are not very
hopeful.
We have not seen any support for getting relief on the most urgent topic: Euro 6 d so far. We
clearly indicated several times this is the most urgent issue now!
Details you will find in the letter, and we can explain you a delay will not cause more emissions,
as it is mostly technical.
As we discussed in the meeting with you and EVP Timmermans, speed is of the essence.
We need this covid-19 related relief soon, its not to late but we also know our members are
already anticipating layoffs of tenths of thousands of workers all over Europe.
You can support us now by postponing these immediate regulations by only 6 months as we
requested several months ago. We want to keep this European industry strong.
Other countries like China and Japan are already postponing similar regulations by 6 – 12
months, they will gain a strong competitive advantage if we are not acting in Europe.
Mr
 would like to discuss this matter with you as soon as possible.
Please let us know when you are available.
European Automobile Manufacturers' Association – ACEA 
Avenue des Nerviens 85 | B-1040 Brussels | www.acea.be @ACEA eu
T +32 2 
 | M +32 
  
@acea.be
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