Net-Zero Industry Act: Commission sets a • Table.Briefings

The efforts to keep industries critical for the Green Deal in Europe continue: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are negotiating with US President Joe Biden again and again these days. What the Commission wants to do itself will soon be set out in the Net Zero Industry Act, of which a first draft is now available.

At the closed meeting in Meseberg, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented measures to the German cabinet with which the Commission intends to strengthen industry competitiveness in key technologies of the Green Deal. „It’s about defending the leading position of European companies in the clean-tech sector also in the face of massive US tax breaks through the IRA.“ He said that in the case of cars, access to the US market for European manufacturers has already been successfully secured. „For batteries and other components, we still have to work on a solution,“ von der Leyen said at a press conference with Olaf Scholz.

Net-Zero Industry Act: Commission sets ambitious targets for climate technologies

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