Approved on November 27, the new composition of the European Commission will present the text of the Clean Industrial Agreement to stakeholders within the first 100 days of its work.
This was stated by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in her speech at the European Parliament plenary session on the new College of Commissioners and its program.
She announced that the first major initiative of the new Commission will be the Competitiveness Compass, which will define its work for the rest of its term. This Compass will be built on the three pillars of the Draghi report, which are innovation, decarbonization and security.
Ursula von der Leyen recalled the European Green Deal launched 5 years ago and said that the new Commission would stay the course to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal.
The President announced the publication of the Clean Industrial Agreement within the first 100 days of the main EU executive body. She noted that the entire College would work on its development.
Ursula von der Leyen also introduced the members of the European Commission who will coordinate the work in this area:
- Teresa Ribera Rodriguez as the first Executive Vice President for Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition;
- Stéphane Sejourne, who will work as Executive Vice President to bring together industry and internal market dimensions;
- Wopke Hoekstra, who was a key EU negotiator at COP29 and is “working on the path to zero and net growth”;
- Dan Jorgensen will deal with clean energy investments, in particular, to replace natural gas imports from Russia.
“Together, they will tackle the biggest challenges facing our companies,” said the European Commissioner.
According to Ursula von der Leyen, high energy prices are the most important obstacle faced by European companies. She reminded that the EU has already done a lot in response to Russia's energy blackmail. Therefore, the new European Commission plans to further develop and support clean energy. She also expressed confidence that the House of Representatives would support them in this.
Recently, EcoPolitic wrote about the results achieved by the EU at the COP29 climate conference. It is also worth mentioning that on October 30, the European Commission published a draft Commission Implementing Regulation on the authorization of CBAM declarants.
