CECRA wants more progress

Recently, the European Council for Motor Trades and Repairs (CECRA) met with the Head of the Commission’s Sustainable Mobility and Automotive Industry unit. Philippe Jean will be replaced next week in its function by Joanna Szychowska who is already working in the DG. Both EC representatives repeated that the Commission wants a solution for outstanding issues in vertical agreements between manufacturers and dealers, and this before the end of the year.

In case the discussions between the representatives of the manufacturers and dealers would not lead to an acceptable solution for both parties, the Commission said that its position has not changed and that, according to the final report of CARS 2020, the Commission “reserves the right to initiate a process, with the aim of adopting a legislative proposal regulating relations between different players of the automotive sector”.

CECRA’s Board members Jaap Timmer (Chairman European Car Dealers) and Gustav Oberwallner, and CECRA’s Director General Bernard Lycke emphasised the need to achieve more progress, as in the last three years, a lot of talking has taken place without many tangible results.