Ábalos points out the Government's commitment to end regulatory uncertainty in the automotive sector

During his speech, at the inauguration in Madrid of XXIX Faconauto Congress, an employer that integrates associations of official dealers of the automobile brands and agricultural machinery of the market, the minister has referred to transport and mobility as a strategic sector that have a fundamental role in the daily life of citizens.

The head of the Department said that the Government cannot mitigate all the technological uncertainty experienced by the automotive sector, but it will end the regulatory uncertainty.

Ábalos has pointed out that the average mobility expenditure of Spanish families is 13% of total household expenses, only behind housing and food.

This is the reason, as explained by the minister, why it is essential to propose modern mobility policies adapted to the challenges of the s. XXI.

The head of the Department has assured that the changes affect the automotive industry in a sensitive way, as it faces a change in the production model that will be an important challenge but it will also be an opportunity for you to position yourself strongly in the new scenario .

The minister wanted to highlight that from the Government measures such as the Strategic Plan for Integral Support to the Automotive Sector have been designed, which includes support for greater penetration of zero and low emission vehicles, through measures to stimulate demand and the facilitation of the implementation of infrastructures for charging electric vehicles, among others.

In addition, he said that in this legislature it is a priority to address mobility in an integral way, involving different ministerial departments, to offer new solutions for specific mobility needs, such as urban mobility.

The Ministry is working on a new paradigm in which mobility should be considered as a right that guarantees equality and social cohesion, that is, mobility from an integrative perspective in which all agents, administrations and society are are represented, as explained by the minister.

Safe, Sustainable and Connected Mobility Strategy

Ábalos has informed that from his Department work is being carried out on a Mobility, Safe, Sustainable and Connected Strategy, for whose achievement the great basic principles shared in the international sphere are being taken into account: security, sustainability, social cohesion , digitalization and climate emergency.

One of the challenges is to collect in an orderly manner all the initiatives and proposals to facilitate that all the agents involved can move towards the achievement of common objectives, as reported by the minister.

Some of the strategic axes raised by Ábalos are:

• User orientation and mobility as a right and element of social cohesion.
• The review of investment priorities, their financing, and the establishment of common criteria for decision making.
• Energy efficient mobility and adapted to new technologies.

The consequence of the development of the measures included in this Strategy, will lead to the development of a Mobility Law that will allow articulating all these initiatives that, as the minister has indicated, will be a shuttle that will make Spain transit its infrastructure and transport policies from the 20th century towards a safe and sustainable mobility policy, both economically and environmentally, from the 21st century.

Ábalos has concluded by inviting the sector to participate in the new policy of its Department that is characterized by its rationalization and reorientation of resources to address the main challenges of the new times and of our country, which conceives mobility as a right with the will to public service.