From Brussels, the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV) asks the European Commission to lower the pressure on the challenges of decarbonisation.
On an institutional visit, the employers want to influence these days in "the need to extend", due to the current situation, the deadlines of the Fit for 55, the package of measures that the EU has launched with the aim of reducing emissions in the continent by 55% by 2030 and that establishes a strategy to increase the production of renewable energy; as well as to reduce the pressure "to avoid layoffs and transfers of production to third countries".
During the meeting, in which the Deputy Head of Unit for Institutional Affairs and Member States, Yolanda García Mezquita, also took part, Salvador Navarro was interested in the alternatives being considered for Russian fossil fuels, and placed the Community Valenciana as "the best candidate to invest in renewable energies" and has stressed that in the struggle for global hegemony after the pandemic, the European Union cannot remain in a subordinate position, "it must be in the front line".
This was revealed in the meeting that opened the agenda of the CEV's institutional visit to Brussels, in which the socialist MEP in the European Parliament, Inmaculada Rodríguez Piñero, also participated.
At this afternoon's meeting, the Valencian employers' association met with the General Director of Commerce (DG Trade), María Martín Prat, to discuss "the lack of border control" and how it affects companies in the agri-food sector of the Valencian Community. In this sense, the CEV asks that the same regulations and requirements that apply to European companies be applied to companies from third countries and that quality controls be reinforced at the points of entry of goods.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, a meeting will take place with the heads of Plant Health and Crisis Management in Food, Plants and Animals of the European Commission, Bernard Van Goethem and Dorothée André.
They will then meet with the Secretary General of BusinessEurope, Markus Beyrer; with the Deputy Permanent Ambassador of the Permanent Representation of Spain to the EU, Raúl Fuentes, and the program will close with a meeting in the European Parliament with Spanish MEPs from the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) ENVI (Environment, Public Health and Food Health), TRAN (Transport and Tourism), AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) and Valencian MEPs.
