Name: Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Joint meeting Committee on International Trade Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Joint committee procedure (Rule 59) CJ80 INTA-ITRE-IMCO
Uploaded: 2026-09-28T12:33:15+00:00
Duration: 7695 s

00:00 - 02:33

Speaker 5

Yeah, we've got... And we will start our joint committee meeting. So, 30 seconds for signing the list and we've got one hour. So please, now less than one hour, so please hurry up and we will start. I open our joint committee meeting.

Thanks for coming. Good afternoon everyone. We have to... we've got item one, adoption of agenda. Any remarks? No, so agenda is adopted.

Announcements. Interpretation in 23 languages and of course it is web streamed. And some remarks. First, we will now consider the draft report for the Industrial Accelerator Act. We've got three co-rapporteurs and a lot of shadow rapporteurs from our three committees.

So remember about the time. And I'd like to welcome my dear colleague chair from the INTA committee, Mr. Lange, and from IMCO committee, he will be here soon, Mr. Doležal. And as I mentioned before, we've got... now we've got about 54, 56 minutes for our discussion. So of course first our three co-rapporteurs, then shadow rapporteurs, then we've got rapporteur for opinion from ENVI committee. And if time permits, we will have catch-the-eye and we will give the floor to our guests from Commission.

And we've got Mr. Jean Canton, head of the unit GROW Energy Intensive Industries and Raw Materials. And we will have conclusion from the three co-rapporteurs, three minutes each. And now my role is ended, so I will give the floor to Mr. Lange for chairing this part. Thanks a lot.

02:33 - 02:53

Speaker 2

Thanks a lot, my friend. Dear colleagues, we start now with the rapporteurs. And for four minutes each, I will give the floor first to Anna Cavazzini. She is online with us.

02:53 - 04:40

Speaker 3

Yeah, good afternoon. Sorry that I cannot be there in person, but I was asked to speak in the Bundestag today, in the German Parliament. But thanks for letting me connect online. First of all, I want to thank my two co-rapporteurs for their excellent cooperation on this very important piece of legislation. As you know, the IAA is a very narrow and targeted piece of legislation, but it must have a very direct and tangible impact on firms producing or ready to produce strategic goods.

On the steel companies deciding whether to close shop or to invest millions in their decarbonization. On the European battery companies that must scale up or die. On the car manufacturers taking decisions today that will determine their survival in the next decade. In all the covered sectors, our producers are in direct competition with a non-market economy. So free trade rules were made under the assumption that competition was fair.

It's not anymore. This assumption is no longer valid. So we cannot accept European production disappearing because of distorted global markets. We have to react and this is what we are doing. The IAA's answer, and let me be super clear on that, is not to close down our market or to enter a subsidy race.

It is to support limited but predictable demand. Our draft report is ambitious because I think we need an ambitious report. It takes a stand on the side of European manufacturers. It rejects defeatism. It starts with a narrow EU-27 scope, which can be open to partners if and only if their inclusion does not undermine the demand signal we want and we need to create.