Before opening the call for Perte VEC II, which aims to distribute the more than 2,100 million euros that were left out of the first industrial promotion initiative, the Ministry of Industry has created the Alianza del Perte VEC, an organization in which The actors of the automotive value chain participate, whose objective is to coordinate the projects that are part of these aids.
The Alianza del Perte is part of the Automotive table –composed of sectoral associations such as Anfac, Faconauto, Ganvam or Aedive; representatives of regional governments or the CCOO and UGT unions–, as well as the inter-ministerial working group responsible for the strategic project, which includes the portfolios of Industry, Finance, Economy, Science, Education and Transport.
The Automotive Roundtable has been an instrument criticized, given that it has barely had two meetings since its creation in 2020. The federation of official dealers, Faconautoaffirms that this “has not had the periodicity or the content that the sector requires”.
In any case, the Alianza del Perte – chaired by the still Minister of Industry, maroto kings– It is a first first step so that the actors involved can better coordinate and extend their concerns to the Government. The biggest of these is whether hybrid engines will finally be able to access the funds in the second call.
Although this has not been settled and has been one of the main points requested by the representatives of Andalusia and Castilla y León, regions in which the Renault Group has production centers, everything points to the fact that they will not be able to receive European funds for not respecting the DNSH environmental protection condition required by Brussels.
This had already been anticipated by Jose Maria Lopez, vice president of the new Alianza del Perte, in the latest installment of the ABC Award for Best Car of the Year. There, he also explained the easing of the conditions of the new Perte call, as well as the creation of a new line of simple competition that will allow individual projects to be integrated that were left out of the first edition.
Dealers, inside?
One of the main requests by Ganvam and Faconauto was precisely that the distribution sector could access the funds contemplated in the Perte VEC. However, Industry expressly stated that these could only be extended to actors in the industrial fabric español.
However, the new line of simple competition has apparently opened a door for dealers to qualify for European aid. From Ganvam, its CEO, Fernando Miguelz He stated: “The fact that Industry recognizes the role of sellers and repairmen as drivers of electric mobility will allow employment to be protected and objectives to be accelerated.”