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September 12 2025
Strategic automotive dialogue: CLIFA stresses the need to adopt European local content measures
As part of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry on Friday, September 12, 2025, CLIFA (Comité de Liaison des Industries Fournisseurs de l'Automobile), which brings together six organizations representing French automotive suppliers, including the Fédération Forge Fonderie, calls on the European Commission to finally take urgent and concrete decisions in favor of European local content.
A meeting in a context of structural crisis
China is aggressively competing with the entire European automotive industry, as has been repeatedly highlighted by the European Commission. The Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry meeting is taking place against the backdrop of an unprecedented crisis for the European automotive ecosystem: excluding Germany, Europe is experiencing a veritable collapse with a deficit that has increased 15-fold, exploding from €0.5 billion in 2014 to €7.6 billion in 2024 (Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security).
For equipment manufacturers and suppliers, this meeting represents a crucial opportunity to once again raise the alarm about the specific threats weighing on the European automotive supply chain and the planned disappearance of the industrial ecosystem of European automotive suppliers if the Commission fails to take strong measures.
CLIFA reiterates its urgent call for European local content measures
Le CLIFA salue la volonté de la Commission européenne de renforcer le “Made in Europe” dans son plan d’action pour l’industrie automobile, notamment par l’introduction de ce critère dans les marchés publics, ainsi que l’annonce de la Présidente Ursula von der Leyen, dans le cadre de son discours sur l’état de l’Union 2025, d’une initiative en faveur d’une « E-car » européenne. Mais la Commission doit aller plus loin et traduire dans les faits le concept de “Made in Europe”.
S’appuyant sur ses préconisations formulées en juin 2025 et sur une étude technique approfondie du Gerpisa (Groupe d’études et de Recherche Permanent sur L’industrie et les Salariés de l’Automobile), le CLIFA appelle la Commission Européenne à officialiser immédiatement l’instauration d’un seuil de contenu local européen à 80% pour la qualification “fabriqué en Europe” de tous les véhicules légers et composants automobiles afin de préserver le niveau actuel de production européenne.
Au-delà de la nécessité d’une politique européenne de compétitivité forte, cette règle d’origine européenne (et définition du « fabriqué en Europe ») vise à créer un cadre concurrentiel adapté aux réalités industrielles permettant à l’industrie automobile de rester ancrée en Europe. Elle doit constituer un levier transversal d’intervention publique, applicable aux politiques commerciales, aux marchés publics européens, aux politiques de soutien à la demande, à l’encadrement des investissements directs étrangers et aux aides d’État sectorielles dans le futur « Clean Industrial State Aid framework ».
“Ce Dialogue stratégique constitue un moment de vérité pour l’industrie automobile européenne. Alors que la Commission active la clause de revoyure de l’interdiction 2035 des motorisations thermiques et envisage des aménagements réglementaires, l’Europe ne peut plus se contenter d’ajustements à la marge. Face à l’érosion accélérée de notre base industrielle, elle doit déployer des instruments de politique industrielle à la hauteur des enjeux géoéconomiques. L’instauration de règles d’origine à 80% représente un impératif de souveraineté économique” interpellent les organisations du CLIFA.
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