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News from Brussels
The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) welcomes the Clean Industrial Deal, the new Commission flagship project launched today by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
ESPO perceives the document a first but important step to advance on the decarbonisation track, while making Europe more competitive and strong.
More in particular, Europe’s ports support the Commission’s intentions to intensify efforts to ease permitting procedures in Europe, the willingness to look into a more pragmatic approach to the definition of low carbon hydrogen, the proposal to identify and focus on industrial clusters, theinitiatives regarding circular economy, and the plans to lower the energy prices. Europe’s ports also back the Commission‘s understanding that the demand side needs to be boosted in order to build the business case for decarbonised products. Ports share the view that there must be a market in order to successfully attract investors.
“Ports are not only hubs in the supply chain, but through their hub function they are also clustering many industrial activities. We see in the Clean Industrial Deal launched today a lot of understanding of the challenges to combine decarbonisation and competitiveness in Europe. The document is in that sense a good first step, but a lot will depend on its concrete implementation”, says Isabelle Ryckbost, ESPO’s Secretary General.
“To give an example, the last years, important legislative efforts have been made to ease permitting procedures, in particular through the Net-Zero Industry Act and RePowerEU, but very little has changed on the ground. On the contrary, new sectoral legislation risks to further complicate and delay these processes”, adds Isabelle Ryckbost.