22/02/2023 (Agence Europe) – Nine organisations, including the International Automobile Federation, Insurance Europe and CLEPA, issued a joint statement, on Tuesday 21 February, opposing the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association’s (ACEA) call for the European Commission to postpone its legislative proposal on access to in-vehicle data, functions and resources. On 15 February, the ACEA had stated that it was better to wait and analyse the impact of the Data Act (see EUROPE 13116/7). The signatories of the joint statement, on the other hand, believe that the Commission has already widely documented - through studies and public consultation - that there are intrinsic systemic barriers to vehicle design and that the Commission itself had underlined that “new rules are needed to make the existing vehicle type-approval legislation fit for the digital age and to support the development of clean, connected and automated vehicles”. (TM)