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The CIELFFA Annual Meeting 2024 took place in Linz on November 12, 2024. The meeting began on Tuesday afternoon with the general meeting, which was opened by Dr. Foltz from the PwC consulting agency strategy&, who spoke about the latest developments in the automotive market. Among other things, he provided information on how strong the competition from Chinese brands in Europe currently is and which factors could promote or prevent growth. In general, developments on the automotive market are currently rather difficult to predict, so that we have to be prepared for volatile developments.

Mr. Schönemeyer then spoke about the CBAM and addressed various aspects such as the changes that the 'definitive regime' will bring from 2026 on or the risks arising from the fact that exports are not taken into account by the CBAM.

As a third contribution, Ms. Gabilondo (Arania) gave an very interesting overview of the developments on the cold rolling market and explained these in relation to the European economic development as well as to similar developments on the steel and automotive markets.

At the subsequent general meeting, CIELFFA members re-elected Mr. Ramis as President and Chairman for Economical Studies and Mr. Ullrich as Chairman for Technical Studies for three years. We congratulate both of them on their re-election and look forward to our continued cooperation!

The annual meeting ended with a networking dinner at the Promenadenhof in Linz.

The following day, all participants had the opportunity to visit EBNER in Leonding and find out about the latest technological developments.

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The working group agreed on an addition to the CO₂ guideline regarding the regulation of scrap. In order to ensure a uniform regulation for the inclusion of scrap, point 6.1. has been newly added as well as the last paragraph under point 10. This procedure has been also agreed with the certification company.

Please further note that the guideline is not binding for the undertakings involved. The undertakings shall remain free to apply any alternative calculation method.

The latest and amended version of the guideline can be downloaded here .

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On April 23, 2024, the first meeting of the newly formed CBAM expert group of DG TAXUD (Taxation and Customs Union) took place. The new CBAM group includes representatives from EU countries, (industry) associations and NGOs as well as observers from third countries. As a CIELFFA representative, Mr. Schoenemeyer is a member of this working group. The task of this group is to advise the European Commission during the current transitional phase of the CBAM and to help to design future regulations which will apply for the final phase.

Here are some of the results of the first meeting:

• DG TAXUD presented the work plan until 2025: The CBAM Regulation is to be revised slightly in 2025, but only with regard to some technical aspects, which will then come into effect in 2026. More substantial changes, such as a possible extension of CBAM to other sectors or products in downstream stages of the value chain, will only take place at a later date.
• The Commission plans a report by the end of 2024 on the further planning of such a possible extension to downstream products.
• DG TAXUD presented initial results and experiences from the Q4 2024 reporting quarter: over 15,300 completed reports were submitted for this period, with around 3,000 remaining in draft status. With around 2,200 reports, the largest number of reports came from Germany, followed by Poland (2,000) and Italy (1,900). The largest quantities of CBAM imports came from Ukraine, Turkey, China, Canada and Brazil.

CBAM Information:

More information about CBAM on the website of DG TAXUD

FAQs of DG TAXUD (pdf)