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5G Automotive Association

5GAA

The 5G Automotive Association is a global cross-industry organization bridging automotive and telecommunications.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Aymard De Touzalin (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and GSMA Europe

20 Jun 2025 · Transition to post-quantum cryptography in the automotive sector

Response to Interim evaluation of the Connecting Europe Facility 2021-2027

24 Sept 2024

5GAA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the CEF2 interim report and would like to emphasize the critical importance of the CEF Digital programme as a cornerstone for advancing connectivity in Europe. The financial backing provided by the CEF Digital programme is essential for the large-scale deployment of 5G corridors, which are key enablers for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM). The European Commission has previously recognized the significance of 5G corridors in achieving Europes Digital Decade targets for 2030, underscoring the need for sustained investment in this area. 5G-enabled CAM services play a key role in enhancing road safety, optimizing traffic flow, reducing congestion and accidents, and lowering CO2 emissions. We take this opportunity to continue to advocate for connectivity infrastructure for the widespread adoption of CAM through C-V2X technology.
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Response to Update of standards for the 112-based eCall in-vehicle systems

24 Nov 2023

On behalf of more than 120 members, the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is pleased to provide comments on the suggested DR amending Regulation (EU) 2015/758 on updated standards for in-vehicle emergency call systems (eCall) based on 4G/5G eCall modems. We welcome the proposed update to the 112-based eCall in-vehicle system (eCall) standards and wholeheartedly support the Commission in making sure that future vehicles are designed with Next-Generation eCall (NG eCall) specifications in mind as soon as possible. Moreover, we would like to emphasise the vital need of the European industry for the swift introduction of clear rules for the implementation of NG eCall. Please find our response, in full, attached.
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Meeting with Kateřina Konečná (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles and

9 Mar 2023 · ITS Directive Revision

Meeting with Dominique Riquet (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Jun 2022 · Infrastructures de transport

Meeting with Kateřina Konečná (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

14 Jun 2022 · Revision of the ITS Directive

5G Automotive Association urges digital infrastructure for European transport networks

10 Jun 2022
Topic — A revision of the guidelines for developing the trans-European transport network infrastructure.
Message — The association supports requirements for high-quality digital infrastructure to enable intelligent transport services. They urge Member States to ensure uninterrupted connectivity across corridors to reach higher automation levels.123
Why — Standardized infrastructure and public funding will boost the commercial market for their connected vehicle technologies.45
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5GAA demands technology neutrality for European transport systems

18 Mar 2022
Topic — This consultation addresses the revision of rules for intelligent transport systems deployment.
Message — 5GAA requests adding technology neutrality while removing counter-productive backward compatibility requirements. They argue the Commission must not mandate specific technologies via delegated acts. Finally, they propose an inclusive definition of communication systems that includes mobile networks.123
Why — The organization ensures that its members' 5G investments are not undermined by mandates.4
Impact — Legacy hardware manufacturers lose the regulatory guarantee that new systems remain backward compatible.5
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Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

8 Dec 2021 · connected mobility

Response to Requirements for Artificial Intelligence

6 Aug 2021

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Artificial Intelligence Act and share our recommendations to help the EU adopt future-proof legislation accelerating the market entry of connected and automated vehicles and smart mobility services while ensuring innovation in the long run. The EU is likely to become one of the first, if not the first, regions of the world to define rules about the placing on the market of artificial intelligence solutions. This will contribute to defining world-class standards and improve the trust of consumers. We respectfully invite European policymakers to recognise the evolutionary path of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, while stimulating an effective competition on the merits by providing the wider industrial ecosystem of connected and automated vehicles with clear, predictable and concise criteria for the application of the Artificial Intelligence Act. 5GAA is a global, cross-industry organisation of more than 125 automotive, technology, and telecommunications (ICT) companies, working together to develop end-to-end connectivity solutions for future mobility and transportation services. 5GAA bridges the automotive and telecommunication industries to address society’s connected mobility and road safety needs with applications such as automated driving, ubiquitous access to services, integration into intelligent transportation and traffic management. To read the full 5GAA position, please see the attached file
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5G Automotive Association urges technology-neutral rules for intelligent transport

19 Nov 2020
Topic — Revision of EU rules to coordinate and accelerate intelligent transport systems deployment.
Message — The 5GAA advocates for technology-neutral rules focusing on service-level interoperability over specific radio standards. They insist that vehicle data sharing must remain voluntary and market-based rather than legally mandated. They also request dedicated EU funding to support the rollout of C-V2X connectivity.123
Why — A technology-neutral approach ensures legal certainty for their members' investments in 5G-V2X technologies.4
Impact — Third-party app developers and road authorities lose guaranteed, non-commercial access to vehicle data.5
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Response to Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy

30 Jul 2020

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global, cross-industry organisation of more than 130 automotive, technology, and telecommunications (ICT) companies, working together to develop end-to-end connectivity solutions for future mobility and transportation services. 5GAA bridges the automotive and telecommunication industries to address society’s connected mobility and road safety needs with applications such as automated driving, ubiquitous access to services, integration into intelligent transportation and traffic management. 5GAA welcomes the initiative of the European Commission to adopt a comprehensive strategy to meet the Green Deal targets to reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions and to ensure that the EU transport sector is fit for a clean, digital and modern economy. Europe’s green and digital objectives are closely connected: only by boosting Europe’s action in the field of digitalisation, we can achieve the climate targets for 2050. In this regard, Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) will be a stepping stone to improve road transport’s environmental footprint. This positive impact is expected to result from a host of sources, e.g. a reduction of congestion, thus of fuel consumption, the increase of shared mobility as well as potential synergies with the development of clean mobility. The combination of 5G connectivity, internet of things (IoT) services and artificial intelligence-based functionalities will re-shape our economies in the coming years. An important share of socio-economic benefits can be derived from use cases that are enabled and/or supported by Vehicle to-Network (V2N) communications along with Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to Infrastructure (V2I) connectivity. In addition to safety gains (reducing road accidents), it will produce more efficient rides, minimising travel times, traffic jams and improving environmental footprint. Whenever a use case has an impact on safety, it also has a positive impact on congestion, emissions and, therefore, public expenditure, but also public satisfaction and acceptance, as there are fewer accidents and traffic flow is more fluid. To read the full 5GAA position, please see the attached document.
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Response to Review of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive (Directive 2014/61/EU)

17 Jul 2020

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global, cross-industry organisation of more than 130 automotive, technology, and telecommunications (ICT) companies, working together to develop end-to-end connectivity solutions for future mobility and transportation services. 5GAA bridges the automotive and telecommunication industries to address society’s connected mobility and road safety needs with applications such as automated driving, ubiquitous access to services, integration into intelligent transportation and traffic management. 5GAA welcomes the initiative of the European Commission to review the Broadband Cost Directive (BCRD). The revision is a good step towards completion of the common EU broadband targets for 2025, and as per Commission’s objectives in 5G Action Plan, to ensure uninterrupted 5G wireless broadband coverage in all urban areas as well as major roads and railways, starting with fully-fledged commercial service in at least one major city in each EU member state already by 2020. To read the full 5GAA position, please see the attached file
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Response to European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport

27 Aug 2019

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global, cross-industry organisation of more than 120 companies from the automotive, technology, and telecommunications industries (ICT), working together to develop end-to-end connectivity solutions for future mobility and transportation services. 5GAA welcomes the opportunity to give feedback on the proposal of the European Commission to establish a European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport. The next years are crucial to set Europe at the forefront of the development of Connected and Automated Mobility and to guarantee the safe and sustainable mobility of citizens in Europe while maintaining a global competitive edge. 5GAA believes the co-programmed European Partnership inside the Horizon Europe programme is an important step forward to guarantee an effective and timely collaboration between the Commission and the partners, hence increasing R&I initiatives. With short innovation cycles and increasingly fast-acting competition from the other leading regions like the United States, Japan, Korea and China, Europe needs to accelerate both innovation and enable rapid market implementation. 5GAA strongly supports the need for effective cooperation between the European Commission and stakeholders to tackle the challenges as well as embrace the opportunity of the development of the Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility in Europe. In this regard, 5GAA’s members are actively working on a strategic plan of innovation and deployment of Connected and Automated Mobility internally and therefore encourage the creation of a Horizon Europe partnership with similar aims. To effectively reinforce this collaboration, 5GAA and its 120 global industry members support the creation of a co-programmed European partnership (Option 1). This partnership should bring together key actors of the European Automotive and Telecommunication sectors and thus find considerable synergies with the 5G action plan in order to reinforce the technological position of Europe on the global market. The European partnership should also allow for more flexibility of the different programs and projects to adapt to the rapidly changing technological and business development of the CCAM with swift and timely research actions with a minimum administrative burden and high flexibility.
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Response to Specifications for the provision of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS)

8 Feb 2019

5GAA advocates for a forward-looking regulatory framework for C-ITS, which endorses market-led solutions and supports technological evolution. 5GAA considers that the future C-ITS regulatory framework must abide wholly by the principle of technology neutrality to prevent unfair market distortion and enable unhindered technological development thus maximizing C-ITS safety and traffic efficiency for the benefit of EU citizens. Regrettably, the draft Delegated Regulation contradicts the Commission’s commitment to an open and future-proof approach to standards and legislation, by exclusively embracing ITS-G5 (IEEE 802.11p – derived from Wi-Fi) based communications, excluding other available and mature technologies such as LTE-V2X (both for direct short-range or long-range communications). As 5GAA, we reiterate our position that the Delegated Regulation should not be picking technology winners, but should allow the creation of a landscape with equal opportunities for all automakers, suppliers and other stakeholders aiming to support the deployment of C-ITS. We emphasise that LTE-V2X is the only platform which offers a clear evolutionary roadmap towards 5G for connected vehicles and road infrastructure While the 5GAA considers that LTE-V2X should be included in the Delegated Regulation, we welcome the incorporation of a fast-track update process of the Delegated Regulation as described in Art. 33. However, the draft text still imposes discriminatory obligations which would require technologies other than ITS-G5, such as LTE-V2X, to bear the full responsibility of ensuring interoperability. We believe interoperability should be a shared duty between ITS-G5 and LTE-V2X. In addition, a minimum market penetration threshold should be specified before considering any technology as “existing” under this Regulation. 5GAA, therefore, call upon the Commission to: •Amend the draft Delegated Regulation to include LTE-V2X both short-range and long-range communications, via the related ETSI approved specifications and profiles on an equal footing with ITS-G5; •Define interoperability as a “mutual” requirement among mature C-ITS technologies, namely ITS-G5 and LTE-V2X for short & long-range communications; •Avoid legal uncertainty on the “fast-track” update process by: -Introducing a 6-month deadline for the Commission to make its decision publicly known as regards the initiation of an amendment procedure to include new technologies (e.g., 5G-V2X) or new C-ITS services; -Specifying clearly the terms, conditions and processes for the inclusion of other technologies (e.g. 5G-V2X) or C-ITS services, including unambiguous definitions of terms such as “existing”, “maturity” or “migration path”, etc.; -Include as an Annex to the Delegated Regulation a template for the “technical file” to be submitted. -Open up participation in the future C-ITS Expert Group to representatives of technology segments that are not within the scope of the draft Delegated Regulation today We note that all elements required in the proposed process for updating the draft Regulation are already met by LTE-V2X: - All required profiles/technical specifications for LTE-V2X have been adopted by European SDOs; -Multiple vendors have already commercialised LTE-V2X short-range hardware and software solutions in Q1 2019 (and more are announced for Q2 2019); We also underline that many of the C-ITS priority services listed in Annex I of the draft Delegated Regulation have already been implemented using 3G and 4G (LTE) cellular networks for long-range communications (e.g. traffic jams, weather conditions, road works, etc.). Yet, this reality is not accounted for by the draft text which still only foresees the initial deployment of these services exclusively via ITS-G5 for short-range communications. We elaborate further on the above items in the attached contribution, with proposals for specific amendments to the draft Delegated Regulation and supporting materials.
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Meeting with Silke Obst (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

4 Feb 2019 · C-ITS Delegated act

Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

27 Nov 2018 · Delegated Act on C-ITS

Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

12 Jun 2018 · C-ITS and Third Mobility Package

Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

12 Jun 2018 · C-ITS Delegated Regulation

Meeting with Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

16 Jan 2018 · Meeting on the role of satellite in 5G

Meeting with Friedrich-Nikolaus von Peter (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

19 Oct 2017 · EU regulatory framework for connected and automated cars

Meeting with Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

19 Oct 2017 · Connected and autonomous vehicles

Meeting with Ivo Schmidt (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

19 Oct 2017 · connected and automative cars

Meeting with Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

19 Oct 2017 · Connected and automated cars

Meeting with Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

19 Oct 2017 · Connected & automated cars, C-ITS