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The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Ltd.

SMMT

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) exists to support and promote the interests of the UK automotive industry at home and abroad.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Simone Ritzek-Seidl (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas)

18 Dec 2025 · Local content requirements in the Automotive Package

Meeting with Jens Gieseke (Member of the European Parliament) and European Community Shipowners' Associations and

13 May 2025 · Austausch zu EU Politik

Meeting with Sandro Gozi (Member of the European Parliament, Delegation chair)

12 May 2025 · EU-UK Trade and cooperation agreement

Meeting with Mark Nicklas (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

12 May 2025 · Exchange of views on automotive industry in EU-UK context

Meeting with Jan Hendrik Dopheide (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič)

4 Mar 2025 · Introductory meeting / EU-UK relations

Response to Transitional measures for smart tachograph 2 regarding its use of OSNMA

7 Mar 2023

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited (SMMT) fully supports the joint position paper of ACEA, CECRA and CLCCR on the smart tachograph version 2 transitional measures regarding use of OSNMA. The SMMT would also like to add further comments as per the attachment.
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Response to Regulation complementing EU type-approval legislation with regard to the UK withdrawal from the EU (Brexit preparedness)

9 May 2018

SMMT supports the Commission’s regulatory initiative to implement an efficient administrative mechanism that will enable the transfer of UK issued approvals to an EU-27 Member State, preventing those affected manufacturers from having to replicate the full approval process. SMMT believes no manufacturer should be disadvantaged or face additional regulatory burden due to the fact they originally obtained a type approval from the UK authority. SMMT therefore encourages the urgent publication of this Commission proposal so to provide manufacturers greater clarity, allowing them to make effective businesses decisions in the months leading to Brexit. Please find attached SMMT's full response to the Commission legislative proposal.
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Response to Improving the emissions legislation for Light Duty Vehicles

5 Apr 2018

SMMT welcomes the opportunity to respond to the European Commission’s public consultation on “Improving the emissions legislation for Light Duty Vehicles” and the intended clarifications and improvements made to the emissions legislation in the draft text. We appreciate the amount of effort from the European Commission and the other stakeholders in the development and drafting of this proposal. The UK automotive industry has contributed positively to the discussions on these issues and will continue to do so in the future to ensure that this legislation is clear, robust, proportionate and above all, effective. To this end, we would also like to make some further observations and requests for amendments which can be found in the attached document.
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