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Volvo Cars

Volvo Car Corporation is a major Swedish automotive manufacturer transitioning to fully electric vehicles.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

10 Dec 2025 · S&D Stakeholder Exchange on the automotive package

Meeting with Adnan Dibrani (Member of the European Parliament) and Google and

9 Dec 2025 · Digital frågor, Digital Omnibus

Volvo urges EU to modernize origin rules for software-intensive vehicles

2 Dec 2025
Topic — Evaluation of EU rules determining product nationality for trade and tariff policies.
Message — Volvo requests urgent clarification that customs authorities must follow Union Customs Code Article 60 rather than treating Commission guidelines as binding rules. They argue origin rules should encourage EU production and innovation instead of punishing incomplete supply chains, and should recognize value from software and services.123
Why — This would allow their software-intensive electric vehicles to qualify as European origin despite global supply chains.45
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Meeting with Jens Gieseke (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2025 · Austausch zu EU-Verkehrspolitik

Meeting with Elena Martines (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva)

19 Nov 2025 · Exchange of views on R&I and general cooperation matters, including a short discussion on possible areas where future coordination could be explored.

Volvo Urges Specific Automotive Rules in Circular Economy Act

6 Nov 2025
Topic — EU consultation on accelerating the transition toward sustainable and circular production.
Message — Volvo requests strategic investment in regional recycling hubs and financial incentives like VAT reductions. They also advocate for new accounting methods that recognize the environmental benefits of circularity.12
Why — This would help Volvo improve resource productivity and secure investor confidence for circular models.34
Impact — Global competitors like China and the US lose market share as Europe gains competitive edge.5
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Meeting with Mark Nicklas (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

14 Oct 2025 · Implementation of Automotive Action Plan

Meeting with Matthieu Moulonguet (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra) and ChargeUp Europe and

14 Oct 2025 · Automotive action plan and CO2 standards

Meeting with Adam Romanowski (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič)

14 Oct 2025 · Discussion on Trade Measures and Supply Chain Dependencies in EU-US-China Relation and the automotive sector.

Response to Roadmap towards Nature Credits

12 Sept 2025

Volvo Cars welcomes the European Commissions initiative to develop a roadmap for nature credits and particularly values the recognition of the need for public seed funding and the linkage with the Nature Restoration Regulation, which together provide a strong foundation for fostering collaboration between public and private actors. In 2024, Volvo Cars published a position paper on nature and biodiversity and launched the Volvo for Life Fund to protect and restore nature near our operations. As outlined in our position paper, we are working to understand and reduce our biodiversity footprint across the value chain. Through initiatives such as the Volvo for Life Fund, we have gained practical insights into the opportunities and challenges of engaging with nature-positive actions from a corporate perspective. We believe that for nature credits to become a viable and impactful instrument, the roadmap should place greater emphasis on the creation of credible and sustained market demand. While the global funding gap for nature is well established, the commercial rationale for companies to invest in voluntary nature credits remains underdeveloped. The private sector may find it challenging to justify investments in nature credits in the absence of clear incentives such as regulatory drivers, clear consumer demand, financial benefits like improved credit ratings or reduced capital costs from investors or insurers, or the prospect of financial returns through a semi-fungible or fungible trading market of nature credits. To ensure the framework reflects both scientific integrity and practical business realities, we recommend including robust representation from the private sector in the expert group consultations. Furthermore, we note that there are differing views among key stakeholders, including NGOs, regarding the high-integrity use cases of nature credits. Greater clarity from the EU on the intended use cases of nature credits, whether for insetting, positive contribution, or compensation, and the conditions under which offsetting or trading may be considered acceptable, would help build trust and integrity in the emerging market. We also encourage the roadmap to reinforce the mitigation hierarchy, ensuring that companies first prioritize reducing their own biodiversity footprint. In this context, the development of standardized units to measure positive biodiversity outcomes and greater clarity on how measurement of nature-positive outcome can be meaningfully linked and compared with footprint assessments will be essential. Terminology is another area where further precision would be beneficial. Multiple terms such as biodiversity credit, nature credit, stewardship credit, and impact credit are currently used with overlapping but different meanings. A clear and consistent definition of nature credit within the EU roadmap, including its scope and relationship to related concepts, would support alignment across stakeholders.
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Volvo Cars demands ZEV incentives to boost corporate fleet uptake

8 Sept 2025
Topic — This consultation aims to accelerate zero-emission vehicle uptake within European corporate fleets.
Message — Volvo argues that legislative targets alone will not be sufficient. They urge the Commission to implement incentive packages for both new and second-hand electric vehicles.12
Why — Stronger used car markets would improve vehicle residual values for Volvo's fleet customers.3
Impact — Private consumers in most European markets face high prices for used electric cars.4
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Meeting with Terry Reintke (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Sept 2025 · Automotive Industry, Green Transformation

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Jul 2025 · Climate policy

Meeting with Anna Panagopoulou (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas), Simone Ritzek-Seidl (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas) and

2 Jul 2025 · Hydrogen Road Mobility

Meeting with Matthieu Moulonguet (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra) and E-MOBILITY EUROPE

30 Jun 2025 · Follow-up to the Automotive Action Plan

Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Jun 2025 · Car manufacturing in Europe and the future of electric mobility

Meeting with Edoardo Turano (Head of Unit Climate Action)

25 Jun 2025 · Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European automotive industry

Meeting with Adam Romanowski (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič), Bernd Biervert (Cabinet of Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič)

16 Jun 2025 · EU-US relations

Response to Apply AI Strategy

4 Jun 2025

Volvo Cars has been a leader in automotive safety for decades, caring about the world we live in and the people around us. It was back in 1927 when Gustaf Larson, one of our founders, stated: Cars are driven by people. The guiding principle behind everything we make at Volvo, therefore, is and must remain, safety. We are using this knowledge to help pivot the automotive industry towards the next steps of technology development. We believe that the AI Continent Action Plan corresponds well with our previous analyses of needed aspects to cover and is insightful and coherent. Volvo Cars supports the aim of the plan to accelerate integration of AI in strategic industrial sectors, like automotive, and unlock innovation. We therefore welcome the approach of the forthcoming Apply AI strategy to apply sector-specific solutions. The challenge is not only developing AI models but integrating them into safety-critical production environments and scaling their use across manufacturing lines. EU policy should support real-world adoption through funding pilots, removing data-sharing obstacles, and creating targeted incentives for high-impact use cases. In our view, the following factors are essential for ramping up development and integration of AI algorithms in the automotive sector and to unlock innovation: 1. Focus efforts on a group of strategically prioritized domains; 2. Ensure better data sharing and data processing infrastructure; 3. Balance foundation research with increasing need for funding for innovation; 4. Ensure regulatory certainty; We believe the EU Commission should consider integrating the following deliverables and milestones for the automotive sector into its Apply AI strategy: Mapping exercise to identify prioritized domains based on opportunities in productivity, sustainability, and novel AI-driven products and services (via the European Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Alliance); Based on the selected prioritized domains, identify strategic capability areas (e.g. safety critical AI, computational efficient AI, foundation models handling automotive sensors, and physical AI) (via the European Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Alliance); Assess the need for a Data Lab or automotive specific data space. Starting with the European Data Union Strategy, do an assessment of overlapping sector-specific rules for data sharing in the automotive sector; Tracking funding: the Commission should better track and identify funding that is dedicated to foundation research vs innovation; Re-evaluate scope of high-risk AI in the Digital Omnibus and set up sector-specific consultation forums regarding the implementation of the AI Act;
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Volvo Cars Urges More Lead Time for Euro 7 Rules

13 May 2025
Topic — New technical rules for monitoring vehicle emissions and battery durability under Euro 7.
Message — Volvo requests sufficient lead time after all technical rules are finalized. They want clearer requirements to ensure monitoring systems are interpreted consistently.12
Why — Legal certainty would help manufacturers properly validate new vehicle technologies.34
Impact — National authorities lose the ability to enforce rules due to vague requirements.5
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Response to Emissions type-approval methods, tests, requirements and methodologies for M1 and N1 motor vehicle categories

13 May 2025

Volvo Cars welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed Euro 7 Implementing Acts presented on 16 April 2025, which as published will have a major impact on the automotive sector. While we support the Commission initiatives overarching aim, i.e. to accelerate the shift to sustainable mobility, a goal we fully embrace with our own commitment to become a pure electric company, we believe that the proposal as presented does not provide the necessary clarity in terms of technical requirements to ensure that manufacturers, type approval and market surveillance authorities all interpret the requirements in the same way. We believe that Euro 7 can be an important contribution and necessary step during the transition from conventional engines to zero tailpipe emission vehicles as required by the Regulation on CO2 standards for passenger cars, that we strongly support. However, the implementation date agreed in the regulation on Euro 7 is particularly worrisome regarding the schedule for the Implementing Acts setting the technical requirements. It barely leaves any lead-time to manufacturers to adapt their vehicles and goes against any better regulation principles. And yet lead-time would be direly needed in view of the requirements and number of secondary acts that will have to be drafted and adopted before manufacturers can start the necessary development and validation processes. There can be no legal certainty until the secondary legislation is known. OBM is a completely new concept which requires a thorough description in secondary legislation as well as coherent requirements among the Implementing Acts. We acknowledge all the work done by the Commission and other parties. In addition to our participation in the different Implementing Act drafting meetings, we wish to contribute to the swift development of the necessary secondary legislation by providing the following summary of proposed amendments that we consider necessary for an unambiguous description of the technical requirements. These requirements had only been partially shared until this public consultation. As they stand today, they would not guarantee a reliable type approval process and common interpretation among the authorities of the different contracting parties. In conclusion, Volvo Cars is fully committed to sustainable mobility, focusing its resources and energy to become a fully electric company. Euro 7 should provide OEMs enough lead time once all secondary acts are in place to enable them to comply. The attached document details our concerns and proposals to address them.
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Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

8 May 2025 · Svenska intressen för fordonsindustrin

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Apr 2025 · Climate policy

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

23 Apr 2025 · technical aspects of the targeted amendment to the CO2 Regulation

Meeting with Edoardo Turano (Head of Unit Climate Action)

1 Apr 2025 · Industrial Action Plan for the European automotive sector and Euro 7

Meeting with Heléne Fritzon (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Mar 2025 · Möte om elektrifiering av transportindustrin

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

21 Mar 2025 · Implications of the automotive action plan and the upcoming proposal to amend the 2025 CO2 standards regulation, focusing on potential impacts.

Meeting with Alice Teodorescu Måwe (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Mar 2025 · Automotive sector

Meeting with Jessica Polfjärd (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Mar 2025 · Car policy

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and E-MOBILITY EUROPE and Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V.

11 Feb 2025 · Transformation of the automotive sector

Meeting with Jörgen Warborn (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

3 Feb 2025 · Digital Infrastructure

Meeting with Kosma Złotowski (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Feb 2025 · Impact of EU AI Act and the Green Deal on the Auto industry

Meeting with Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Commissioner)

23 Jan 2025 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Jan 2025 · Fordonsindustrins framtid

Meeting with Wopke Hoekstra (Commissioner) and

22 Jan 2025 · Exchange of views on the decarbonisation of the automotive sector

Meeting with Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President) and

22 Jan 2025 · EU tech agenda

Meeting with Emma Wiesner (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Jan 2025 · CO2 koldioxidnormer för bilar

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

14 Jan 2025 · Greening corporate fleets

Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Nov 2024 · Situationen i fordonsindustrin

Meeting with Johan Danielsson (Member of the European Parliament)

29 Nov 2024 · Situationen i fordonsindustrin

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Commissioner) and Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles and

20 Nov 2024 · High Level European Car Summit, organised by EPP and ACEA. EVP Dombrovskis was invited to give a speech.

Meeting with Adnan Dibrani (Member of the European Parliament) and Google and

20 Nov 2024 · Digitalisering och konkurrenskraft

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament) and Stellantis

18 Nov 2024 · Clean Industrial Deal

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)

23 Oct 2024 · BEVs.

Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Oct 2024 · Situationen i fordonsindustrin

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)

3 Oct 2024 · Electric vehicles.

Meeting with Lucie Rousselle (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)

3 Oct 2024 · Presentation of Volvo’s concerns regarding the EU’s investigation against Chinese electric cars.

Meeting with Johan Danielsson (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Oct 2024 · Europas fordonsindustri och EU:s prioriteringar på transportområdet under mandatperioden

Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Sept 2024 · Industripolitik och digitalisering

Meeting with Sabine Weyand (Director-General Trade)

24 Sept 2024 · Anti-subsidy investigation on electric vehicles from China.

Meeting with Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General Climate Action)

24 Sept 2024 · Discussion on next generation mobility

Meeting with Sofie Eriksson (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Sept 2024 · Discussion on Volvo´s climate targets

Meeting with Miriam Lexmann (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Sept 2024 · Challenges for the EU automobile industry & competitiveness

Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Sept 2024 · European industrial policy

Meeting with Luděk Niedermayer (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Jul 2024 · Challenges faced by the European automotive industry

Volvo Cars urges EU to prioritize connectivity for road safety

28 Jun 2024
Topic — A consultation on Europe’s future digital infrastructure and connectivity rollout needs.
Message — Volvo urges re-assessing spectrum allocation to fit various automotive use-cases. They suggest coordinating connectivity rules with existing policies like the ITS Directive.12
Why — State-of-the-art infrastructure enables real-time data processing and more efficient production planning.34
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Meeting with Elzbieta Lukaniuk (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

13 Jun 2024 · Presentation of Volvo Cars policy recommendations for 2024-2029: “Steering EU policy towards a competitive automotive industry and a greener Europe”.

Meeting with Ramona Ianus (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

13 Jun 2024 · Volvo Cars presented their policy recommendations for 2024-2029: Steering EU policy towards a competitive automotive industry and a greener Europe

Meeting with Karin Karlsbro (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Jan 2024 · SEP

Response to Revision of EU legislation on end-of-life vehicles

4 Dec 2023

Overall, Volvo Cars welcomes the Commissions proposal to revise the End-of-life Directive and Directive on the type-approval of motor vehicles regarding their reusability, recyclability and recoverability, published on 13 July 2023. The proposal aims at increasing the sustainability and circularity of motor vehicles from cradle to grave, an objective we fully support. Volvo Cars has the ambition to be a circular business by 2040 and believes that legislation can help in achieving this aim. The proposed Regulation should help all relevant stakeholders to steer their businesses towards more innovative, circular and sustainable practices. We need to recycle more and better avoiding downgrading the quality of the input material if our sector is to become more circular and resilient. Yet the proposal raises a number of questions and concerns, notably regarding plastic recycled content and dismantling and shredding provisions. We also believe that the proposal could do more to promote more sustainable materials and higher quality for recyclates. These concerns and recommendations are detailed in the file attached.
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Meeting with Asa Webber (Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson)

24 Oct 2023 · Information about plans regarding production of electric vehicles in Europe

Meeting with Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)

19 Sept 2023 · State of play of the assessment of an aid measure

Meeting with Ilan De Basso (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Jun 2023 · Möte

Meeting with Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

1 Jun 2023 · Meeting on CO2 standards for heady duty vehicles

Meeting with Ilan De Basso (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Finnish Industries EK and Confederation of Danish Industry

14 Feb 2023 · Seminarie

Meeting with Karen Melchior (Member of the European Parliament) and Confederation of Danish Industry and A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S

14 Feb 2023 · Conference with Nordic Confederations of Industries and NGOs on CSDDD

Meeting with Ilan De Basso (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Feb 2023 · Möte

Volvo Cars warns Euro 7 timeline stalls electric transition

9 Feb 2023
Topic — The EU is proposing stricter Euro 7 emission standards for all combustion-engine vehicles.
Message — Volvo argues the July 2025 deadline lacks sufficient lead-time for manufacturers. They request more time once secondary legislation is ready to protect electrification investments.123
Why — This would prevent wasting capital on combustion technology that is being phased out.4
Impact — Customers may suffer from unreliable monitoring systems if the technology is rushed.5
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Meeting with Jakop G. Dalunde (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Dec 2022 · Transport policy

Meeting with Pilar Del Castillo Vera (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Amazon Europe Core SARL

14 Jun 2022 · Data Act

Meeting with Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg (Member of the European Parliament)

31 May 2022 · AFIR

Meeting with Michael Bloss (Member of the European Parliament)

31 May 2022 · AFIR

Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

31 May 2022 · Volvo position on decarbonising transport

Meeting with Emma Wiesner (Member of the European Parliament)

12 May 2022 · Aktuellt inom klimat- och miljöfrågor

Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

26 Jan 2022 · Shift to zero-emission mobility

Meeting with Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and

25 Jan 2021 · Commission’s priorities for digital and industrial policy in 2021

Meeting with Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner) and

24 Sept 2020 · Pact for Skills Roundtable with the automotive sector.

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

23 Sept 2020 · Roundtable skills for the Automotive sector

Meeting with Ursula von der Leyen (President) and Siemens AG and

12 Jun 2020 · Videoconference with Chairman of Volvo, Chairman of Siemens and Maersk, CEO of Air Liquide (Topic: European Economic Recovery)

Response to European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport

6 Aug 2019

Volvo Cars welcomes the progress made towards an agreement for the next framework programme Horizon Europe. For the key challenges of Connected Automated Mobility (CAM or CCAM) and self-driving vehicles, Volvo Cars calls for a co-programmed partnership (option 1) across industry sectors and value chains: • The co-programmed partnership will enable quick and timely research actions; the institutionalised partnership (based on Article 187 TFEU) inherently will take longer time. Europe cannot afford to lose the global innovation race. We must accelerate R&I programmes, especially when it comes to digitalisation of road transport. With shorter innovation cycles and increasingly fast-acting competition from countries like the United States and China, Europe needs to accelerate both research and the time-to-market. • Increased agility and flexibility of programme and projects. Due to the increased demands on the industry’s constantly evolving business environment, it is crucial to improve the agility and flexibility of R&I programme implementation in order to deliver results in time and with the available resources and funding. The rigid structure of an institutionalised partnership will not fulfil this requirement. • Reduce administrative burdens for the setting up and executing the R&I programme as much as possible. Lower administration efforts are clearly favouring a co-programmed partnership for R&I in Connected Automated Mobility. Digitalisation and automation are both innovation drivers for the automotive industry and decisive factors for the future mobility of citizens in Europe. Volvo Cars is committed to achieve safer, cleaner, smarter and more efficient transport solutions by further emphasising collaborative research in Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM): • CAM technologies will support the Vision Zero targets set for 2050 by decreasing the number of road fatalities and accidents. • CAM contributes to reducing transport emissions and congestion, while ensuring inclusive mobility for persons and goods. • CAM will provide individual mobility to all users; in particular elderly and people with disabilities. • CAM will have a remarkable economic impact ensuring long-term European growth and jobs. • CAM will enable new mobility concepts shifting design & development from a driver-centred to mobility-user-centred approach. Volvo Cars’ ambition for R&I in CAM is to accelerate the implementation of Connected Automated Vehicles significantly; advance the technological competitiveness of the automotive industry; and maintain its position as a significant employer in Europe.
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Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)

4 Jun 2018 · Exchange on view on hottest trade issues

Meeting with Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner) and Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles and

19 Feb 2018 · Cars, CO2 standards

Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)

3 Apr 2017 · current trade issues

Meeting with Silvia Bartolini (Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete)

28 Jan 2016 · Decarbonization

Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska), Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

23 Oct 2015 · Real Driving Emissions

Meeting with Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner) and

17 Sept 2015 · Decarbonisation of transport and car CO2 emissions standards

Meeting with Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)

13 Mar 2015 · TTIP