European Union This Monday he gave final approval to the new Zero Emission Industry Actwhose goal is to increase production Clean technologies in the European Union to compete with subsidized industries Chinese and American.

The rules aim to ensure European companies gain a foothold in key greening sectors such as batteries, photovoltaic panels or Wind turbinesand sets the goal that by 2030 the EU will cover own production 40% consumption of clean technologies and that in 2040 it will be responsible for 15% of world production these technologies.

For this, plan to speed up obtaining permitschange the rules for conducting government tenders so that proposals more stable they can earn them even if they are not the cheapest, improve access to markets and improve the training of workers for these sectors, among other measures.

After receiving green light from the European Parliament In April, approval this Monday by Member States was the last pending step towards the rules coming into force.

“This law will help Europe lead global cleantech career and ensure that our contribution to the fight against climate change also reduces our dependence and helps us generate economic growth and jobs in Europe,” the Flemish Economy Minister said in a statement. Joe Burnswhose country (Belgium) is the President of the Council of the EU this semester.

The law is the European response to 340 billion euros green grantsapproved by the United States as part of its anti-inflation law for a sector whose value will triple to reach 600 billion euros at the end of the decade; and in which China and Japan also plan to invest 260,000 and 140,000 million euros respectively.

Plan focuses its efforts on a dozen technologies considered strategicamong which are those related to solar and wind energy, battery and storage technologies, heat and geothermal pumps, electrolyzers and fuel cells, sustainable biogas and biomethane, carbon capture and energy networks.

To these eight proposals from the European Commission, Parliament and states were added alternative fuels and technologies related to nuclear fission and fusionalthough countries that do not use this energy will not be required to declare such projects strategic.

The standard also specifies 2030 carbon capture target at least 50 million tons of CO2 per year.

Besides reduce deadlines reward permits for construction or expansion factories zero emission technologies, which will be a maximum of 18 months for large ones (with a capacity of more than 1 gigawatt) and 12 months for those that do not reach this threshold. For strategic projects, partners will set even shorter deadlines.