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10 FROM THE TOP » ANTONIO MEGALE, ANFAVEA August 2018 | AutoData country, that generates wealth, it needs to be helped. The automotive sector is pulling the industrial recovery, it genera- tes good jobs, the average salary of an automotive sector worker in the highest in industry. Take Goiana as example: the workers’ life level has increased a lot around there, before that the offer was only to cut sugarcane and with the arrival of a vehicles’ factory the staffwas even trained outside Brazil, they have a better life level… it can’t be said that the automotive industry is not important and relevant to Brazil. In practice, isn’t the program more to Rota 2022 than 2030? There are some legal limitations. It is not possible, for example, to extend benefits for more than five years. But yes, it is a fifteen-year program and this is on the text, it was excluded but it will return to paper, there is an amendment in this sense, to make this clear. The- re are three periods of five years with revision of targets for the next cycle at the end of the previous one. Probably there will be now an indicative for the energy efficiency targets of the second cycle, even if they need to be validated at the end of the first cycle. Members of parliament presented ei- ghty amendments to Rota’s provisional also brings this important question of li- ning up all the other programs involving the automotive industry. For example: a new phase of Proconve (Air Pollution Control Program by Motor Vehicles) cannot be left out of Rota. If we have a new energy efficiency phase in 2022, with Rota, the new stage of the emission programmust happen at the same time. It is not ok to invest two years to take care of one thing, and then to take care of another thing in the following year… everything will be aligned. There was a lot of criticism in affirming that the automotive sector is always benefited… In a country like Brazil, the government must have an inductive role. We are not an economy mature enough to let the laws of the market command, it does not work like that, we are very far from this. If there is a sector that develops the “Rota is a very important step, it structures the companies, but it is not enough to solve the competitiveness issue. Definitely not.”