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11 AutoData | August 2018 measure. Isn’t there any risk that the programwill be completely distorted? First we need to understand which amendments those are. We will talk and discuss with the Congress. Some of the amendments have nothing to do with Rota and we still need to know who will be the rapporteur. And before that, the commission needs to be ins- talled. Only then we are going to work to explain what Rota is. I am sure that Rota is a program to benefit Brazil and explaining what this is about there will not be one single person saying that it is bad for Brazil. It may be said that the program is not aggressive enough, that it could go further. I also agree but we understand that it can be improved so this logic of a greater predictability, of this fundamental long term view for Brazil, starts to happen. In your opinion, will Rota stimulate the production of hybrids and electric vehi- cles in Brazil? Firstly, the companies needed to know which way they should go, which would be the targets and now they know. One of them was to achieve the goals that Brazil assumed in COP 21 in Paris, of reducing in 43% the greenhouse gas gases emission, referent to 2005, until 2030. We told the government that we would do it in the future. In other wor- ds, Rota will point the energy efficiency direction in 2032. Can it change? Yes, Europe is having difficulties to achieve its goals in carbon, for example. Some change of plans may happen but we are pointing the direction, no one in five, six years from now will be able to say ‘oh, but I didn’t know it…’. This is important so the companies can plan, analyze if they will launch hybrid and electric vehicles. For the second cycle, by the way, we are indicating a change on the greenhouse gas measurement system, so we can think on the life cycle, from fuel production to wheels, and not just from fuel tank to wheels. With this, we value our biofuel, something that is very connected to the R&D issue. So does it mean that Rota is so much more directed to ethanol than electric vehicles? “I am sure that Rota is a program to benefit Brazil, and explaining what this is about there will not be a single person saying that it is bad for Brazil.”