Responsibilities
A clean, just and competitive transition
Teresa Ribera is the Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition. Her task is to ensure that Europe stays on track for its goals set out in the European Green Deal, while driving the decarbonisation and industrialisation of our economy.
She is responsible for:
- jointly coordinating the work on the Clean Industrial Deal, helping to unlock investment, boost clean tech and putting in place conditions for companies to grow and compete
- guiding the work implementing EU law to help reach our 2030 climate targets and to prepare a new architecture beyond 2030
- guiding the work to bring down energy prices, end our dependencies on fossil fuels, invest in clean energy infrastructure and address energy poverty
- steering investment and financing for a just and social transition, through dedicated funds and tax measures
Read more about the Green Deal Industrial Plan.
Competition
Teresa Ribera is also responsible for modernising the EU’s competition policy to support European companies in innovating, competing, and leading worldwide.
She is responsible for:
- developing a new State aid framework to accelerate the roll-out of renewable energy, deploy industrial decarbonisation and ensure sufficient manufacturing capacity of clean tech
- reviewing the Merger Control Guidelines to address strategic sector needs and the changed defence and security environment
- addressing risks of killer acquisitions from foreign companies and other challenges facing SMEs and small midcaps
- strengthening and speeding up enforcement of competition rules and tackling anticompetitive practices
- ensuring the Commission takes rapid and effective enforcement actions under the Digital Markets Act
Read more about strengthening European competitiveness.
Calendar
- London, United Kingdom
- London, United Kingdom
Transparency
Meetings and missions
As part of the Commission's commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their Cabinet members publish information on and minutes of all meetings they hold with interest representatives. Every two months, they also publish an overview of mission expenses.
- Meetings with Executive Vice-President Ribera
- Meetings with Executive Vice-President Ribera's Cabinet
- Missions of Executive Vice-President Ribera
No information is published on meetings taking place in the context of antitrust (including cartels), merger control or state aid procedures. This is in accordance with the relevant Commission decision.
European Parliament hearings
Read Executive Vice-President Ribera's answers to the European Parliament questionnaire.
Declaration of interests
In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Member of the Commission publishes a declaration of interests. The declarations of the Commissioners-designate can be found on the European Parliament’s website, where they were published before the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners.
The declarations of interests of the new Members of the Commission will be updated and published here at the beginning of 2025 in line with Article 3 of the Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission. Machine-readable versions of all declarations will also be made available in line with the requirements of the Code of Conduct. The declarations of interests follow the requirements set out in Article 3 and Annex 1 of the Code of Conduct for Commissioners.
Biography
- 2024-present
European Commission Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition
- 2021
Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge
- 2020-2021
Fourth Vice-President of the Government and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge
- 2019
Member of the Spanish Parliament
- 2018-2020
Minister for Ecological Transition
- 2014-2018
Director of Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations
- 2013-2014
Advisor on energy and climate programme at Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations
- 2008-2011
State Secretary for Climate Change and Biodiversity
- 2004-2008
Director-General of Spanish Climate Change Office