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Teresa Ribera

EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT (2024-2029) | Clean, Just and Competitive Transition

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.

Contacts

supporting her in her daily work

Calendar

Executive Vice-President Ribera travels on an institutional mission to Washington DC
  • Washington DC, United States
Executive Vice-President Ribera meets with Ms Andrea Marván Saltiel, Chairwoman of COFECE, Mexico’s National Competition Authority
  • United States

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.

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 Commissioner publishes a declaration of interests. A signed, authentic version is published at the bottom of this page. A machine-readable version of all declarations is also available, as required by the Code of Conduct.

Biography

  1. 2024-present

    European Commission Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition

  2. 2021

    Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge

  3. 2020-2021

    Fourth Vice-President of the Government and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge

  4. 2019

    Member of the Spanish Parliament

  5. 2018-2020

    Minister for Ecological Transition

  6. 2014-2018

    Director of Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations

  7. 2013-2014

    Advisor on energy and climate programme at Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations

  8. 2008-2011

    State Secretary for Climate Change and Biodiversity

  9. 2004-2008

    Director-General of Spanish Climate Change Office

Documents

  • 1 DECEMBER 2024
President von der Leyen’s mission letter to Teresa Ribera
  • 20 JANUARY 2025
Declaration of interests - Teresa Ribera