Teresa Ribera

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.

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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.