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R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y 44 R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y FCC Medio Ambiente has been awarded a runner-up prize at the 2019/2020 European Business Awards for the Environment (EBAE Awards) for its project “Pluggable, low-cabin, high-efficiency, self-su - pporting modular electric traction vehicle platform” (VEMTESU) in the Product and/or Service category. Among the 115 entries received from 16 autonomous communities, the jury highlighted the quality of 25 compa - nies, including FCC Medio Ambiente. The company is also among the 12 selected to compete in the European phase of these awards, whose jury will meet soon and whose award ce - remony is scheduled for next fall. This 100% electric industrial chas - sis-platform for urban service vehi - cles, developed jointly by FCC Medio Ambiente and the Irizar Group, won the World Smart City Awards in the Innovative Idea category, within the framework of the Smart City Expo FCCMedio Ambiente selected in the European Business Awards for its 100% electric chassis-platform World Congress 2019, the world’s benchmark event for smart cities. The industrial series production of this Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) chassis, with a drastic reduction of noise, contaminating and CO2 emis - sions and 50% less energy consump - tion than a conventional vehicle, will promote the implementation of affor - dable e-mobility for heavy vehicles in the surroundings of cities, with the resulting environmental benefits. The European Commission has been organising the EBAE awards since 1987 to recognise companies that successfully combine the eco - nomic viability of their business with environmental protection. The Bio - diversity Foundation, of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the De - mographic Challenge, is, since 2013, the entity that coordinates these awards in Spain. More than 40 years Innovation is in the DNA of FCC Medio Ambiente, which has been doing research into electric mobi - lity for over 40 years and develo - ped its first 100% electric collec - tion truck in 1974. It currently has a fleet of over 16,000 vehicles, of which nearly 2,200 are electric, Bi-Power or CNG.