Energy, Environment & Transport

Parliament Legal Committee rattles Commission’s emissions proposal

MEPs in the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) voted yesterday evening (1 February) to support an opinion that could deal a blow to the European Commission’s proposed real driving emissions (RDE) tests for diesel cars.

EU Internal Market Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska

Elzbieta Bienkowska [European Commission]

Catherine Stupp Euractiv 02-02-2016 16:31 3 min. read Content type: Euractiv is part of the Trust Project
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Background

US regulators found that Volkswagen designed software for close to half a million diesel cars that gave false emissions data during the laboratory tests. Experts consider that tests on the road are more difficult to be cheated.

In Europe, while the European Commission and the national authorities are preparing more strict emissions limits, a number of inquiries have already been opened in France.

But the executive seems reluctant to open any kind of inquiry. El?bieta Bie?kowska, the Internal Market Commissioner, has upset MEPs by saying that the executive intends not to act until the member states have conducted their own national investigations.

The presidents of the European Parliament´s Environment, Transport, Internal Market and Industry committees have decided to investigate how Volkswagen cars could have cheated the testing system without the fraud being picked up at any stage by the European Commission.

Timeline

  • 3 February: Parliament votes on Commission's proposal on RDE testing

Further Reading

Updated: 29-09-2024

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