EU RELEASES NEW LOW EMISSION PLAN – BUT AUTOMAKERS UNHAPPY
July 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a new policy paper (communication) on reducing carbon emissions from transport, but automotive manufacturers have complained it focuses too tightly on road vehicles.
This ‘European Strategy for Low-Emission Mobility’ attempts to explain how the EU should try to hit its carbon emissions reduction targets through focusing on transport.
Within, the Commission said it intended to revise the EU directive on lorry charging to enable EU member states to vary charges to reflect CO2 emissions from heavy good vehicles and ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.