NEW EU AMBIENT AIR DIRECTIVE TO FURTHER DEMANDS ON AUTO SECTOR OVER EXHAUST CLEANLINESS
September 1st, 2007
BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London
WITH European Union (EU) member state ministers agreeing ahead of the summer political break to limit the amount of permitted airborne particulates, questions are being asked about how many more technical demands can be made on combustion engines regarding emissions.
Significantly, the EU Council of Ministers - one of the EU's two legislative bodies - agreed a binding limit in ambient air of 25 micrograms per cubic metre (25ug/m3) to come into effect in 2015 in place of a non-binding target for fine particles (PM2.5) which was to ...
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