BRUSSELS PLANS LEGAL MOVES TO FORCE GOVERNMENT ACTION OVER DIESELGATE
September 1st, 2016
The European Union’s (EU) executive, the European Commission, will next month file suit against EU member state governments over their failure to act on their response to the ‘dieselgate’ emissions cheating scandal. The EU internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska told the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS) on Monday (September 12): “You will definitely see some infringement procedures next month.” These could tell member states to act more ...
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