CO2 INFO
July 1st, 2001
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commission has sent second warning letters to the UK and seven other EU countries for their failure to adopt an EU directive aimed at providing new car buyers with information about fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The countries were first warned in April, following which Britain and Belgium informed Brussels of draft legislation for implementing the directive but no reply was received from France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain or Portugal. Deadline for adopting the texts was January 18, this year.The directive, proposed ...
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