DIESELGATE PROBE DRIVING EUROPEAN TYPE APPROVAL OVERHAUL
October 1st, 2016
The year-long European Parliament investigation into the ‘dieselgate’ emissions fixing scandal, plus the shockwaves from the revelations themselves, are driving a sea-change in Europe’s type approval system. The European Union’s democratic assembly set up a Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS) last December (2015) to probe EU compliance with emissions and type approval laws after it emerged that Volkswagen and probably other carmakers had used illegal defeat devices to cheat tests. While the final ...
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