EUROPEAN COMMISSION ASSEMBLES EXPERT GROUP TO PUSH AHEAD WITH CONTROVERSIAL CO2 REDUCTION PLANS
June 1st, 2007
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in BrusselsTHE EUROPEAN Commission has set up a powerful internal task force to coordinate work on an impact assessment of its controversial plans to impose CO2 emission reduction vehicle limits across the European Union, wardsauto.com can reveal.Such an ad hoc committee is an unusual arrangement and it is chaired by no less a figure than the Commission's top civil servant - director-general, Catherine Day - who is answerable directly to the Commission president José Manuel Barroso.The initiative shows the importance and emphasis the ...
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