EUROPEAN LAWMAKERS COULD CHALLENGE PLANS TO IMPOSE NATIONAL EU TYPE APPROVAL FEES
May 1st, 2016
Plans to establish standardized European Union (EU) type approval fees, paid to national funds not individual test houses, could face a challenge from the European Parliament, the EU’s democratically elected co-legislature, wardsauto has learned. The proposals were made back in January by the EU executive, the European Commission, in a bid to revamp Europe’s type approval system, which were discredited after the ‘dieselgate’ scandal of crooked emissions measurement systems. But British Conservative member of the European Parliament (MEP) Dan Dalton is ...
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