EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BACKS DELAY TO CO2 CAP FOR NEW CARS AND VANS
October 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to give car and light-van manufacturers in Europe three more years to cut the average carbon dioxide emissions of new vehicles to proposed compulsory cap of 125g/kilometre. In a vote ahead of formal proposals anticipated from the European Commission in 2008, MEPs said a deadline should be 2015, as opposed to preliminary suggestions from the Commission of 2012. The parliament's spokesman on the subject, Chris Davies, a British Liberal Democrat MEP, said: "These improvements may increase the price of new cars ...
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