NON-ROAD MOBILE MACHINERY
July 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLMEP's have backed moves to introduce EU pollution controls for 'non-road mobile machinery,' such as lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, chain saws and forestry equipment, although the European Parliament's environment committee has baulked at proposals to grant concessions to large manufacturers. The European Commission had suggested that these companies could offset higher emission limits for some products against lower ones for others, under an 'averaging and banking' system used in the USA. The committee agreed that this would give large-volume ...
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