PARIS, BERLIN, ROME, GANG UP ON EUROPEAN COMMISSION OVER VAN EMISSION PLANS
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POLITICAL alliance has been forged by the French, German and Italian governments to push the European Commission into delaying planned reductions of CO2 emissions from light vans - weighing less than 2610 kg. While the trio accepts Commission proposals to cut emissions from new vans by 14% to 175 g/km, they want a planned deadline delayed from July 2013 to 2017. In a joint letter to Brussels, the three governments also asked the Commission to reconsider proposals to set a 135g target for 2020 as being "unrealistic" for vans. This ...
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