ROADWORTHINESS TESTS IN THE EU BECOME TOUGHER
March 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROADWORTHINESS tests that all vehicles must undertake to drive on European Union (EU) roads just got tougher. The EU Council of Ministers - the 27 country union's senior legislative body - has agreed changes to the relevant legislation - directive 2009/40/EC, which lays down minimum standards for such examinations. Its aim is to make sure dangerous vehicles do not ply the highways of Europe because one or more member state is lax on its vehicle testing.
However, because auto technology is so dynamic, these standards have now been updated to ...
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