Real Driving Emissions and NOx limits
Euro 5 and 6 Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 of the European Parliament and the Council sets the emission limits for cars for regulated pollutants, in particular nitrogen oxides (NOx, i.e. the combined emissions of NO and NO2) to 80 mg/km. The need to adopt the current proposal results directly from the Judgement of the General Court judgment of 13 December 2018. In the Judgement the Court finds that Regulation (EU) 2016/646 (an implementing act adopted under the Regulatory Procedure with Scrutiny)
de facto modifies the limit of 80mg/km set by Regulation (EU) 715/2007 through the so called "conformity factors" by allowing for a higher level of emissions in real-driving emission tests than when measuring emissions under laboratory conditions. The Court finds that only the legislator itself could have introduced the conformity factors. The Court has therefore annulled the part of Regulation (EU) 2016/646, which established the conformity factors. With this proposal, the Commission aims to re-instate the previously adopted conformity factors.
ENVI adopted the report on 20 July by 55 votes to 14 and 11 abstentions and the mandate was adopted in plenary on 17 Sept by 485 votes to 169 and 42 abstentions. TRAN and IMCO provided opinions to the ENVI. The first informal trilogue took place on 9 Oct
Rapporteur: Esther de LANGE (EPP) Shadows: Miriam DALLI (S&D), Susana Solís Perez (RE), Sylvia LIMMER (ID), Bas EICKHOUT (Greens/EFA), Anna ZALEWSKA (ECR), Katerina KONEČNÁ (GUE/NGL)