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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11394

23 September 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
VW scandal reflects practices long suspected in EU

Brussels, 22/09/2015 (Agence Europe) - Environmentalists have long been saying it, and the Volkswagen scandal in the United States has confirmed it: emissions tests for road vehicles conducted in laboratories do not accurately reflect emission levels in real driving conditions, particularly when manufacturers circumvent the procedure to falsify the emissions levels of vehicles that do not meet the required standards.

In order to beat US environmental standards, 11 million diesel-engine cars...

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