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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11611
SECTORAL POLICIES / Industry

Volkswagen scandal - Verheugen sets out line of defence

Former industry commissioner from 2004 to 2010 Günter Verheugen states in his written response at the end of last week to the European Parliament committee of inquiry on the Volkswagen scandal, the EMIS committee, that he did not have enough information to allow him to take strong action against cheat devices.

“…the truth is that at that time a very limited and insufficient amount of data was available to substantiate any quantitative assessment of the gap between NOx (Ed: nitrogen...