Over the course of three sessions extending beyond 10 hours on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 October, representatives of national technical services and type approval authorities appeared one after the other before MEPs on the European Parliament’s committee of inquiry (EMIS) into the Volkswagen scandal without being able to sway them. Quite the opposite.
Called to appear were the German authorities, including the Kraftfahrt Bundesamt (KBA), the German federal motor transport authority, and the...