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Corporate Europe Observatory says Better Regulation contributed to car emissions scandal

Brussels, 24/02/2017 (Agence Europe)

The Better Regulation, a veritable battle horse of the current European Commission, was intended to give car manufacturers a free hand that would have helped them to abandon fraudulent practices that led to the emissions scandals, explains Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) in a report published on Friday 24 February.

The Better Regulation idea was introduced in 2002 (see EUROPE 8309) to rationalise legislative decisions at European level through regulatory simplification and systematic...