The members of the European Parliament’s environment committee were doubtful, sceptical even, on Thursday 1 February of the future effectiveness of the new standards on CO2 emissions from new cars and vans proposed by the European Commission in November of last year (see EUROPE 11900).
In this, the first exchange of views with European Climate Action Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, they took the view that the draft regulation seeking an average 30% reduction in emissions from new...