The Council’s “environment” working group has gone as far as it possibly can in relation to last November’s proposal for a European regulation aimed at a 30% reduction of CO2 emissions from new passenger cars and vans in the EU by 2030, with an intermediary objective of -15% by 2025. This is ahead of the first political debate by European environment ministers in Luxembourg on 25 June (see EUROPE 12035).
The level of ambition of clean vehicle objectives and incentives are subjects...