Despite the best efforts of the Austrian Presidency of the Council to try to find a compromise, the draft legislation on future standards of CO2 emissions for new cars and vans is expected to go to ministerial level on Tuesday 9 October at the Environment Council in Luxembourg, a week after the vote at the European Parliament scheduled for Wednesday 3 October, a vote that is also expected to be highly charged.
Delegations and MEPs alike are deeply divided over the level of ambition of the...