Purchasers of manipulated Volkswagen vehicles can take the German car manufacturer to court in the State where they purchased those vehicles, Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona said in a Opinion delivered on Thursday 2 April (Case C-343/19).
The Dieselgate scandal, which erupted in September 2015, revealed that Volkswagen vehicles contained software that masked their actual exhaust emission values during testing, in violation of the Regulation (715/2007) on the type-approval of motor...