Approved environmental associations must be able to challenge in court an EC type-approval of vehicles equipped with “defeat devices” that may be prohibited, said Advocate General Athanasios Rantos in his opinion to the Court of Justice of the European Union on Thursday (Case C-873/19).
The German environmental association Deutsche Umwelthilfe is challenging the decision of the German Federal Motor Vehicle Authority to allow Volkswagen to equip Euro 5 diesel vehicles with built-in...