The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled, on Thursday 14 July, (cases C-128/20, C-134/20 and C-145/20) that the software updated by Volkswagen on its diesel vehicles to bring them into line with EU legislation also constitutes a defeat device prohibited by EU law.
Buyers of vehicles from the German manufacturer Volkswagen had applied to the Austrian courts to have their sales contracts concluded between 2011 and 2013 annulled.
The reason: the vehicles were equipped with...