The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled, on Tuesday 8 November (case C-873/19), that environmental organisations are entitled to challenge in court the type-approval of motor vehicles equipped with defeat devices that may not comply with EU law.
Following the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal that broke in 2015 (see EUROPE B11620A13), the German manufacturer Volkswagen had to update a software that was not compliant with European law so that the exhaust gas recirculation would be...