24/05/2023 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday 24 May, MEPs in the European Parliament's Transport Committee (TRAN) validated the Interinstitutional Agreement reached at the end of March on the ‘AFIR’ regulation on the deployment of alternative fuel infrastructure (see EUROPE 13151/4) by 33 votes to one with seven abstentions. This text sets mandatory minimum national targets for the deployment of such infrastructure and asks EU countries to present their plans on how to achieve them. It includes the installation of electric charging points for cars with a capacity of at least 400 kW at least every 60 km along the main Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) by 2026. The agreement must now be approved by the full Parliament, probably at the July plenary session in Strasbourg. Read the compromise: https://aeur.eu/f/71d (AD)