The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has asked the European Commission to activate an emergency regulation to delay by two years the application of these tighter rules on CO2 emissions from light vehicles, according to Bloomberg on Friday 13 September (see EUROPE 13121/13).
In a press release, ACEA points out that the market share of battery-electric cars is stagnating, which “sends an extremely worrying signal for industry and policy makers. The EU automotive industry has invested billions in electrification to put vehicles on the market, but the other necessary ingredients for this transition are not in place and the competitiveness of the EU is eroding”, ACEA stressed.
ACEA has sent a letter to the Commission requesting recourse to Article 122.1 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which stipulates that “the Council, on a proposal from the Commission, may decide, in a spirit of solidarity between Member States, upon the measures appropriate to the economic situation [...]”.
Starting in 2025, the average authorised threshold per vehicle will fall by 15%, to a maximum of 90 to 95 grams of CO2 per kilometre. (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)