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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9360
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment/automobiles

Commission to present revised CO2 emission reduction strategy for cars on Wednesday - necessary compromise

Brussels, 06/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is due to adopt its long-awaited revised strategy for reducing atmospheric pollution by the automobile sector on 7 February. This sector is responsible for more than one fifth of all CO2 emissions in the EU. The adoption of this strategy had been delayed by dissensions between Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas, who is determined to legislate to reduce CO2 emissions from cars more drastically, and his colleague for...

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