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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9361
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment/cars

Commission to introduce legislation to make car manufacturers ensure cars emit less than 130 g/km CO2 by 2012 - Biofuels and other new technology

Brussels, 07/02/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has saved face. Its revised strategy to cut CO2 emissions from private cars, adopted on 7 February by the College of Commissioners, keeps the initial objective of reducing the average CO2 emissions of new cars to 120 g per kilometre or less by 2012 (see Europe 9360). But the obligations on car manufacturers will be relaxed compared with what was agreed in 1995 when the EU initially pledged to the above target, later reconfirmed...

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