The European Commission has presented a bill on new polluting emission limits, the so -called “Euro 7” standards, which will not require too much efforts from industrialists in the sector. = “Caption”> by Virginie Malingre (Brussels, European office)
After prohibiting the sale of heat -engine cars after 2035 as part of the fight against global warming and CO 2 emissions, Europeans wish to spare the players in the sector. Several member states, including France and Germany, but also the Commission watch, arguing that automotive manufacturers must now focus on the implementation of this industrial and social revolution.
Thursday, November 10, the community executive presented a bill on new polluting emission limits – the so -called “Euro 7” standards – which will not ask them for too much efforts and which, some regard, is even less ambitious than what their lobbyist proposed, the Association of European Automobiles (ACEA).
Thus, the text notes very little the requirements in terms of emissions of nitrogen oxides or carbon monoxide for cars. The ACEA considered however that it was possible to lower their limit to 35 milligrams per kilometer, for example, for the first (against 60 for petrol cars and 80 for diesel today), insofar as a A great majority of vehicles already displays such a performance.
The Commission has stopped the cursor at 60 milligrams per kilometer for all light vehicles that will come out of factories from the 1 July 2025, and rare are the member states, apart from the countries- Low and a few others, to have campaigned for a harder standard. “After the” dieselgate “, the manufacturers have made significant efforts and the rise in power of the electric will contribute to a drop in emissions”, explains a senior European official.
“The commission could be More ambitious “
“It is difficult to ask car manufacturers to invest at the same time in electric and thermal,” admits Pascal Canfin, president of the Environment Commission of the European Parliament. But, he continues, “air pollution makes tens of thousands of deaths each year. The commission could be more ambitious”. “The system was lax until now, the manufacturers have long bypassed it. It would not be foolish to tighten the screw at the level of emission constraints,” said Philippe Lamberts, president of the Greens in Parliament in Parliament European.
The Commission defends itself by explaining that it now asks manufacturers to produce cleaner cars on small trip. The community executive also wants these rules to be valid longer: they would be relaxed when the car would have traveled more than 200,000 kilometers or would have more than ten years, against 100,000 kilometers and five years at present. >
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