EU Member States meeting in the Technical Committee of Motor Vehicles
on December 20 voted by a large majority on the latest Commission
proposal to curb air pollution with Real Driving Emissions (RDE)
testing, the Commission said in a press release.
"This is very good news. The Commission’s determination to make car
emissions testing increasingly robust is paying off,” Internal Market
and Industry Commissioner
Elżbieta Bieńkowska said.
"Car manufacturers should seize the opportunity to sell and export
environment-friendly and internationally competitive cars. They should
design cars with lower particle emissions and introduce the necessary
filters in petrol cars that are already widely used for diesel. Public
health is at stake. We have no time to lose,” Bieńkowska said.
According to the European Commission, the third package of
implementing measures on real driving emissions tests (RDE Act 3) will
extend on-the-road tests to cover particle number (PN) emissions.
In practice, this means all petrol vehicles with direct injection
systems will need to introduce Gasoline Particle Filters (GPF) to reach
the particle limits under real driving tests, which will apply from
September 2017 for new vehicle types and by September 2018 for all new
vehicles. RDE Act 3 also fine-tunes the testing methods to take into
account that short city trips starting with a cold engine account for
most city pollution, and will make the real-world emission performance
of a car more transparent to its owner, the Commission said.
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