EU Parliament Calls for Better Emission Tests

January 19th, 2008

R744.Com, which bills itself, “your marketplace for CO2 technology news and policy,” reports that a European Parliament report calls for emissions tests to more accurately reflect real-life driving situations. The article notes:

The European Commission should start to revise emissions testing procedures to better reflect real-life driving conditions, according to Members of the European Parliament (MEP) meeting in Strasbourg on 15 January. This would also include the air conditioning. In the non-binding report “CARS 21: A Competitive Automotive Regulatory Framework”, German Liberal Jorgo Chatzimarkakis urges the Commission to increase Member States’ funding for research and development in the automotive sector to achieve the required CO2 emissions reduction through vehicle technology only. The Parliament suggests to dedicate one of the first knowledge and innovation communities of the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to emission-reducing technologies.

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