Date for car CO_2 emissions limits divides MEPs

摘要

MEPs are divided over the date that a 130g/km average fleet CO_2 emissions limits should take effect for cars, 28 May discussions at the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee revealed. This dossier will be one of the main debates at next week's Environment Council (see Top Story). Socialists, Greens and left wingers tended to back the 2012 date that the European Commission proposed, while the centre right and liberals veered towards the 2015 deadline agreed in a Parliamentary resolution last October (see EE & PL: 26 October 2007, p5-6), some suggesting a gradual phase in.