EU Delays Heavy-Duty Vehicle CO2 Emissions Measure by Up to Two Years

摘要

A European Union measure on carbon dioxide emissions from trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles, originally slated for publication in 2015, will not be proposed until 2016 or 2017, the European Commission confirmed to Bloomberg BNA Sept. 22. The commission, the EU's executive arm, originally said in May 2014 that it would propose legislation that would require heavy-duty vehicle manufacturers to monitor and report fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions data during 2015, as a preliminary step ahead of possible carbon dioxide emission limits for vehicles such as trucks and buses (37 INER 771, 6/4/14). Unlike the U.S., which put in place a greenhouse gas emissions standard for heavy-duty vehicles in 2011, the EU has no harmonized measure for truck carbon dioxide emissions, though it has emissions limits that passenger cars and light vans must meet.