EU Parliament Calls for New Car-Pollution Tests
- Assembly says real-world emissions should heed limit in 2017
- Parliament takes tougher stance than commission, EU nations
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The European Parliament weighed into the controversy over Volkswagen AG’s deception on car pollution, saying a planned tougher testing regime in Europe should take full effect within two years.
The European Union assembly said autos’ real-world emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides should heed the EU limit by end-2017. That’s a tougher stance than many EU governments and the European Commission, the bloc’s regulatory arm, have taken as Europe prepares to gauge NOx pollution under real driving conditions as of September 2017 in response to evidence that discharges on the road are 400 percent to 500 percent higher than in laboratories.