On the 15th of November, Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc reitareted EU's commitment to road safety. "Today is the Remembrance Day for all road victim from all over the world. There are too many road casualties. Just recently over 40 people lost their lives in France....
Today Member States meeting in the Technical Committee of Motor Vehicles have voted by a large majority on the second package of implementing measures to introduce real driving emissions tests for air pollutant emissions by diesel cars. The problem right now, as the Commission has pointed...
During the plenary session in Strasbourg from 26 to 29 October 2015, the Members of the European Parliament will organize several votes on emissions issues. In a first vote to take place on the 27 October, they will adopt their position regarding real driving emissions tests....
With regard to recent inquiries by US authorities into so-called defeat devices, applied to vehicles equipped with a Diesel engine, CLEPA, the European Association of Automotive Suppliers, expresses its concern about the potential image damages to our industry. CLEPA members are developing a range of technologies...
Demand for thorough investigation and cautious action During its plenary meeting in Strasburg on 6 October 2015, Members of the European Parliament have asked the European Commission to open an enquiry related to the VW emissions case. Elzbieta Bienkowska, Commissioner for Industry, stated that the European...
Conclusion of an agreement between 12 countriers On 5 October 2015, Ministers of 12 countries from the Pacific region (Australian, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States of America and Vietnam) announced the conclusion of their negotiations, started back in...
Before the EU-Korea summit taking place in Seoul on the 15th of September 2015, Eurostat published several figures about trade between the European Union and South Korea. Over ten years, the value of goods exported from the European Union to South Korea has constantly increased and...
Brussels - The European Parliament has reiterated calls for a pan-European target to cut serious road injuries. In a vote today on a review of European transport policy since 2011, MEPs called for, “the swift adoption of a 2020 target of a 40 % reduction...
European Commission and Parliament officials said on Thursday (3 September) that they were moving towards regulating connected cars, but are still a long way off from sealing new legislation on autonomous vehicles. Major car companies have been running tests on autonomous or driverless cars over the last...
FRANKFURT -- European new-car registrations rose 9.1 percent in July as recession-hit countries such as Portugal and Ireland, along with the major markets of Germany, the UK, France and Italy, performed strongly. Registrations increased to 1.18 million vehicles from 1.08 million a year earlier, according to...