A4-0126/98

Decision on the common position adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a European Parliament and Council Directive relating to measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles and amending Directive 70/220/EEC with regard to light commercial vehicles (C4-0177/98 - 96/0164B(COD))(Codecision procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

- having regard to the common position of the Council, C4-0177/98 - 96/0164B(COD),

- having regard to its opinion at first reading ((See Minutes of 18.2.1998, Part II, Item 7(c).)) on the amended Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council relating to measures to be taken against pollution by emissions from motor vehicles and amending Council Directives 70/156/EEC and 70/220/EEC (COM(97)0061) ((OJ C 106, 4.4.1997, p. 6.)),

- having regard to Article 189b(2) of the EC Treaty,

- having regard to Rule 72 of its Rules of Procedure,

- having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection (A4-0126/98),

1. Amends the common position as follows;

2. Calls on the Commission to support Parliament's amendments in the opinion it is required to deliver pursuant to Article 189b(2)(d) of the EC Treaty;

3. Calls on the Council to approve all Parliament's amendments, amend its common position accordingly and definitively adopt the act;

4. Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and the Commission.

(Amendment 1)

ARTICLE 1(2)

Article 2(2), final subparagraph (Directive 98/.../EEC)

>Original text>

For the Type I test the limit values set out in rows A and C of the table in Section 5.3.1.4 of Annex I to Directive 70/220/EEC shall be used.

>Text following EP vote>

For the Type I test the limit values

listed in row A of the table in Section 5.3.1.4 of Annex I to Directive 70/220/EEC shall be used.

(Amendment 2)

ARTICLE 1(2)

Article 2(3), final subparagraph (Directive 98/.../EEC)

>Original text>

For the Type I test, the limit values set out in rows A and C of the table in Section 5.3.1.4 of Annex I to Directive 70/220/EEC shall be used.

>Text following EP vote>

For the Type I test the limit values

listed in row A of the table in Section 5.3.1.4 of Annex I to Directive 70/220/EEC shall be used.

(Amendment 3)

ARTICLE 1(2)

Article 2(4a) (new) (Directive 98/.../EEC)

>Original text>

>Text following EP vote>

4a. Subject to the provisions of Article 6, with effect from 1 January 2005 for vehicles in category M as defined in Annex II, Section A, to Directive 70/156/EEC - except vehicles whose maximum mass exceeds 2 500 kg - for vehicles in category N1, class I and, with effect from 1 January 2006, for vehicles in category N1, classes II and III as defined in the table in Section 5.3.1.4 of Annex I to Directive 70/220/EEC, and for vehicles in category M whose maximum mass exceeds 2 500 kg, Member States:

- may no longer grant EC type-approval in accordance with Article 4(1) of Directive 70/156/EEC, and

- shall refuse national type-approval

for a new vehicle type on grounds relating to air pollution by emissions if the said vehicles fail to comply with Directive 70/220/EEC, as amended by this Directive.

For the Type I test, the limit values listed in row B of the table in Section 5.3.1.4 of Annex I to Directive 70/220/EEC shall be used.

(Amendment 4)

ARTICLE 1(2)

Article 2(4b) (new) (Directive 98/.../EEC)

>Original text>

>Text following EP vote>

4b. With effect from 1 January 2006 for vehicles in category M - except vehicles whose maximum mass exceeds 2 500 kg - for vehicles in category N1 class I and, with effect from 1 January 2007, for vehicles in category N1, classes II and III, as defined in the table in Section 5.3.1.4 of Annex I to Directive 70/220/EEC, and for vehicles in category M whose maximum mass exceeds 2 500 kg, Member States shall:

- consider certificates of conformity which accompany new vehicles in accordance with Directive 70/156/EEC as no longer valid for the purposes of Article 7(1) of that Directive, and

- refuse the registration, sale or entry into service of new vehicles which are not accompanied by a certificate of conformity in accordance with Directive 70/156/EEC,

on grounds relating to air pollution by emissions, if the vehicles fail to comply with Directive 70/220/EEC, as amended by this Directive.

For the Type I test, the limit values listed in row B of the table in Section 5.3.1.4 of Annex I to Directive 70/220/EEC shall be used.

(Amendment 5)

ARTICLE 1(5)(b)

Annex I (13)(5.3.1.4) (Directive 98/.../EEC)

>Original text>

Common Position of the Council

- A new table, to read as follows, shall be inserted after the first paragraph:

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>TABLE>

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(1)For compression ignition engines.

(2)Except vehicles the maximum mass of which exceeds 2 500 kg.

(3)And those Category M vehicles which are specified in note 2.

-The first line of the present table relating to vehicles of category M shall be deleted.

>Original text>

Amendment by Parliament

-A new table, to read as follows, shall be inserted after the first paragraph:

>TABLE>

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(1)For diesel engines

(2)Except :-vehicles designed to carry more than six occupants including the driver,

-off-road vehicles,

-vehicles whose maximum mass exceeds 2 500 kg

(3)And those Category M vehicles which are specified in note 2.

(*)Values for 2005 are not indicative but mandatory.