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REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL

Monitoring the CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars in the EU: data for the year 2008

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL

Monitoring the CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars in the EU: data for the year 2008

1. INTRODUCTION

Following Article 9 of Decision (EC) 1753/2000[1], the Commission is required to submit to the European Parliament and Council annual reports based on the monitoring data submitted by Member States. The present Report concerns the monitoring data for year 2008.

The monitoring and reporting as defined in the Regulation (EC) 443/2009[2] will replace the one based on Decision (EC) 1753/2000. Article 15 of Regulation (EC) 443/2009 repeals Decision (EC) 1753/2000 with effect from 1 January 2010, with the exception of Articles 4, 9 and 10 until the monitoring report with 2009 data is submitted to the European Parliament.

2. TRENDS IN NEW PASSENGER CARS

2.1. DATA quality and processing

In 2008, 26 Member States submitted data according to Decision (EC) 1753/2000. Only Bulgaria did not submit any data. This is not expected to cause large distortions in average emissions because of the comparatively low number of registrations. Manual re-processing of data was necessary for a number of Member States due to the use of other fuel types than agreed upon, handling of unknown vehicles, application of the correction factor and other data implausibilities. These issues were addressed during the data evaluation procedure and they were successfully solved without significant data losses. Caution should be used when analyzing the time series as not all EU Member States are included for all years. While the highest effort is taken to present consistent series, some breaks in trends due to methodology and monitoring improvements might be occurring.

In comparison to the reports in previous years the aggregated data in this report are referring to all fuels (previously only figures with respect to petrol and diesel were reported) and in contrast to earlier reports, the CO2 emissions figures are not corrected by 0.7%. This correction by 0.7% had been applied in assessing the progress made by the manufacturing associations ACEA, JAMA and KAMA, in order to compensate for a change in the test procedure that took place after their voluntary commitments were made[3]. These commitments have been superseded by Regulation (EC) 443/2009 and thus no monitoring of progress made by the associations towards their commitments is needed anymore. For reasons of continuity with previous reports, data per vehicle manufacturer association are presented in section 2.4.

Data for alternative fuel vehicles are included for the first time in the monitoring report due to their increasing market share and improved data quality. This includes vehicles reported in the following fuel categories: Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Natural Gas (NG), Electric, Hydrogen, Dual Fuel, Petrol-Bioethanol, Petrol-LPG, Petrol-NG as well as vehicles reported in the category Other.

2.2. Average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars

The average specific CO2 emissions in the year 2008 were 153.5 gCO2/km. This is a decrease by 3.3% or 5.2 grams per kilometre from the previous year (158.7 gCO2/km in 2007) which is the largest relative drop in specific emissions since the beginning of the monitoring scheme. While some of this reduction may have been due to the onset of the economic crisis, the data indicate that there has not been any substantial downsizing of the car fleet as the average power stayed the same and mass fell only slightly to its 2006 level. Both petrol and diesel vehicles improved by more than 5 grams per kilometre in comparison to the year 2007. Since the year 2000, petrol vehicles improved by 11% while diesel vehicles only by 6%. On the other hand, alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) improved by 34% since year 2000. In 2008 the share of AFV almost doubled since the previous year and AFV are now accounting for 1.3% of new passenger car registrations.

Table 1: Average CO2 emissions from new passenger cars by fuel

All fuels | 1347 | 1356 | 1372 | 1379 | 1373 |

Petrol | 1237 | 1235 | 1238 | 1235 | 1228 |

Diesel | 1463 | 1479 | 1501 | 1510 | 1508 |

Alter. fuel | 1415 | 1404 | 1392 | 1271 | 1237 |

Table 8: Average mass of new passenger cars by member state

kg | 2000 |2001 |2002 |2003 |2004 |2005 |2006 |2007 |2008 | |Austria |1290 |1314 |1335 |1426 |1432 |1435 |1449 |1445 |1431 | |Belgium |1250 |1288 |1319 |1361 |1375 |1396 |1407 |1423 |1425 | |Cyprus | | | | |1205 |1277 |1316 |1354 |1372 | |Czech Rep. | | | | |1704 |1242 |1247 |1261 |1275 | |Denmark |1253 | |1306 |1325 |1327 |1324 |1328 |1370 |1320 | |Estonia | | | | |1349 |1408 |1433 |1465 |1456 | |Finland |1753 |1752 |1759 |1336 |1355 |1381 |1401 |1437 |1442 | |France |1221 |1254 |1280 |1305 |1327 |1341 |1349 |1375 |1387 | |Germany |1310 |1332 |1352 |1381 |1408 |1412 |1424 |1433 |1425 | |Greece |1186 |1172 |1223 |1262 |1277 |1287 |1304 |1314 |1311 | |Hungary | | | | |1182 |1203 |1237 |1264 |1288 | |Ireland |1133 |1248 |1276 |1265 |1314 |1341 |1372 |1441 |1440 | |Italy |1586 |1604 |1632 |1649 |1259 |1277 |1294 |1287 |1285 | |Latvia | | | | |1452 |1445 |1468 |1502 |1498 | |Lithuania | | | | |1433 |1448 |1483 |1481 |1467 | |Luxembourg |1826 |1834 |1851 |1442 |1471 |1487 |1504 |1498 |1490 | |Malta | | | | | | | | |1317 | |Netherlands |1221 |1260 |1264 |1301 |1314 |1337 |1332 |1350 |1323 | |Poland | | | | |1181 |1242 |1271 |1304 |1260 | |Portugal | | |1229 |1254 |1295 |1329 |1352 |1365 |1352 | |Romania | | | | | | | |1268 |1286 | |Slovakia | | | | | |1174 | | | | |Slovenia | | | | |1246 |1305 |1316 |1340 |1350 | |Spain |1137 |1266 |1725 |1317 |1335 |1374 |1395 |1416 |1400 | |Sweden |1423 |1448 |1454 |1472 |1467 |1470 |1488 |1503 |1488 | |UK | |1347 |1356 |1392 |1387 |1374 |1390 |1394 |1380 | |

2.4. Monitoring data by association

For reasons of continuity with previous reports, data in this section are presented as per vehicle manufacturer association. In year 2008, CO2 emissions from new passenger cars decreased for each association. In comparison to 2007, ACEA decreased its average emissions by 4.7 grams, JAMA by 5.8 grams and KAMA by 10.5 grams.

Table 9: Average CO2 emissions from new passenger cars by association

gCO 2 /km | 2000 |2001 |2002 |2003 |2004 |2005 |2006 |2007 |2008 | |ACEA |170.4 |168.2 |165.6 |163.7 |161.8 |161.1 |160.8 |158.1 |153.3 | |JAMA |180.9 |177.9 |174.9 |173.3 |170.9 |167.4 |162.5 |160.5 |154.8 | |KAMA |185.5 |186.8 |184.7 |180.0 |168.7 |167.8 |165.4 |161.3 |150.8 | |While the average mass of new passenger cars produced by ACEA in 2008 stayed at the same level as in 2007, new passenger cars from JAMA and KAMA decreased in weight by 20 kg and 52 kg respectively.

Table 10: Average mass of new passenger cars by association

kg | 2000 |2001 |2002 |2003 |2004 |2005 |2006 |2007 |2008 | |ACEA |1351 |1369 |1418 |1406 |1355 |1365 |1379 |1386 |1385 | |JAMA |1308 |1379 |1375 |1380 |1310 |1309 |1322 |1335 |1315 | |KAMA |1295 |1366 |1447 |1454 |1298 |1340 |1381 |1371 |1319 | |

The effect of the current financial crisis and economic downturn can be seen in the lower number of new passenger car registrations for each association in the year 2008. When compared to year 2007, we observe a decrease by 8%. This amount of new passenger car registrations corresponds roughly to the amount of registrations observed 4-5 years ago.

Table 11: Registrations of new passenger cars by association (in thousands)

'000 | 2000 |2001 |2002 |2003 |2004 |2005 |2006 |2007 |2008 | |ACEA |10 864 |11 088 |11 602 |11 481 |12 163 |12 024 |12 114 |12 401 |11 509 | |JAMA |1 542 |1 301 |1 502 |1 704 |2 002 |2 058 |2 156 |2 234 |2 001 | |KAMA |415 |322 |325 |427 |630 |737 |714 |757 |665 | |Other[6] |17 |50 |71 |70 |58 |39 |26 |27 |24 | |Total[7] |12 838 |12 761 |13 500 |13 682 |14 853 |14 858 |15 010 |15 419 |14 199 | |

[1] Decision (EC) 1753/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a scheme to monitor the average specific emissions of CO2 from new passenger cars, OJ L 202, 10.8.2000.

[2] Regulation (EC) 443/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 setting emission performance standards for new passenger cars, OJ L 140, 5.6.2009

[3] More information related to the 0.7% correction can be found in COM(2002) 693 final and COM(2004) 78 final.

[4] EU15 includes Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and UK. EU10 includes Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and the Slovak Republic. EU25 includes EU15 and EU10. EU27 includes EU25, Romania and Bulgaria. However due to missing data, Bulgaria is currently not included in EU27 for all years, Romania not included for year 2005 and 2006.

[5] excluded due to implausible figures reported by member states

[6] includes non-identified new passenger cars (vehicles for which members states did not report correctly the required information)

[7] total registration of new passenger cars as covered by reporting EU member states