CELEX: 51992PC0553
Language: en
Date: 1992-12-15
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 70/220/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                       C0M(92) 553 final - SYN 398
                                       Brussels, 15 December 1992
                      Amended proposal for a
                         COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
             amending Directive 70/220/EEC on the
        approximation of the laws of the Member States
           relating to measures to be taken against
        air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles
     (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3)
                        of the EEC-Treaty)
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                            Explanatory Memorandum
A. On 20 March 1992 the Commission sent to the Council a proposal for a
   directive amending Directive 70/220/EEC on the approximation of the laws
   of the Member States relating to measures to be taken against air
   pollution by emissions from motor vehicles.
   On 29 October 1992, the European Parliament approved the proposal in the
   first reading, subject to 10 amendments.    The Commission accepts 3 of the
   proposed amendments with drafting changes.
   The first of these amendments clarifies the motivation of the present
   directive in referring to the likely increase in road transport in the
   Community.
   The second amendment draws the attention to the importance of research and
   development efforts in anti-pot lut ion technology for the competitiveness
   of the European automobile industry.
   The third amendment underlines the role of the Commission in adapting the
   Communities' emissions standards to the state of the art.
   The Commission has decided not to accept the other amendments, because the
   Commission believes it does not have objective industrial data to show
   that the standards proposed by Parliament can be met whit in the desired
   timescale using technologies which are available or being developed.
B. The Commission therefore proposed to insert three new recitals in the
   legal part of the directive-
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                             Amended proposal for a
                               COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
                     amending Directive 70/220/EEC on the
                approximation of the laws of the Member states
                   relating to measures to be taken against
                air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles
After the sixth recital the following new recitals are added:
   "Whereas it is generally agreed that future transport developments in the
   European Community will be accompanied by an increase in pollution of the
   environment; whereas it must be borne in mind that hitherto all official
   forecasts of increases in density of transport have been overshadowed by
   actual developments; whereas, therefore, stringent exhaust gas standards
   must be laid down for all motor vehicles;
   Whereas special R & D efforts concerning reduction in pollution of the
   atmosphere by motor vehicles may be a significant element in strengthening
   the comptetitiveness of the European automotive industry;
   Whereas the Commission evaluates periodically recent advances in science
   permitting a reduction in the limit values for pollution of the air by
   motor vehicles and, in consultation with its Expert Group on Motor Vehicle
   Emissions (MVEG), proposes measures for suitable further reductions."
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