CELEX: 51987PC0706
Language: en
Date: 1988-02-10
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 70/220/EEC ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE LAWS OF MEMBER STATES RELATING TO MEASURES TO BE TAKEN AGAINST AIR POLLUTION BY GASES FROM THE ENGINES OF MOTOR VEHICLES ( EUROPEAN EMISSION STANDARD FOR CARS BELOW 1.4 LITRES )

27. 2. 88                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                No C 56/9
              Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 70/220/EEC on the approximation of the
              laws of Member States relating to measures to be taken against air pollution by gases from the
                                                     engines of motor vehicles
                                    (European emission standard for cars below 1,4 litres)
                                                        COM(87) 706 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 15 February 1988)
                                                           (88/C 56/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             Whereas Directive 8./. . ./EEC has laid down for the
                                                                     vehicles with an engine capacity of less than 1,4 litres
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                transitional limit values which reflected the current
Economic Community, and in particular Article 100A                   technical and economic conditions of European manu-
thereof,                                                             facturers in this section of the market and had stipulated
                                                                     that the European standards to be applied at the latest in
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    1992/93 should be fixed in 1987;
In cooperation with the European Parliament,
                                                                     Whereas the work undertaken by the Commission on
                                                                     that subject has shown that the European Community
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                     has available, or is currently perfecting, technologies
Social Committee,                                                    which allow a further reduction of the limit values
                                                                     concerned;
Whereas it is important to adopt measures with the aim
of progressively establishing the internal market over a
period expiring on 31 December 1992; whereas the                     Whereas the limit values of the present Directive are
internal market shall comprise an area without internal              allowing compliance by industry at a reasonable cost and
frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons,              using different technical means, they also allow to
services and capital is ensured;                                     achieve ultimately and in conjunction with the limit
                                                                     values for the vehicle categories above 1,4 litres an effect
Whereas the first programme of action of the European                on the environment equivalent to that of the emission
Communities on the protection of the environment,                    standards in force in the United States of America,
approved by the Council on 22 November 1973, called                  whereas these limit values are altogether based on the
for account to be taken of the latest scientific advances            present test procedure laid down in Directive
in combating atmospheric pollution caused by gases                   70/220/EEC and need to be reconsidered when this
emitted from motor vehicles and for Directives adopted               procedure will be completed by a test representing
previously to be amended accordingly; whereas the third              driving conditions outside built-up areas.
programme of action provides for additional efforts to be
made to reduce considerably the present level of
emissions of pollutants from motor vehicles (*);
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Whereas Directive 70/220/EEC (') lays down the limit
values for carbon monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbon
emissions from such engines; whereas these limit values                                        Article 1
were first reduced by Directive 74/290/EEC (2) and                   Directive 70/220/EEC, as last amended by Directive
supplemented,       in     accordance       with      Directive      . ./. . .EEC is hereby amended as follows:
77/102/EEC (3), by limit values for permissible emissions
of nitrogen oxides; whereas the limit values for these
three pollutants were successively reduced by Directives
                                                                                               ANNEX I
78/665/EEC (4), 83/351/EEC (5) and 8./.. ./EEC (6);
                                                                     item 5.2.1.1.4 the last line of the table shall read:
(*) If the Resolution concerning the fourth programme of                    'C < 1,400        30         8       —'.
    action on the protection on the environment is adopted
    before the adoption of this Directive.
(*) OJ No L 76, 6. 4. 1970, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 159, 15. 6. 1974, p. 61.                                                           ANNEX I
(3) OJ No L 32, 3. 2. 1977, p. 32.                                   item 7.1.1.1 the last line of the table shall read:
(4) OJ No L 223, 14. 8. 1978, p. 48.
C) OJ No L 197, 20. 7. 1983, p. 1.
C) OJ No L                                                                  'C < 1,400        36        10       —'.
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                         Article 2                              — may refuse national type-approval for a type of
                                                                    motor vehicle,
1.   From 1 April 198 . . . no Member State may, on
grounds relating to air pollution by emissions from an          whose emission levels do not meet the requirements set
engine having a capacity of less than 1 400 cm3:                out in the Annexes to Directive 70/220/EEC, as last
                                                                amended by this Directive.
— refuse to grant EEC type-approval, to issue the
   document referred to in the last indent of Article           3.    From 1 October 1993 in respect of vehicles
    10(1) of Council Directive 70/156/EEC, as last              equipped with an engine having a capacity of less than
   amended by Directive 87/358/EEC ('), or to grant             1 400 cm3; Member States may prohibit the entry into
   national type-approval for a type of motor vehicle,          service of such vehicles whose emission levels do not
                                                                meet the requirements set out in the Annexes to
— prohibit the entry into service of motor vehicles,            Directive 70/220/EEC, as last amended by this
                                                                Directive.
where emissions from this type of motor vehicle or from
such vehicles meet the requirements of Directive
                                                                                        Article 3
70/220/EEC as last amended by this Directive.
                                                                Member States shall bring into force laws, regulations
2.   From 1 October 1992 in respect of types of vehicle         and administrative provisions necessary in order to
equipped with an engine having a capacity of less than          comply with this Directive not later than 1 April 198...
1 400 cm3, Member States:                                       They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
— may no longer issue the document provided for in                                      Article 4
   the last indent of Article 10 (1) of Directive
   70/156/EEC in respect of a type of motor vehicle,            This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
0) OJ L 192 of 11. 7. 1987, p. 51.