European regulations for new car CO2 emissions enter into force
Fri 05 June 2009
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European regulations on CO2 from new passenger cars has finally entered into law. The details were published in the Official Journal of the EU on 5 June 2009. Their publication in the Official Journal marks the final act of the law-making process. A new car average CO2 emissions target of 130g/km of CO2 is to be phased in from 2012 to 2015.
The legislation follows the Commission's review of the European Climate Change Programme in 2007 undertaken in close consultation with key stakeholders. The conclusion of the review was that the 1998 voluntary agreement between the main car industry groupings (ACEA, JAMA and KAMA) and the Commission had delivered some CO2 reductions but that it had not achieved the target. Under the voluntary agreement, average new car CO2 emissions fell from 186g/km in 1995 to 158g/km in 2007.
The new law will be known as, “Regulation (EC) No 443/2009 of 23 April 2009 setting emission performance standards for new passenger cars as part of the Community’s integrated approach to reduce CO2 emissions from light-duty vehicles”. The Regulation entered into force three days after its publication in the Official Journal, on 8 June 2009.
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