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Commission publishes Q&A on proposed car C02 regulation

20th December 2007

The European Commission has today published a Q&A document on yesterday’s proposed regulation to implement a 130 g/km fleet CO2 emissions limit by 2012. It includes data on the actual average emissions of each of the major manufacturers present in the EU new car market, showing for example that PSA Peugeot Citroën has the smallest reductions to make to meet the 2012 target at 16 g/km, while Porsche has the greatest at 138 g/km – although Porsche will be permitted to pool its emissions with those of VW Group under the proposed new regulation.

Concerning the cost of the measures, the EC says, “Our investigations show that cars will rise in price by a certain amount - but this will be compensated by fuel savings. On average purchase prices may increase by up to 6%.

“It should be underlined that average CO2 emissions from new cars have been reduced by 12% since 1995 but over the same period the price of new cars has increased significantly less than inflation. This shows that CO2 can be reduced in an affordable way. There are already several cars on the market that have low CO2 emissions[4], and no major price differentials have been observed.”

The English-language document can be downloaded from the European Commission website, at:

http://www.europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/597&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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