Vehicle component manufacturers support Euro 7 to reduce pollution

This content was published on Jun 05, 2023 – 18:43
June 05, 2023 – 18:43

Brussels, June 5 (EFE). – The European Automobile Suppliers Association (CLEPA) today expressed support for Euro 7 regulations for vehicles to “comply with future air quality standards” and considered that it could be approved in this legislative body and enforced from 2026, one year after the initial proposal.

“The European supply industry supports Euro 7 as an important tool to meet future air quality standards in Europe and, at the same time, ensure high-quality technological standards in the EU. Euro 7 is possible and affordable if it is compatible with certain safeguards,” CLEPA Secretary General Benjamin Krieger said in a statement. .

The rule, proposed last March by the European Commission and pending negotiations with member states and parliament, aims to introduce stricter standards for carbon dioxide and particulate matter between 2025 and 2035, the date when cars can no longer be sold in the EU. New cars emit carbon dioxide.

In parallel, Euro 7 will also introduce standards on pollutants from brakes and wheels, an extreme that will be tightened in future revisions of the regulations once cars that do not generate CO2 are sold after 2035.

A group of eight countries (Italy, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia) oppose the Commission’s proposal, which the auto industry also dislikes because it sees it as requiring investment and bureaucratic obstacles to regulation. which will end in 2035.

However, component manufacturers are more optimistic and CLEPA “welcomes this initiative and recognizes that the proposal (…) takes an important step towards greater ambition, offering the possibility to further reduce the environmental impact of the new vehicles on air quality.

However, this link specifies that “specific considerations regarding time, technical and economic feasibility must be addressed to ensure effective implementation of the new rules”.

“The main factors influencing the overall ambition of the new regulations are the technical standards set for vehicle tests, which must ensure that the tests are carried out under realistic driving conditions,” notes CLEPA.

He stressed that it was “essential” to approve the rule in current European legislation.

“Most of the discussions are already underway, but timely adoption is critical to provide predictability to the industry and allow early introduction of the new requirements, which could be as early as mid-2026 for passenger cars,” Krieger said. EFE

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