The European Commission has announced an agreement still to be approved, underlining that this is an important step towards modernizing the transport sector, which is essential for the EU to become climate-neutral by 2050.
The original proposal of the Brussels body was 30% for both categories. In the interinstitutional negotiations, the European Parliament tried to reach 40%, while the council of Member State governments made 35% of passenger cars, 30% of vans.
According to the compromise, a reduction of 15% should be achieved as an intermediate target by 2025.
Target targets will be the average cost of vehicles manufactured by different companies, so they will still have higher emission models, but will have to be counterbalanced by zero or low emissions.
The values accepted are significantly higher than those that the automotive industry and several Member States such as Germany would have liked. However, many environmental organizations would have gone further.
The aim of the draft is to reduce emissions from road transport in the framework of the commitments that the EU would have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent compared to 1990 levels by the end of the next decade.
The preliminary agreement must be formally confirmed by the EU co-legislators, which is expected to take place in the next few months.
"Our goal is to produce the best, cleanest, most competitive vehicles in Europe, use the most modern infrastructure and reduce air pollution," said Maros Sefcovic, EU Commissioner for Energy Union.
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