After years of discussion, the EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) has now finally made the decision to introduce RDE testing procedures for light-duty vehicles mandatory from September 2017. But the legislation still has its weakness, since many open questions remain. The industry calls for a new schedule arrangement in order to ensure sufficient preparation time for the introduction, and the EU Commission has not yet made fully clear how the testing procedures shall be defined in the end. So, how should practitioners prepare under these circumstances? Want to learn more about this topic area? Jan Cortvriend, DG Environment from the European Commission prepared the following presentation to help answer some of these questions: "Emission Reductions Resulting From the Implementation of the Euro Standards" Read more here: http://bit.ly/Presentation_DGEnvironment

2. Environment
2nd International Conference, Real Driving Emissions
17th September 2014, Düsseldorf, Germany
Emission reductions resulting from the
implementation of the Euro standards
Jan Cortvriend
DG Environment, European CommissionV1

3.  Air quality and emissions subject
to international observation and
action
– WHO, UNEP, UNECE, OECD, CLRTAP
and the Göteborg protocol…
 On EU level AQ and global
emissions are regulated by:
- The EU 2005 thematic strategy on air
pollution (2005)
- Emission caps: National Emission
Ceilings Directive (DIR 2001/81/EC)
- Local air quality limits: Air Quality
Directive (DIR 2008/50/EC)
 Major emission reductions were
achieved from 1990 on
 Yet major incompliance still exists
….
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