Light commercial vehicles will in EU have to be cleaner, said the European Parliament. A draft legislation approved by the Plenary with 552 votes in favour, 110 against and 12 abstentions, set up new target for CO2 emissions, which are to be reduced from today 203 g/km limit to 147 g/km by 2020. The new target is for maximum average emissions authorised for the entire fleet of models made by each manufacturer registered in the EU, and it applies for vans of up to 2.610 tonnes unladen and 3.5 tonnes laden. The 147g/km by 2020 target will be imposed to manufacturers producing more than 1.000 vehicles per year. Van makers will therefore have to produce enough cleaner models to outweigh heavier or more polluting vehicles in order to achieve an overall balance of 147 g/km by 2020, on pain of penalties. To achieve their targets, manufacturers are to rely on a system of "super credits" which gives extra weighting to vehicles emitting less than 50 g/km of CO2. This system, which already exists, will not be renewed and will expire in 2018. «We achieved a result after some difficult negotiations», sad MEP Holger Krahmer (Alde), the rapporteur of the dossier. «I'm glad that we haven't yielded to any kind of pressure to change that target». In his opinion, «as the lifespan of light commercial vehicles is longer than that of passenger cars, it is appropriate for us to stick to the target that we set ourselves». Now the text will have to be approved by the Council, but no surprises are expected. The draft legislation approved in Strasbourg has been already informally agreed with EU ministers.
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