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"en.20000613.17.2-276"2
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"The potential of gas vehicles to emit a lower level of regulated pollutants than petrol diesel vehicles is well known. However, gas vehicles emit high levels of methane. Emissions of methane cannot be ignored in the context of the EU's climate change policy. Because of their methane emissions, gas fuelled passenger cars or light commercial vehicles seem today to have difficulty achieving 2006 emission limits for total hydrocarbons – that is methane plus non-methane hydrocarbons. Further technical developments in catalytic reduction of methane may be possible but the efficiency and cost of such catalysts are not fully known.
Derogations are not provided for in the European system for type approval. So in this respect the Commission would agree that further technical evaluation should be carried out to determine if an amendment to the 2006 total hydrocarbons limit is necessary, to split it into methane and non-methane components for gas vehicles. The Commission is presently studying the possible enhanced environmentally-friendly vehicle requirement for light duty vehicles to address traditional pollutants and perhaps also global warming potential. Like heavy duty vehicles the EEV concept aims at being both technology- and fuel-neutral to encourage best available technology wherever possible."@en1
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