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The European Parliament has approved the Community Strategy for reducing CO
emissions from passenger cars and I welcome this very much.
This initiative will enable us to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and at the same time contribute towards achieving the EU’s more general environmental targets and energy security objectives. Nevertheless, I believe that the message that this vote has sent to the Commission and to the international community at large could have been a more ambitious one.
The 120 g/km threshold for CO
was first put forward in 1995 as a feasible target for the automotive industry. Now 12 years later its implementation is still being resisted, even though technological advances have meant that CO
emissions can now be reduced more than was possible a dozen years ago.
In being satisfied with a maximum mandatory limit of 125 g/km of CO
Parliament does not go far enough. For this reason I voted against Amendments 42 and 52 because their objectives, under the pretence of being prudent and realistic, are in fact simply too moderate.
At a time when the consumer is becoming increasingly sensitive to pollution from motor vehicles, any measure aimed at reducing CO
emissions from this source will benefit the car industry, the consumer and, of course, the planet itself."@en1
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