Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2017-04-04-Speech-2-024-000"
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"Mr President, Dieselgate has given a real public platform to an issue that so many others have been following now for years. Whilst not a supporter of the setting-up of this committee at the outset, I do acknowledge the benefit of increasing awareness that has arrived, so thank you to all of my colleagues for their work. It is the details of the complex legislation and its proper implementation at Member State level that will be telling in the future. In the aftermath of the diesel emissions scandal the European Commission made new legislative proposals to ensure that car manufacturers comply with EU safety, environmental and production requirements. Maybe they do not go far enough – I am thinking, for example, of conformity factors here – but they are a good start. It is clear that we need to have better and more independent oversight of cars that are in circulation. Those of us working on air quality have known for some time about the problems with real driving emissions. That is a separate issue from fraud but, by its very nature, is purposefully perpetrated. Today I am supporting the call for a new European Vehicle Surveillance Agency in this report and, more importantly, in the legislative type-approval vote that will come later. Manufacturers and regulators knew for some time before the VW story broke about some of the discrepancies between the approval stage and on-road testing. I believe that a new agency is the only way to ensure compliance verification and enforce proper oversight of testing at EU level."@en1
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