In 2013, the Rana Plaza textile factory collapsed in Dhaka, burying 1000 workers in the debris. The tragedy was the impetus for the National Assembly in France to devise and win the world’s first supply chain law. In an interview with Charlotte Wirth, the socialist Dominique Potier, who played a key role in drafting the […]
The decision is still open in which form heavy commercial vehicles with fuel cells will refuel hydrogen in series production. These vehicles, which are only on the road in small numbers and as prototypes, still operate with gaseous compressed hydrogen, which is refueled at 350 bar (35 megapascals, MPa). In this form, however, only ranges […]
According to Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), VW may not be punished twice because of the diesel scandal. The group had sold 10.7 million diesel vehicles worldwide with test bench detection and the possibility of exhaust gas manipulation. For this, VW paid a fine of €1 billion in proceedings […]
The crop rotation and set-aside obligations under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) should be suspended in 2024 and 2025 because of the Ukraine war – this is what the CDU/CSU members of the Bundestag and the European Parliament, as well as Christian Democrats from Austria and Italy, are demanding from the EU Commission. According to […]
In the case of the Clean Air Directive, strong support is emerging in the European Parliament for the Commission’s proposal to establish the WHO guideline values as binding limit values on a one-to-one basis by 2030. The rapporteur Javi López (S&D) and the shadow rapporteurs from Renew and the Greens are in favor of this. […]
The Commission’s Director General for Transport, Henrik Hololei, who has been under pressure over flights to the Gulf state of Qatar, is vacating his post. Hololei had taken advantage of free flights with Qatar Airways while his department negotiated an air transport agreement with the Gulf state. This came to light after suspicions of corruption […]
Today’s meeting of energy ministers is expected to clear the way for the phasing out of internal combustion engines in 2035. Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry for Economic Affairs, is expected to be instrumental in confirming the trilogue result on CO2 fleet legislation with the vote of the German government. A test […]
Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans and Minister for Transport Volker Wissing apparently agree not to tackle the legislative text for CO2 fleet limits and the combustion engine phase-out in the dispute over e-fuels. This emerges from a letter from the Ministry for Transport to Timmermans’ office obtained by Table.Media.“It is important to respect the historic […]
An auction is planned as the first activity of the Hydrogen Bank in the fall. Producers of green hydrogen who win the auction will receive a guaranteed subsidy per kilogram of green hydrogen for a period of ten years. Funds of €800 million are available for the first auction. This is provided for in the […]
The rapporteur for the Single Market Emergency Instrument (SMEI), Andreas Schwab (CDU), wants to give the authorities fewer intervention powers in the event of a crisis than envisaged by the EU Commission. Instead, he wants to strengthen the self-responsibility of companies. This comes from the explanatory notes to his report, to be published soon. The […]