CO2 fleet target for passenger cars: Par • Table.Briefings

Almost quietly, Jan Huitema (Renew) presented his draft report on tightening the CO2 limits for passenger cars and vans last week. The Dutch MEP wants to raise the interim targets proposed by the Commission and calls for a reconsideration of the emissions of plug-in hybrids. This is no easy task, because his draft is already attracting criticism from all political camps.

Rapporteurs in the EU Parliament’s committees often have an enormously thankless task. They prepare the ground for an agreement between the Commission and Parliament. In doing so, they have to evaluate, comment on and, if necessary, correct the Commission’s proposals in their own draft report. Subsequently, however, they are often caught in the crossfire of the shadow rapporteurs and their groups, for whom the report usually goes too far or not far enough.

CO2 fleet target for passenger cars: Parliament faces “tough job”

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