Improving the emissions legislation for Light Duty Vehicles

The EEB, Europe’s largest network of environmental citizens' organisations, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Commission’s proposal on RDE and WLTP regulations. EEB is disappointed that the proposals on RDE and WLTP testing procedures is so far not allowing adequate possibility to conduct in-service conformity tests by independent third parties. The only reference is to technical services and private laboratories, which does...

Ford Motor Company welcomes the opportunity to comment. We congratulate DG-GROWTH on completing the enormous task of consolidating the 3 sets of proposals (WLTP 2nd Act, RDE package 4 and On-Board Fuel Consumption Meters) into the two document of the legal Acts and the Annexes, together comprising more than 400 pages of legislative changes. There are a number of important issues still to be addressed and a comprehensive set of practical...

The Environmental Action Germany (DUH) welcomes this public consultation regarding the draft regulation on the RDE 4th package and WLTP 2nd act. In general, DUH calls on the European Commission (EC) to cut red tape in the current test procedure and market surveillance provisions in order to increase transparency and comprehensibility and not make testing unnecessarily expensive. For example, the criteria for vehicle selection for in-service...