Spain and six other EU countries refuse to ease emissions standards for cars

Spain and six other member states have called for maintaining the current emission reduction requirements for cars and vans in the European Union and have warned against new flexibilities that could slow down the transition to electric vehicles and weaken investments made by the European car industry.

In a joint document, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden argue that any additional scope for manufacturers to meet CO2 targets should remain “strictly limited”, conditional on concrete industrial and environmental efforts, aimed at “accelerating the decarbonisation of mobility” within the EU, and not jeopardising the investment signal towards electrification.
The seven countries argue that the electrification of transport has become an issue that goes beyond climate policy and links it directly to European energy security, in a context marked by volatile fossil fuel prices and geopolitical instability.

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