12 Amendments of Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ related to 2016/2908(RSP)
Amendment 11 #
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to change its internal structure in such a way that, under the principle of collective responsibility, the portfolio of one single Commissioner (and Directorate-General) includes at the same time the responsibility for air quality legislation and for policies addressing the sources of pollutant emissions; calls for an increase in the human and technical resources dedicated to vehicles, vehicle systems and emission control technologies in the Commission, and for the Joint Research Centre (JRC) to further improve in-house technical expertise;
Amendment 13 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that the USA has a history of implementing fuel economy standards and only lately has taken action directly on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, whereas the EU has developed an earlier focus on CO2 emissions from vehicles, which has substantially affected the EU automobile market; underlines that the EU and the USA legislators can mutually learn from each other, for the benefit of the climate protection, the consumer as well as the car industry; calls therefore on the Commission to initiate necessary steps for the harmonization of CO2 and NOx emission standards and emission testing procedures between the EU and the USA.
Amendment 14 #
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure that there are adequate human resources and technical exstablish a deepened cooperatise in the JRC, including measures to keep relevant experience with vehicle and emissions technology and vehicle testing in the organisation; notes that the JRC may have additional verification responsibilities for requirements in the context of the proposal for a new market surveillance and type approval regulationon between JRC and the EPA, which will mutually increase technical expertise in these agencies;
Amendment 50 #
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to investigate why it has not assigned the JRC with the task to prove potential use of defeat devices by European car manufacturers when the defeat devices had been found in the US in light-duty vehicles in 1995 and in heavy-duty vehicles in 1998;
Amendment 58 #
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to strictly monitor the enforcement by Member States of the exemptions to the use of defeat devices and to issue interpretative guidelines; considers that the broad definition of the derogations to the ban on defeat devices foreseen in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 (especially the one concerning engine protection) is implicitly counter-productive, because it allows unfair competition among car producers when an outdated and excessively polluting engine technology can be justified by these exceptions; calls on the Commission to launch infringements procedures if it deems them necessary;
Amendment 80 #
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Believes that the Commission should be empowered to judge a dispute based on different interpretations of EU type-approval legislation between two national type-approval authorities;
Amendment 81 #
Paragraph 22
22. Believes that type-approval authoritiMember States should be made responsible for checking the financial relations existing between car manufacturers and technical services in order to prevent conflicts of interest between the two;
Amendment 88 #
Paragraph 23
23. Draws attention to the US type- approval system –, whereby fees collected from manufacturers to cover the cost of certification and compliance programmes are sent to the US Treasury, and the US Congress in turn allocates funds to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement its programmes – as a paradigm that may be useful for improving the independence of the EU system manufacturers are required to provide full details of any auxiliary emissions control devices to the EPA and the EPA has provided manufacturers and evaluators with a range of advisory circulars providing further interpretative detail concerning the derogations to the ban on defeat devices;
Amendment 100 #
Paragraph 26
Amendment 127 #
Paragraph 31
Amendment 138 #
Paragraph 36
Amendment 162 #
Paragraph 38