19 Amendments of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2016/2908(RSP)
Amendment 8 #
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to report back to the European Parliament on its follow-up within 18 months and regularly thereafter;
Amendment 18 #
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for all, full, non-anonymised JRC test results to be made available to the public through a database; furthermore calls for the JRC VELA lab to report to a supervisory board which includes representatives of the Member States and organisations for environmental and health protection;
Amendment 25 #
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the Commission to review in 2017 the conformity factor for RDE tests of NOx emissions, as provided for by the 2nd RDE package, so as to bring it down to 1 by 2021 at the latest;
Amendment 27 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Takes note of the action for annulment against the 2nd RDE package initiated by several EU cities on the grounds that by introducing new increased thresholds for NOx emissions, the Commission Regulation alters an essential element of a basic act, thereby infringing an essential procedural requirement, as well as the provisions of the Air Quality Directive (2008/50/EC) as regards the limitation of the maximum nitrogen-emission levels for diesel vehicles;
Amendment 32 #
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to review the applicable Union law in order to ascertain whether the placing on the market of other vehicle systems, or of other products, could be dependent on inadequate test procedures, as in the case of vehicle emissions, or where market surveillance efforts are similarly lacking, and to come forward with appropriate legislative proposals to ensure the enforcement of internal market standards;
Amendment 33 #
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to come forward with proposals to introduce environmental inspections at EU level to monitor compliance with environmental product standards, emission limits relating to operating permits, and EU environmental law in general;
Amendment 36 #
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to substantially alter the existing policies of archiving and storing information, and to ensure that notes, inter-services communication, drafts and unofficial exchanges within the Commission, the Member States, the Council and their representatives will be archived by default; deplores the gaps in public records that have been created by a far too narrow scope of documents primed for archival that requires active intervention in order for documents to be archived;
Amendment 37 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for lists of participants and meeting minutes of comitology committees such as TCMV and Commission expert groups such as the Motor Vehicles Working Group or the RDE-LDV group to be made available to the public;
Amendment 44 #
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that although the RDE procedure will minimise the risk of defeat device use, it will not completely prevent recourse to illegal practices; recommends therefore that, in line with the approach of the US authorities, a degree of unpredictability is built into the type- approval and in-service conformity testing in order to prevent any outstanding loopholes from being exploited;
Amendment 47 #
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to analyse whyconduct an internal review to verify the claim that the JRC’s research findings and concerns discussed among the Commission’s services with regard to possible illegal practices by manufacturers never reached the level of the hierarchy; calls on the Commission to report its conclusions to Parliament;
Amendment 52 #
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to require car manufacturers, in the context of the recently introduced obligation for car manufacturers to disclose their base and auxiliary emission strategies, to explain any irrational emissions behaviour of vehicles observed in testing, to disclose both the source code and its documentation used in any emission strategy and to demonstrate the need to apply the exemptions set out in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007; calls on the Member States to share the results of their investigations and the technical test data with the Commission and Parliament;
Amendment 59 #
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; calls on the Commission to launch infringements procedures if it deems them necessaryMember States fail to act upon the findings of the recent investigations and to require manufacturers to remove any temporal modulation of emission control devices, unnecessary thermal modulation, and other defeat strategies which result, inter alia, in higher emissions with hot start in laboratory conditions;
Amendment 68 #
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Insists on the establishment of an European Vehicles Surveillance Agency to organise and carry out, on an adequate scale, tests and inspections of vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units already made available on the market, with a view to verifying that those vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units conform to the type-approvals and to applicable legislation as well as to ensure the correctness of the type-approvals;
Amendment 70 #
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Suggests that in the case of passenger vehicles, random market surveillance tests, including with unspecified test protocols, should be performed on at least 20% of the new models put on the Union market each year as well as on a representative quantity of older models to verify whether the vehicles comply with the Union safety and environmental legislation on the road; believes that in choosing the vehicles to be tested at the Union level, substantiated complaints should be followed up and third-party testing, remote sensing data, reports from periodic technical inspections and other information should be taken into account;
Amendment 72 #
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for a drastic strengthening of market surveillance in the new EU type- approval framework, on the basis of clearly defined rules and a clearer distribution of responsibilities;
Amendment 143 #
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Amendment 149 #
Paragraph 36 c (new)
36c. Calls on the Commission to review the existing rules on consumer protection in order to create consistent standards across the Union and the possibility for class action against fraudulent companies; urges the European Commission to review all relevant EU legislation in order to support the establishment of a common compensation scheme and proper rules to compensate European consumers;
Amendment 166 #
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Calls on the Commission to improve its capabilities to handle document requests from both committees of inquiry as well as journalists and citizens under respective applicable access for document rules in a timely manner and acceptable quality; urges the Commission to release these documents in their native format and refrain from time- consuming and potentially content- altering format changes and format conversions; further instructs the Commission to make sure that information that is stored in a machine- readable format, e.g. a database has to be also be released in a machine-readable format;
Amendment 168 #
Paragraph 41 b (new)
41b. Notes that it is the responsibility of the committee of inquiry to make any determinations whether information within the scope of a request is relevant for the work of the committee; notes that this task should not be pre-empted by the recipient of such a document request; instructs the Commission to properly reflect this responsibility in its guidelines on access to documents requests;