Austria
and Ireland have been warned by the European Commission that they could face action
in the European Court of Justice for failure to introduce legislation covering
roadworthiness tests for diesel motor vehicles.
The EU directive concerned is 1999/52/EC, which concerns emissions from diesel
engine vehicles and in particular with "vehicle preconditioning with a
view to avoiding damage to the engine," said the Commission. The legislation
should have been adopted by October last year.
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Under the directive, diesel vehicles must be tested for "the opacity of
the generated exhaust smoke during a transient, free acceleration test where
the engine is accelerated against its own inertia." The legislation allows
vehicles to be tested without preconditioning if the engine is warm and mechanically
sound.
Commission officials said there was no evidence that either Austria or Ireland
was deliberately flouting the directive, which is aimed at cutting toxic emissions
from road vehicles. Because the deadline has been missed, Brussels has asked
the ECJ to order them to comply.
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