Yesterday the European Parliament Environment Committee voted on the proposal to amend Directive 2009/33/EU on the promotion of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles, the so-called Clean Vehicles Directive.
Member States in the Council have adopted their position (‘general approach’) on the regulation for CO2 targets for cars and vans. Environment ministers decided to raise the target for cars for 2030 by 5 percentage points to 35%, raise the threshold of the mechanism to incentivise zero and low emission vehicles by 5 percentage points to 35% whilst better weighting low emission vehicles in the mechanism.
The European Parliament’s ENVI committee voted to reduce the impact of single use plastics on our environment … which could also help to protect our sewers
Brussels 10 October 2018: Wet wipes cause substantial damage to our sewer network. The vote by the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament today on single use plastics will reduce this.