MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Amendment to Regulation 2019/631 on CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles – P-001219/2025

Source: European Parliament

Priority question for written answer  P-001219/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Filip Turek (PfE), Vilis Krištopans (PfE), Kateřina Konečná (NI), Nikola Bartůšek (PfE), Klara Dostalova (PfE), Milan Mazurek (ESN), Jana Nagyová (PfE), Ondřej Kovařík (PfE), Ondřej Krutílek (ECR), Milan Uhrík (ESN), Isabella Tovaglieri (PfE), Jaroslav Bžoch (PfE), Tomáš Kubín (PfE), Viktória Ferenc (PfE), Roberto Vannacci (PfE), Tomasz Froelich (ESN)

Regulation 2019/631 sets new, stricter EU fleet-wide CO₂ emission standards for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles as of January 2025.

Article 8 of the Regulation imposes substantial fines on manufacturers that exceed the new targets, which can only be achieved through significant production of electric vehicles.

However, EU-wide sales of electric cars lagged far behind expectations in 2024, meaning that manufacturers may fail to reach the 2025 emission targets and potentially face multi-billion euro fines.

The Commission announced that this month, it will present ‘a targeted amendment of the CO₂ emission performance standards for cars and vans’, which ‘if adopted, would allow car manufacturers to compensate an exceedance of the target in one or two years by overachievements in the other year(s)’. The Commission also announced that it will ‘accelerate work on the preparation of the foreseen review of the Regulation’.

Can the Commission therefore answer the following questions:

• 1.Will the Commission’s proposed amendment to Article 8 of Regulation 2019/631 assess manufacturers’ compliance with the targets based on an average of at least three years, and possibly up to five years?
• 2.Will the Commission present its envisaged review of the EU fleet-wide emission targets before the end of 2025?

Supporters[1]

Submitted: 21.3.2025

• [1] This question is supported by Members other than the authors: Sebastian Tynkkynen (ECR), Dominik Tarczyński (ECR), Fernand Kartheiser (ECR), Julien Leonardelli (PfE), Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová (PfE), Tamás Deutsch (PfE), Erik Kaliňák (NI), Ondřej Knotek (PfE)