Briefing Paper: The EU's response to the "dieselgate" scandal

Author: Samo Jereb

Price FREE Publisher European Court of Auditors Publication date 07 February 2019 ISBN Briefing Paper February 2019

Publication synopsis The question of discrepancies between laboratory figures and vehicle emissions on the road was brought into sharp focus with the discovery of the manipulation of vehicle emissions systems by the Volkswagen group, the so-called "dieselgate" scandal, which came to light in September 2015. This briefing paper sets out the actions taken, at the level of the European Union and Member States, and describes changes made to the system for measuring vehicle emissions after September 2015. The paper does not seek to assess whether the actions taken and proposed have solved the problem.

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