Emissions reduction, th EU Council officially approves the new roadmap for cars and vans
The EU Council adopted a targeted amendment to the regulation on CO2 standards for new passenger cars and vans, which aims to grant car manufacturers the flexibility required to meet their emissions targets for 2025. This is the last step in the decision-making procedure.
It was an inevitable formal step to make the changes proposed by the Commission and recently confirmed by the EU Parliament official. We’re talking about the new European emissions reduction roadmap for cars and vans towards the final target of 2035. Now, the EU Council said yes, adopting a targeted amendment to the regulation on CO2 standards for new passenger cars and vans, which aims to grant car manufacturers the flexibility required to meet their emissions targets for 2025. This is the last step in the decision-making procedure.
The EU Council approves the new plan for cars and vans
As stated by the Council itself in an official note, the amended regulation provides that compliance with car manufacturers’ specific emissions targets as regards the three years 2025, 2026 and 2027 will be assessed based on an average of the performance of each manufacturer over these three years, instead of annually.
Now, the regulation will enter into force on the 20thday following its publication in the Official Journal. The targeted amendment of the regulation on CO2 standards is one of the initiatives announced in the Industrial Action Plan for the European automotive sector, which was presented on 5 March 2025. In that context, the Commission underlined the urgency of adopting the proposal to provide car manufacturers with certainty as regards the 2025 target.
