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DRAFT REPORT (COM(2022)0586 – C90375/2022 – 2022/0365(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on type-approval of motor vehicles and engines and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) and repealing Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009

ENVI-PR-746876

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety · Rapporteur: Alexandr Vondra

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The rapporteur's draft report sets out Parliament's position on the proposed Euro 7 regulation on emission type-approval for motor vehicles and engines, repealing Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009. It keeps the single framework for light- and heavy-duty vehicles but amends many definitions, adds references to UN WP29 work on tyre abrasion and brake emissions, and deletes the environmental vehicle passport and the Euro 7+ and Euro 7A designations. It ties application dates to the adoption of implementing and delegated acts: 36 months for new types of M1 and N1 vehicles and 48 months for new types of heavy-duty vehicles. It defers the repeal of the two existing regulations to 1 July 2035 and extends the small-volume-manufacturer derogation to ultra-small volume manufacturers and special purpose vehicles.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes to amend the Commission proposal rather than approve it, linking application dates to the adoption of secondary legislation, restoring Euro VI-based testing for heavy-duty vehicles, deleting the environmental vehicle passport and the Euro 7+ and Euro 7A designations, and aligning tyre and brake rules with UN WP29 work.

Key points

  1. The draft report adopts Parliament's first-reading position on the proposed Euro 7 regulation and asks the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it substantially amends its proposal.
  2. It amends recitals to link tyre type-approval to the General Safety Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 and to require delegated acts on tyre abrasion once the UN WP29 test method is adopted.
  3. It deletes the recital on conformity factors and the recital on the environmental vehicle passport, and requires the Commission to report on tyre abrasion by the end of 2024.
  4. It amends definitions, including those of engine, exhaust emissions, CO2 emissions, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, PN10, NMHC, OBD, OBM, defeat device, tampering, CO2 neutral fuel and battery durability.
  5. It deletes the definitions of tyre abrasion, snow tyre, special use tyre, adaptive control function and the environmental vehicle passport, and adds definitions of vehicle OBD information, state of health, CO2 neutral fuel and the Carbon Correction Factor.
  6. It requires manufacturers to type-approve vehicles, components and separate technical units, including brake emission systems, and to comply with emission limits under the conditions and for the lifetimes set out in the annexes.
  7. It limits extended driving conditions to one at a time, includes regeneration emissions as a weighted average, and bans biased driving in compliance tests.
  8. It requires OBD systems that detect malfunctions, OBM systems that monitor exhaust emissions within a tolerance range, OBFCM devices for N2 and N3 vehicles, and SOCE and SOCR monitors for traction batteries.
  9. It deletes the Euro 7+ and Euro 7A designations, restricts the Euro 7G designation to M1 and N1 vehicles, and adds an option to designate vehicles running on CO2 neutral fuels as Euro 7 NF.
  10. It allows N2 and M2 vehicles with a maximum mass of 5.0 tonnes or less to be type-approved as N1 vehicles and designated Euro 7ext.
  11. It sets application dates of 36 months for new types of M1 and N1 vehicles and 48 months for new types of M2, M3, N2, N3 vehicles and O3, O4 trailers after the entry into force of the relevant implementing and delegated acts.
  12. It defers the repeal of Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009 to 1 July 2035 and extends the small-volume-manufacturer derogation to ultra-small volume manufacturers and special purpose vehicles.

Who is affected

  • Manufacturers of light- and heavy-duty vehicles, engines, components and separate technical units, who must meet type-approval, testing and durability rules.
  • Small and ultra-small volume manufacturers, which may substitute tests with declarations of conformity and are exempt from OBM requirements.
  • National approval authorities, which grant or refuse emission type-approvals and check conformity of production and in-service conformity.
  • Tyre and brake manufacturers, for which abrasion and particle emission limits and test methods are to be set by delegated acts.

Figures and deadlines

  • Additional direct costs of €2,000 per passenger car/light-duty vehicle to €12,000 per heavy-duty vehicle, cited as industry estimates.
  • Extra cost of €17,500 over the lifetime of a heavy-duty vehicle with around 1 million kilometres and fuel consumption of 25 litres per 100 kilometres at €2 per litre.
  • Fuel cost increase of approximately €700 per passenger car and light commercial vehicle under Euro 7.
  • Conformity factor of 1.5 in Euro VI for in-service conformity testing with portable emission measurement systems.
  • Application for new types of light-duty vehicles 36 months after adoption of the corresponding implementing and delegated acts; 48 months for heavy-duty vehicles.
  • National authorities refuse type-approval for new types of M1 and N1 vehicles 36 months after entry into force of the relevant acts; 48 months for M2, M3, N2, N3 vehicles and O3, O4 trailers.
  • Registration of new M1 and N1 vehicles prohibited 48 months after entry into force of the relevant acts; 60 months for M2, M3, N2, N3 vehicles and O3, O4 trailers.
  • Repeal of Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009 with effect from 1 July 2035.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.