Traduction de «One-car household » (Anglais → Français) :

- internalising emission costs by pricing emission rights at sufficiently high levels (Emissions will then be automatically taken into account in the billions of economic decisions taken every day around the world by households and businesses. Then households will of their own accord choose energy-saving light bulbs, car manufacturers will produce vehicles with low fuel consumption and property developers will build passive houses. It will then pay to carry out RD in the field.)

1. Points to the macroeconomic importance of the motor vehicle industry, which accounts for 3 % of Europe’s GDP and 7 % of its industrial employment, provides 8 % of the Member States’ total budget revenue, devotes more resources to RD than any other industry, and attracts a sixth of European household spending; notes that Europe’s global prominence is due, in particular, to the fact that it is the world’s largest producer of cars and the second largest producer of lorries, and to the size and degree of consolidation of the internal market, the growing internationalisation of the motor vehicle sector, the reputation of European brands a ...[+++]nd the quality of European services, and the strong export position which European manufacturers have managed to achieve and their substantial presence on markets with high growth potential;

Here the Commission notes that it would draft a Green Paper on indirect taxation, revise the Energy Tax Directive, and encourage the taxation of private cars according to their pollution levels. It also highlights the potential for using tax credits as incentives for both companies and households.

Any family with more than three children, or families with grandparents or other household members, are dependent on bigger cars like people carriers and therefore will be forced to pay the consequences.

For example, zero emissions for traffic and a ten percent reduction for households, industry and energy production itself. EU measures to restrict CO2 emissions by trucks are necessary, as is the promotion of economical cars, such as hybrid and electrical cars, or at last a European energy/CO2 tax imposed by those 12 or 13 countries which want to impose a hefty levy.

These included items as diverse as parts of cars, medical kits, pharmaceuticals, microprocessors, software, textiles, shoes, CDs, toys and a wide range of household products.