Traduction de «Working Party on Air Pollution by Motor Vehicles » (Anglais → Français) :

Summary code: Environment and climate change / Tackling climate change / Cleaner transport / Road air transport Environment and climate change / Air pollution / Land motor vehicles / Road vehicles Taxation / Indirect taxation Internal market / Single Market for Goods / Motor vehicles / Interactions between the automobile industry and specific policies / Interaction with ...[+++] taxation policy Transport / Road transport / Carriage of passengers

In November 1994, the CCME, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, established a Task Force on Cleaner Vehicles and Fuels. This task force was created in recognition of the fact that motor vehicles continue to be a major source of Canada's air pollution.

Summary code: Agriculture / Environment / Forest resources and non- Food products Energy / Renewable energy / Biofuels Environment and climate change / Tackling climate change / Clean, efficient energy / Renewable energy Environment and climate change / Air pollution / Land motor vehicles / All motor vehicles Environment and cli ...[+++]mate change / Protection of nature and biodiversity / Management of natural resources / Biofuels Internal market / Single Market for Goods / Motor vehicles / Interactions between the automobile industry and specific policies / Interaction with environmental policy Transport / Transport, energy and the environment / Biofuels and emissions reduction

It is also recalled that further measures - often referred to as "Auto Oil Part II" - will be discussed in a few years' time with the intention of further strengthening the control of air pollution by motor vehicles.

The Governments of the Member States and the Commission of the European Communities were represented as follows: Belgium: Mrs Magda DE GALAN Minister for the Environment Denmark: Mr Svend AUKEN Minister for the Environment Mr Leo BJØRNESKOV State Secretary for the Environment Germany: Mr Klaus TOEPFER Minister for the Environment Mr Clemens STROETMANN State Secretary for the Environment Greece: Mr Achilleas KARAMANLIS Minister for the Environment, Regional Planning and Public Works Mr Georges VOULGARAKIS State Secretary for the Environment Spain: Mr José BORRELL Minister for Public Works and Transport France: Mr Michel BARNIER Minister for the Environment Ireland: Mr Michael SMITH Minister for the Environment Italy: Mr Valdo SPINI Minister ...[+++]for the Environment Luxembourg: Mr Alex BODRY Minister for the Environment Netherlands: Mr J.G.M. ALDERS Minister for Housing, Planning and the Environment Portugal: Mrs Teresa GOUVEIA Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources United Kingdom: Mr John GUMMER Secretary of State for the Environment Mr Timothy YEO Minister of State, Department of the Environment * * * Commission: Mr Yannis PALEOKRASSAS Member EMISSIONS FROM MOTOR VEHICLES - LIGHT COMMERCIAL VEHICLES Following the co-operation procedure with the Parliament, the Council adopted by qualified majority - the Netherlands delegation voting against (1) - the Directive aimed at making the standards for emissions applicable to light commercial vehicles (2) equally stringent to those in force for private vehicles (Directive 70/220/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles).

AIR POLLUTION FROM EMISSIONS FROM MOTOR VEHICLES The Council reached agreement on the substance of its common position concerning the proposal for amending Directive 70/220/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to measures to be taken against air pollution from emissions from motor vehicles.