EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: PASSENGER CARS AND LIGHT COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AIR POLLUTION EMISSIONS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/NOTIF.95.304. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: EUROPEAN COMMUNITY. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: European Commission. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): 8703: Passenger cars; 8704: Light commercial vehicles. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive 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 (12 pages). 6. Description of content: Aligning the standards for the light commercial and assimilated vehicles to the same level of severity as those established for passenger cars regarding mass of carbon monoxide, combined mass of hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen and mass of particulates. 7. Objective and rationale: Article 4 of Directive 93/59/EEC committed the Commission to submit a proposal for a further reduction of light commercial vehicle emission limit values. These limit values shall be linked with the Car Emission Directive 94/12/EC from March 1994. 8. Relevant documents: Proposed European Parliament and Council Directive 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 (EC Official Journal C390 of 31 December 1994). 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: Adoption: December 1995. Entry into force: March 1996. 10. Final date for comments: 22 December 1995. (325)

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