Press Release: Environment MEPs vote to curb off-road engine pollution

The European Parliament's environment committee approved on 15 September 2015 draft rules to cut emissions of major air pollutants from non-road mobile machinery (NRMM), ranging from lawn mowers to bulldozers, tractors and inland waterway vessels. NRMM engines account for about 15% of all NOx and 5% of particulate emissions in the EU.

MEPs amended the rules proposed by the European Commission to keep the administrative that they place on small firms to a minimum. They also proposed including provisions to encourage owners to retrofit machines that are already in service with cleaner model engines, particularly in densely-populated urban areas and areas in breach of EU air quality legislation.

The committee's rapporteur for this proposal was given a mandate to start negotiations with the Council of the European Union.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Cutting emissions and cutting red tape: a new regulation for off-road engines http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-cutting-emissions-and-cutting-red-tape-a-new-regulation-for-off-road-engines/

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