María Tejero Martin
Brussels, Jan 21 (EFE) .- Brussels has increased the pressure on German car giant Volkswagen (VW) to cooperate and compensate those affected Europeans, while preparing for claim direct supervisory powers and penalties to prevent further fraud.
European Commissioner for Internal Market and Industry, Elzbieta Bienkowska, today moved this message to Matthias Müller, the CEO who took over VW after a scandal over the manipulation of emissions found in the United States, after passing unnoticed in Europe, and that seems to affect other manufacturers.
Mueller went to Brussels amid speculation about his future, after a complex visit to the United States, where he met with rejection of the Californian authorities plan to remedy the trick and demand through the Department of Justice, claiming to VW over 40,000 million.
In the European capital, Bienkowska insisted Müller that VW should cooperate and deliver the data being collected in its internal research on the software installed on about 11 million cars, which allowed him to circumvent the official tests oxide emissions nitrogen.
Similarly, Brussels expects to receive data on the analysis of the distortion of the carbon dioxide (CO2) also detected in some 800,000 vehicles, for which the German automotive asked to her a month later, which expires at the end of January.
The European Commission (EC) also warned Mueller that Volkswagen should reconsider its decision not to extend to European customers announced for compensation Americans.
The Volkswagen scandal has not only damaged the image of one of the emblems of German economic power, but has also exposed the weakness of European control systems, currently held by the countries themselves.
In this situation, “there should be greater and more effective activities related to the approval of approvals (vehicle) by the national authorities and technical services supervision” Bienkowska defends, in a letter to which Efe had access today.
Thus, as anticipated in late November, the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete to Efe, the Commission plans to introduce “soon” proposals in this regard, as confirmed Bienkowska in his letter to German MEP Pieter Liese, dated January 15.
The EU executive wants “investigative powers and the right to suspend, restrict or withdraw the designation of technical services who are doing wrong and impose fines “and a” right “to” impose penalties on manufacturers who fail “.
The idea is also” subject to technical services regular audits as a condition for obtaining and maintaining its designation, and submit to the competent national authorities to evaluations by peers, “explains the curator.
The Commission also wants to ensure the” independence of technical services ” so he asks prohibit “are paid directly by the manufacturers”.
In parallel, the European Parliament set up today a special commission to investigate the scandal emissions Volkswagen, which will work in the case for . A year
The European Parliament is the scene of another key in the battle against emissions: the implementation of a new emission controls releasing cars, more accurate in measuring what car actually pollutes when on the road.
Although a priori the policy change toughen controls on manufacturers, the wide margin agreed by the Commission and the countries has aroused much controversy.
Specifically, the new test would apply from 2017, but initially the cars could exceed 110% set emission limits without an infringement is considered.
The group leads the Greens efforts to achieve the absolute majority needed in full to veto the proposal of the countries and the Commission, so that the ball would fall in this institution.
Meanwhile, socialists and conservatives European People’s Party have managed to delay the vote scheduled for plenary ended today in Strasbourg (northeastern France) until the next meeting in the first week of February. EFE
mtm / CAE / ACM
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