EU won't give date for car emissions legislation - Reuters

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EU won't give date for car emissions legislation
Reuters Monday January 29, 11:34 AM


BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Monday it could not give
a new date for proposing legislation to curb carbon dioxide emissions from cars
after it postponed a decision last week amid fierce disputes between the
environmental and industry lobbies.

"We are not driven by a day or two, or by a week or two, but by the urge to get
this right," Commission spokesman Johannes Laitenberger said when pressed to say
when the delayed proposals would be adopted.

He rejected a warning by Germany's automobile industry that imposing binding
targets would cost jobs, saying the best way to preserve jobs was to embrace and
anticipate change rather than resist it.

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