Cars: EU, revision of 2026 emissions target brought forward to second half 2025

Brussels, 5 Mar (LaPresse) – ‘I want to announce today that, as we have no time to lose, the review of the legislation on CO2 emission standards will take place in the third and fourth quarter of 2025 instead of 2026’. This was stated by EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas at the press conference presenting the car plan. ‘Emission standards in Europe for new cars and vans provide long-term certainty for investors, so they remain, but we also have to be pragmatic, so instead of annual compliance, companies will exceptionally have three years, 2025, 2026 and 2027 combined to comply with the targets,’ he explained. So, for example, if a company underperforms in 2025, it has two more years to compensate, which it must do by exceeding expectations. Similarly, if a company exceeds expectations in 2025, it is under less pressure in 2026 and 2027'.