From 2035 stop the registrations of cars and vans with endothermic petrol or diesel engines, green light only to those powered by e-fuels (synthetic fuels).
The Energy Council has definitively adopted the agreement on CO2 emissions for new cars.
Italy, represented by the Minister for the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, abstained, as did Romania and Bulgaria. Only Poland voted against the agreement reached in October between Parliament and the Council.
Germany voted in favour, but only after the agreement reached with the European Commission on the e-fuels.
"We will work, within the framework of the procedures for approving the legislative acts indicated by the European Commission, to have biofuels also considered among the neutral fuels in terms of CO2", said the Minister of the Environment, Gilberto Pichetto , announcing the vote of abstention. "We consider that the provision in the Commission's declaration of synthetic fuels alone represents too restrictive an interpretation," he highlighted.
«With today's final vote , the EU has taken an important step towards zero-emission mobility . The direction is clear: in 2035 new cars and vans must have zero emissions», wrote the Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans in a tweet: it is, he added, a « major contribution to climate neutrality by 2050 and a fundamental part of the Green Deal ".
(Unioneonline/D)
