Consultation outcome

Road vehicles: improving air quality and safety

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 2 February 2018
• Last updated: 7 June 2018 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

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Road vehicles, improving air quality and safety government response

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Detail of outcome

As the consultation has agreement we now plan to make and lay a statutory instrument to amend existing regulations. These amending regulations will:

• introduce additional offences and penalties for manufacturers who fit defeat devices to road vehicles, motorcycles and agricultural tractors
• require manufacturers to publish fuel economy figures obtained from the new Worldwide [harmonised] Light vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) laboratory test from 1 January 2019
• update a number of safety and environmental requirements for vehicles approved under National Small Series Type Approval (NSSTA) and Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA)
• introduce strict limits on derogations for light duty vehicles not tested under the new WLTP

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Original consultation

Summary

Regulations for implementing EU emissions and safety rules, including new fuel consumption testing, and supply of defeat device penalties.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 2 February 2018 to 11:45pm on 2 March 2018

Consultation description

The draft regulations include:

• new penalties for supplying a vehicle with a defeat device
• a new laboratory test procedure (WLTP) for measuring fuel consumption
• revised emissions and safety standards for specialist and converted vehicles
• stricter end of series derogations

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Road vehicles: improving air quality and safety

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Published 2 February 2018
Last updated 7 June 2018 + show all updates

1. 7 June 2018

   Government response published.

2. 2 February 2018

   First published.