The Council today adopted a targeted amendment to the regulation on CO2 standards for new cars and vans, which aims to give car manufacturers the flexibility they need to meet their emissions targets by 2025. This is the final step in the decision-making process.

The amended regulation provides that compliance with car manufacturers' specific emissions targets for the three years 2025, 2026 and 2027 will be assessed on the basis of the average of each manufacturer's performance over these three years, rather than annually. (More on consilium.europa.eu)