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This article was published September 26, 2015 at 11:37.
The last change is the 26 September 2015 at 15:10.
After the scandal of “dieselgate” Community buildings in Brussels all flaunt astonishment and disbelief the scam of diesel engines with emission data rigged manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen. But, according to a reconstruction of the financial times, the institutions and the Member States had been warned since 2013 of the danger to the environment represented by software and tools (which is illegal since 2007) to alter the test results pollutants from diesel engines.
Authorities knew, but no one is turned
Here are the facts reconstructed by the Financial Times. In 2013 the EU Commission warns about the risk of manipulation of the emissions testing by automakers, publishing a report of its Joint Research Centre, which highlighted the problems posed by the defeat device, the device now at the center of the scandal Volkswagen. Ft known as neither the authorities in Brussels, with limited powers, nor those of the nation-states are enabled until the scandal of these days.
The report of the Joint Research Center of the EU
The devices on which the report was pointing are the same as those used by Volkswagen and discovered in the US. Yet they have been ignored by the Twenty-eight, despite warnings contained in the report of the Joint Research Center. The report suggested even then to carry out tests on the gas polluting road and not only in workshops equipped to simulate the pace slower or faster car.
Make unmasked in 2013?
The reference software is able to reduce emissions of pollutants only when the software signaled that the diesel car which was fraudulently installed was on the rolls for testing on the shop floor. Once on the street, making sure that the machine bent and was no longer on the rolls with the steering locked, the program goes off by himself, doing wheelies even 40 times the levels of pollutants. All this without the owners of the cars but not the manufacturers.
The lobby of diesel
According to the business newspaper of the City “the inability of the authorities regulators across the EU to denounce these tricks brings to light the power of lobbies European automotive industry, which has bet heavily on diesel. About 53% of new cars sold in the EU are (today) diesel – reads investigation published today in Ft – compared to about 10% of the early 90s. ” The conservative Daily Telegraph, citing Greenpeace, said in Brussels is on a powerful lobby of diesel only in 2014 spent 18.4 million Euros to support the dissemination of this type of engines.
EU: never tested the software engine, only measured emissions
After the article in the Financial Times, a spokesman for the European Commission said that it is up to states, not Brussels, to check software such as indicted Volkswagen. In essence, the EU denies ever having analyzed the software for the engine management. “The research team of the EU Commission has measured emissions and found that laboratory tests do not capture accurately the amount of harmful gases emitted while driving on the road and has provided vital support to the efforts of the Commission to introduce road testing” the spokesman added. “This difference in emissions testing are known. Identify the potential use of deceptive applications has never been part of these studies, and would not even been possible because the researchers did not have access to the engines, but were measured are the gas emissions, “he said.
“The Commission – continues the spokesperson – then followed scientific research and immediately started to work on the introduction of tests on the road.” And it was done by working with national experts and the national technical committees by May this year, so that the road test can be started from January 2016. “It is important to understand that the Commission shall establish the regulatory framework but is not an organ in charge implementation. Are the authorities of the Member States who should take action on the field. So it is matter for the Commission, “concluded the spokesman.
Dieselgate: in Italy involved about one million vehicles
Meanwhile, we learn that in Italy engines diesel rigged Volkswagen could be about one million. He said the Deputy Minister for Transport, Riccardo Nencini, on the occasion of the meeting of the Centers of car review. “A forecast of maximum – said Nencini – indicates about one million vehicles involved. Are ongoing checks to verify the damage even in Italy. ” The survey, according Nencini, “may close within a few months, by the end of the year. I hope – he added – that Volkswagen resolve this situation quickly. I see that is moving with great speed: he changed the heads in a few hours by the news of the scandal. “
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