Car manufacturers will be able to team up and form pools to spread the impact of tough new emissions laws, it has been reported.
The European Commission is expected to publish legislation next week showing planned targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
The strict laws are in response to pressure to tackle global warming and the plans will be distributed among carmakers.
Reuters said it had see a draft EU document which suggested companies could team up to meet the new goals, apparently in a nod to calls for a kind of emissions trading system among manufacturers.
The plans would require average CO2 emissions from new cars across the European fleet to come in at 120 grams per kilometre by 2012.
‘In order to provide flexibility for manufacturers, manufacturers may agree to form a pool on an open, transparent and non-discriminatory basis for the purposes of meeting their targets under this proposal,’ Reuters quoted the draft as saying.
‘Where manufacturers form a pool, (they) should be deemed to have met their targets under this regulation provided that the average emissions of the pool as a whole do not exceed the target emissions for the pool.’
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