SK Deputy Minister for Transport and Construction Replies to EMIS
A 000130 04.01.2017 Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector Written questions to Mr. Viktor Stromček - Deputy Minister for Transport and Construction , Slovakia No. Question 1. What level of priority is given to the emission scandal and the on-going type-approval reform by Slovakia as the Member State currently holding the EU rotating presidency? The investigation into the emission scandal is important for the Slovak Republic. This affair is being actively monitored even though the Slovak Republic has not started its own investigation yet. The Ministry of Transport and Construction (hereinafter “the Ministry”), as the type-approval authority, is in contact with the importers of the offending vehicle models, namely VW, ŠKODA, SEAT and AUDI, and is assessing the number of vehicles which have been recalled for corrective servicing. Type-approval reform is envisaged in a draft regulation to cover type-approval of motor vehicles and of their trailers, systems, components and separate technical units for these vehicles, and for market surveillance of these vehicles. The draft regulation introduces no new type-approval processes, but instead new procedures related to independent technical services and market surveillance. Likewise, it introduces new tools and processes to cover cases such as the aforementioned emission scandal. The Slovak Republic supports type-approval reform. However, not all aspects of the new draft regulation proposed by the European Union would bring the desired effect. Rather it would cause an additional administrative burden. We believe that cases such as the emission scandal should be prevented at the earliest stages, as such prior to granting type-approval, for example through a better vehicle testing methodology, and not retrospectively after vehicles, which have failed to meet established requirements, have already either appeared in the market or been sold to customers and registered.
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