Workshop on legislation in relation to cars and vans, renewables and fuel quality
Date: 13-14.04.2016
Place: Tirana, Albania
Organizer: ECRAN Secretariat with EC TAIEX Unit
The 'car labelling Directive' (Directive 1999/94/EC) aims to raise consumer awareness on fuel use
and CO2 emission of new passenger cars. By doing so consumers should be incentivised to purchase
or lease cars which use less fuel and thereby emit less CO2. In turn it should provide an additional
incentive to encourage manufacturers to take steps to reduce the fuel consumption of new cars. The
'car labelling Directive' as demand-side policy is considered an important complementary measure
to help car manufacturers to meet their specific CO2 emission targets as set under Regulation (EC)
443/2009.
The Renewable Energy Directive establishes an overall policy for the production and promotion of
energy from renewable sources in the EU. It requires the EU to fulfil at least 20% of its total energy
needs with renewables by 2020 – to be achieved through the attainment of individual national
targets. All EU countries must also ensure that at least 10% of their transport fuels come from
renewable sources b.
Biofuels and bioliquids are instrumental in helping EU countries meet their 10% renewables target in
transport. The Renewable Energy Directive sets out biofuels sustainability criteria for all biofuels
produced or consumed in the EU to ensure that they are produced in a sustainable and
environmentally friendly manner. Companies can show they comply with the sustainability criteria
through national systems or so-called voluntary schemes recognised by the European Commission.
Member States may impose more stringent standards on fuels marketed on their territory in order
to protect the environment or public health in a specific ecologically sensitive area, provided the
measures are restricted to those areas and provided that the Commission is duly informed in
advance.
Objectives of the workshop
Objective is to familiarise the beneficiary with the EU legislation on cars and vans, fuel quality and
renewables, with a particular emphasis on the planning and preparation in the transposition and
implementation of the relevant EU legislation.
The expected results are:
- Understanding of the EU regulatory architecture on legislation related to cars and vans;
- Improved understanding of the required steps towards transposition and implementation of the obligations arising from the EU F-gases and ODS Regulations.
