This means that limits for brake and tire wear will also be introduced for the first time. The Austrian freight forwarders were always critical of Euro 7. The threat of additional costs was argued. The EU states and the European Parliament still have to formally approve the agreement. According to Parliament, the rules will apply to cars and vans 30 months after they come into force and to buses and trucks 48 months after this date.
The new rules are intended to regulate pollutant emissions from vehicles such as cars, vans and trucks more strictly than before. Such pollutants include, for example, nitrogen oxides. What is new is that substances harmful to health such as fine dust, which can be caused by tire wear or braking, will also be regulated in the future. This means that electric cars and hydrogen vehicles are also affected by the rules. Until now, exhaust gases have been the focus of the Euro standards.
Euro 6 previously regulated nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), particles, hydrocarbons and methane as well as ammonia for trucks and buses.
According to studies by the European Environment Agency and the so-called Joint Research Center, road traffic was responsible for 39 percent of harmful NOx emissions (nitrogen oxides) in 2018 – 47 percent in cities – and 11 percent of total PM10 emissions (fine dust).
