Thread by @DaveKeating

Just in: EU national governments have just passed #CombustionEngineBan legislation.

Germany dropped its block on final adoption after being given a written guarantee from the Commission they will create a new category of ICE vehicles running only on #eFuel exempt from 2035 ban

Controversially, Germany has instructed the Commission to do this through a delegated act added into existing Euro6 type approval legislation - which could be forced through with no vote by the 🇪🇺Parliament or member states.

Expect already-angry MEPs to push back hard on this.

If a legal objection is successful against using a no-vote delegated act to do this politically sensitive thing, then 🇪🇺Commission will move to Plan B: revising the legislation (to Euro7).

That would need approval by 🇪🇺Parliament & 🇪🇺Council.

So, this ‘guarantee’ Commission signed with Germany isn’t a guarantee they can make.

This future proposal can be rejected by the 🇪🇺Parliament. MEPs are now furious about what 🇩🇪did here, and they could reject it just out of spite.

But then it’s too late for 🇩🇪to kill 2035 van.

The craziest thing about all this is that the legislation is up for review in 3 years anyway! Germany could have brought up this objection then without infuriating MEPs and other governments.

It’s yet another example of this 🇩🇪government’s recent clumsy behaviour in Brussels.

It may seem 🇩🇪won here, and Lindner will claim this. But they really didn’t. The regulation passed today unchanged from last month.

🇩🇪voted for it on a promise of a future proposal that will probably be rejected.

So to answer my question last week: no. energymonitor.ai/sectors/transp…