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DIPLOMATS from Germany, home to disgraced auto giant Volkswagen, have lobbied behind the scenes to maintain European pollution tests that are widely considered ineffective, leaked documents showed yesterday.
The German position papers, first reported by The Guardian newspaper, request that European Union regulators maintain crucial loopholes in updated car tests that would allow for greater emissions of carbon dioxide than revealed in official results, according to activists.
The Guardian reported the existence of similarly argued positions by France and UK.
The technical documents, dated from in May last year, relate to tests that measure carbon (or CO2) emissions and not the nitrogen oxide pollutants that have been the focus of the Volkswagen uproar.
The papers specifically argue for limits on how the old CO2 test system, known as the NEDC, should be changed to match the stringency of the new one.
In the papers, Germany asks for the correlated test to take place with bigger exceptions than proposed so far by the EU, including the permission to hold the test on tracks that slope downhill.
Activists say this lobbying exposes the hypocrisy of major EU member states that have criticized Volkswagen for rigging pollution tests, while pushing in secret for weaker testing.
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