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Emissions testing in a lab in the Joint Research Centre in Italy, October 2016 (Photo: Peter Teffer)

EU told of possible emission cheating in 2012

The EU Commission and member states were informed of suspicions that carmakers were cheating emissions tests in 2012, an internal document seen by EUobserver suggests.

Shortly after the Volkswagen scandal emerged in September 2015, the commission said it had "no indications of defeat devices being used by car manufacturers in Europe". Defeat devices reduce the effectiveness of a car's anti-pollution system.

An e-mail from the commission's in-house science body, the Joint Research ...

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Emissions testing in a lab in the Joint Research Centre in Italy, October 2016 (Photo: Peter Teffer)

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