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Interactions between the automobile industry and specific policies
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Interactions between the automobile industry and specific policies
A number of policy fields are closely linked to the car industry and affect activity within the sector. The aim of the European car industry to build safer and more environmentally-friendly vehicles clearly ties in with transport and environmental policy, and also actively stimulates research and development.
INTERACTION WITH TRANSPORT POLICY
- Road transport operators: conditions for the pursuit of the occupation
- Responding to the crisis in the European automotive industry
- Road safety: Road Safety Action Programme (2003-2010)
- Road safety: cross-border application of the legislation
- Motor vehicles and trailers: vehicle registration documents
- Motor vehicles with trailers: distinguishing sign of the Member State of registration
- Motor vehicles and their trailers: roadworthiness testing of heavy goods vehicles
- Road safety: Driving licences
- Motor vehicles with trailers: roadworthiness test
- Drinking and driving: Maximum authorised level of alcohol in the blood
INTERACTION WITH ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
End-of-life vehicles
- End-of-life vehicles
- The reusing, recycling and recovering of motor vehicles
Fuels
- EU strategy for biofuels
- Quality of petrol and diesel fuels: sulphur and lead
Polluting emissions
- Reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from light commercial vehicles
- Reduction in CO? emissions of new passenger cars
- Emissions from heavy duty vehicles (Euro VI): certification rules
- “Green” vehicles: a European strategy
- Clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles
- Reduction of pollutant emissions from light vehicles
- Emissions from diesel and gas engines (up until 2013)
- Pollutant gases of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
- Emissions from air conditioning systems in motor vehicles
- Non-road mobile machinery: gaseous pollutants
- Information on the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of new cars
Noise pollution
- Motor vehicles with trailers: permissible sound level
INTERACTION WITH COMPETITION POLICY
- Motor vehicle distribution and after-sales service
INTERACTION WITH RESEARCH AND INNOVATION POLICY
- Satellite navigation: Galileo
INTERACTION WITH THE RULES OF THE INTERNAL MARKET
Free movement of goods
- Procedures for the registration of motor vehicles originating in another Member State
Car insurance
- Civil liability insurance for motor vehicles
- Motor vehicle liability insurance: freedom to provide services
Intellectual property
- Harmonisation of Member States’ legislation on designs
INTERACTION WITH TAXATION POLICY
- Passenger car related taxes
- Tax-free allowances: permanent or temporary importation of private motor vehicles
- Taxation of heavy goods vehicles: Eurovignette Directive
- Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity
- Fiscal marking of gas oils and kerosene
INTERACTION WITH THE AREA OF JUSTICE, FREEDOM AND SECURITY
- Combating cross-border vehicle crime