Monitoring of CO2 emissions from passenger cars – Regulation 443/2009

Since 2010 the EEA is collecting data from passenger cars registered in all EU Member States. The scheduling for the monitoring is the following:

1. Member States shall record information for each new passenger car and van registered in its territory and transmit this information to the Commission by 28 February of each year. Data are submitted to the Central Data Repository managed by the EEA (http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/)
2. The EEA performs several quality checks in order to evaluate the accuracy and the quality of the dataset. On the basis of the checks and the feedbacks from Member States the EEA finalises and publishes the preliminary database. At the same time, notification letters are sent to manufacturers informing them of their provisional CO₂ performances.
3. Manufacturers can, within three months of being notified of the provisional calculation, notify the Commission of any errors in the data.
4. The EEA and the European Commission assess the manufacturers’ corrections, and, where justified, take them into account for the calculation of the manufacturer final average CO₂ emissions and specific emission targets. The final data and targets are to be published by 31 October each year.

 The data are required for the calculation by the Commission of the average specific emissions of CO2 from new passenger cars and for setting the specific emissions targets that shall be met by car manufacturers. The database provides the detailed data without taking into account other factors required for the calculation of specific emissions targets, such as phase-in percentages, credits for low emitting vehicles and E85 fuelled vehicles, or eco-innovation credits. In order to calculate the average specific emissions and specific emission targets the Commission considers only those vehicles for which emission and mass are available.