Monitoring of CO2 emissions from vans – Regulation 510/2011

Since 2013 the EEA has been collecting data from vans registered in all EU Member States. The data are required for the calculation by the Commission of the average specific emissions of CO2 from new vans and for setting the specific emissions targets that shall be met by vans manufacturers. The schedule for the monitoring is the following:

1.       Member States shall record information for each new 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.       Van manufacturers transmit for each year data of any van sold in Europe and transmit this information to the Commission by 28 February of each year.

3.       The EEA performs several quality checks in order to assess the accuracy and the quality of the dataset. On the basis of these checks and feedback from Member States the EEA finalises and publishes the preliminary dataset. At the same time, notification letters are sent to manufacturers informing them of their provisional CO₂ performances. Both data from Members States and van manufacturers have been used in the preliminary dataset: in case of matching VINs and matching Mh-fields but missing data in the Member State's submission, the manufacturer data was used to complete the provisional datasets in the fields for emission ('E'), mass ('M'), mass of the base vehicle ('Mb'), and technically permissible maximum laden mass ('TPMLM').

4.       Manufacturers can, within three months of being notified of the provisional calculations, notify the Commission of any errors in the data.

5.       The EEA and the Commission assess the manufacturers’ corrections, and, where justified, take them into account for the calculation of the final average CO₂ emissions and specific emissions targets. The final data and targets are published by 31 October each year.

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.