Air pollution: cold start emission limits for motor vehicles during warming-up (amend. Directive 70/220/EEC)

The Council accepted the following amendments of the European Parliament in full: - a nine-month transitional period as of the entry into force of the directive, instead of the specific date of 30/06/01.); - the amendment indicating that the Type VI test is to apply to all positive ignition engined vehicles of categories M and N; - tighter CO and HC limit values for vehicles of category N1, classes II and III; - the amendment clarifying the categories of vehicles for which the cold test is to apply. However, for the sake of further legal clarity, and in line with the provisions of directive 98/69/EC, the Council also considered that the directive should specify that existing legislation stipulates 1 January 2002 as the application date for new types of vehicles of category M1 and category N1, Class I, except vehicles designed to carry more than six occupants and vehicles the maximum mass of which exceeds 2500 kg.�