Introductory text

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 443/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 setting emission performance standards for new passenger cars as part of the Community’s integrated approach to reduce CO₂ emissions from light-duty vehicles^f1, and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 8(5) and Article 10(1) thereof,

Whereas:

The Commission is required, pursuant to Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 443/2009, to confirm each year the average specific emissions of CO₂ and the specific emissions target for each manufacturer of passenger cars in the Union as well as for each pool of manufacturers formed in accordance with Article 7(1) of that Regulation. On the basis of that confirmation, the Commission is to determine whether manufacturers and pools have complied with the requirements of Article 4 of that Regulation.

Pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 443/2009, the targets are binding on manufacturers and pools with effect from 2012. The average specific emissions of manufacturers for 2012 are calculated in accordance with the second paragraph of that Article and take into account 65 % of the manufacturer’s new cars registered in that year.

The detailed data to be used for the calculation of the average specific emissions and the specific emissions targets is set out in point 1 of Part A and in Part C of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 443/2009 and is based on Member States’ registrations of new passenger cars during the preceding calendar year. The data is taken from the certificates of conformity issued by the manufacturers or from documents providing equivalent information in accordance with Article 3(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1014/2010^f2.

All Member States submitted the data for 2012 to the Commission by the deadline of 28 February 2013 in accordance with Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 443/2009. Where, as a result of the verification of the data by the Commission, it was evident that certain data were missing or manifestly incorrect, the Commission contacted the Member States concerned and, subject to the agreement of those Member States, adjusted or completed the data accordingly. Where no agreement could be reached with a Member State, the provisional data of that Member State was not adjusted.

On 30 April 2013, the Commission published the provisional data and notified 85 manufacturers of the provisional calculations of their average specific emissions of CO₂ in 2012 and their specific emissions targets in accordance with Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 443/2009. Manufacturers were asked to verify the data and to notify the Commission of any errors within three months of receipt of the notification in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 8(5) of that Regulation and Article 9(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1014/2010. Eight manufacturers accepted the preliminary data without corrections whilst 40 manufacturers submitted notifications of errors within the given deadline.

For the remaining 37 manufacturers that did not notify any errors in the datasets or respond otherwise, the provisional data and provisional calculations of the average specific emissions and the specific emissions targets should be confirmed without adjustments.

The Commission has verified the corrections notified by the manufacturers and the respective justifications as expressed through the error codes specified in Article 9(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1014/2010 and the dataset has been adjusted as appropriate.

In the case of records that have been identified by manufacturers with the error code B as set out in Article 9(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1014/2010, it is necessary to take into account the fact that manufacturers cannot verify or correct those records appropriately due to missing or incorrect identification parameters. Accordingly, an error margin should be applied to the CO₂ emission and mass values in those records.

The error margin should be calculated as the difference between the distances to the specific emissions target expressed as the average emissions subtracted from the specific emissions targets calculated including and excluding those registrations that cannot be verified by the manufacturers. Regardless of whether that difference is positive or negative, the error margin should always improve the distance to the target of the manufacturer.

In accordance with Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 443/2009, a manufacturer should be considered as compliant with its specific emission target referred to in Article 4 of that Regulation where the average emissions indicated in this Decision are lower than the specific emissions target, expressed as a negative distance to target. Where the average emissions exceed the specific emissions target, an excess emission premium should be imposed in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 443/2009, unless the manufacturer concerned benefits from an exemption from that target or is a member of a pool in accordance with Article 7 of that Regulation and the pool complies with its specific emissions target.

The average specific emissions of CO₂ from new passenger cars registered in 2012, the specific emissions targets and the difference between those two values should be confirmed accordingly,

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