Court decision on driving bans for diesel cars: Environmental Aid wants to help with lawsuit diesel drivers ++ FDP fears “expropriation”

02/22/2018

Court decision on driving bans for diesel cars Environmental aid wants to help with lawsuit Diesel drivers ++ FDP fears “expropriation”

The Federal Administrative Court will decide on Thursday on driving bans for diesel cars in German cities. The judges in Leipzig examine in the final instance whether such prohibitions may be imposed in the fight against the nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution. The developments in the news blog.

9:20 – The German Environmental Aid (DUH) sees their complaints against the air pollution control plans of many cities as an aid to diesel owners to enforce claims. “If a diesel driving ban comes, then diesel vehicles are suddenly threatened and affected by driving bans, which means that the owners have a right to demand rework from manufacturers or just a return,” said Federal Managing Director Jürgen Resch in the ARD Morgenmagazin.

9:00 am – The German Association of Cities charges the federal government with being too lenient with the car manufacturers. The hardware retrofitting of diesel engines is the task of the automotive industry, said chief executive Helmut Dedy in the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Only if something happens there will there be a solution. The federal government must talk to the auto industry “Tacheles”.

8.34 Clock – The FDP also wants to make car manufacturers pay for the retrofitting of diesel vehicles to effectively reduce their pollutants. Her Member of Parliament Daniela Kluckert, chair of the Bundestag Transport Committee, warned on Thursday in the ARD morning magazine before driving bans on dirty diesel. Such driving bans led to the owners of diesel cars being expropriated. Something completely different is the retrofitting.

8:12 – ADAC CEO Alexander Möller calls for the retrofitting of old diesel vehicles and in the cities offers, so that people on public transport could change. Everything had to be done to prevent driving bans, he told Südwestrundfunk.

8.00 clock – Greens faction leader Anton Hofreiter has designated the upcoming court decision on diesel driving bans as a result of idleness in the federal government. “The federal government has laid hands on the lap for many years and left people in the cities with the nitrogen oxides alone,” said Hofreiter the German Press Agency before the trial at the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig on Thursday. The federal government must give the cities a blue plaque on the hand. This should be marked relatively clean cars to regulate driving bans.

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