OUTDOORS EMISSIONS
October 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has loosened the proposed emissions directive on outdoors mobile equipment, exempting chainsaws and granting more generous emission limits and longer compliance deadlines to manufacturers of generators, pumps and the engines for snow-throwers. MEP's however accepted the rest of the package, which aims to cut pollution caused by machines such as lawnmowers and hedge trimmers.
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has loosened the proposed emissions directive on outdoors mobile equipment, exempting chainsaws and granting more generous emission limits and longer compliance deadlines to manufacturers of generators, pumps and the engines for snow-throwers. MEP's however accepted the rest of the package, which aims to cut pollution caused by machines such as lawnmowers and hedge trimmers.
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