Overview
- Lawmakers fast-tracked approval of a change letting truck makers bank more emissions credits until 2029 to offset tougher targets later.
- The revision scraps the annual reduction curve for 2026–2029, effectively keeping the 2025 benchmark of a 15% cut as the reference for those years.
- Legally binding fleet targets remain unchanged at 15% by 2025, 45% by 2030, 65% by 2035, and 90% by 2040 versus 2019 levels.
- New city buses are explicitly excluded from the eased credit provisions.
- EU governments must still give formal approval, which is expected to be procedural, as one environmental group warns the change could slow the uptake of zero-emission trucks.