The introduction of the scheme to reduce carbon emissions by all vehicles has been put back a further four years. The EU regulations were aimed at reducing car emissions by 2012, but have now been postponed to 2015. Penalties for failing to meet the 130g/km have also been changed, and the fines agreed upon last year have been minimized and will not come into effect until 2019.

Under the new rules, Jaguar and several other smaller car manufacturers have been given special deals, and do not need to cut their emissions to the same figures. Manufacturers argued that these smaller companies do not have the same means to change technology, and that the regulations are aimed more towards larger companies. Black cabs are completely exempt from doing anything to reduce their emissions.

Environmentalists are not happy about the new changes, saying that the EU would be inadvertently harming the environment further. With the lower penalty charges, many companies would opt to pay the fines rather than changing the vehicle technology. It would not only work out cheaper for them, but also save them a lot of time and energy. The new penalty charges are almost worthless in the grand scale of things and would be doing nothing to persuade car manufacturers to lower the carbon emissions.

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