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  Draft Road Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance Standards (Cars and Vans) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
  
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  @ MP voted aye for EU derived regulations on the carbon dioxide emissions of newly registered cars and vans to be updated to reflect the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
  
  @ MP voted no against EU derived regulations on the carbon dioxide emissions of newly registered cars and vans being updated to reflect the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
  
  The majority of MPs voted for European Union derived regulations on the carbon dioxide emissions of newly registered cars and vans to be updated to reflect the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the union. 
  
  The regulations, for example, applied an emissions performance target to all vehicles newly registered in Great Britain rather than all those newly registered across the European Union.   
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348213485 draft Road Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance Standards (Cars and Vans) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020], which were laid before this House on 13 October, be approved.
  
  The explanatory memorandum associated with the regulations[1] states:
  
  :If these changes are not made, then the retained EU legislation would fail to function and would have no legal impact on newly registered cars and vans in GB. This would mean that, after the transition period, newly registered cars and vans would not be subject to any functioning CO2 emissions regulation.
  
  However it appears [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/631/contents Regulation (EU) No 2019/631] may have been considered to continue to apply under the terms of the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/16/contents/enacted/data.htm European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 which provided for the retention of existing EU law], even though the Government considers the unamended regulations deficient and inoperable[2]. 
  
  The intent of the regulation was not to change policy, but merely to modify the European Union derived regulations so that they functioned in Great Britain after the end of the implementation period associated with the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the union. There will be differences between the regulations in the European Union and Great Britain as the calculations of both the emissions standards themselves, and related financial penalities, are changed by the regulations to localise them to the United Kingdom, but they are not intended to be substantive differences. 
  
  Not implementing the regulation would have led to a hard to interpret position. 
  
  
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  * [1] [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348213485/pdfs/ukdsiem_9780348213485_en.pdf Draft explanatory memorandum to the draft Road Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance Standards (Cars and Vans) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020], Legislation.gov.uk
  * [2] [https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/regulating-co2-emission-standards-for-new-cars-and-vans-after-transition/co2-emission-performance-standards-for-new-passenger-cars-and-light-commercial-vehicles UK Government consultation on the "CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles", Updated 13 October 2020], Gov.uk
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