Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Transport the incentives he proposes to introduce to encourage the use of trucks with engines that fit the criteria of Euro 4 status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11407/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Under EU directive 88/77/EC, as amended by Directive 1999/96/EC, on the approximation of the laws relating to the measures to be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from compression ignition engines for use in vehicles and the emission of gaseous pollutants from positive ignition engines fuelled with natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas for use in vehicles, member states are required to prohibit the registration, sale, entry into service or use of new trucks where the emissions of gaseous and particulate pollutants and opacity of smoke from the engine do not comply with the limit values set out in row B1 of the tables in section 6.2.1 of Annex I, commonly referred to as Euro 4. Accordingly new trucks being registered and entered into service here on or after 1 October 2006 must, inter alia, meet the emission limits of row B1. I have no plans to incentivise the earlier implementation of these emission limits for new trucks being registered here.