(7b) With a view to bringing the specific CO2 emissions quoted for new passenger cars more closely into line with the emissions actually generated during normal conditions of use, the Commission should seek to ensure that the new international light-duty vehicle test procedure (World Light-Duty Test Cycle – WLTC/P) is finalised as soon as possible, so that it may be adopted at Union level by the end of 2014 and introduced in January 2017.

In order to ensure that specific CO 2 emissions quoted for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles are brought more closely into line with the emissions actually generated during normal conditions of use, the WLTP should be applied at the earliest opportunity.

1. By 31 October 2016, and every three years thereafter, measures shall be adopted to amend Annex I to adjust the figure M0, referred to therein, to the average mass of new light commercial vehicles in the previous three calendar years.

They are of differing value, and it is their utility value that is decisive.

– if patents were awarded for genes, future generations would come to perceive life as an invention pure and simple, in which the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, intrinsic value and utilitarian value, would be erased, reducing life itself to the rank of an object without any unique or essential quality to distinguish it from a basically mechanical system;

The agreement will enable a new, twodstage reduction to be made in the upper limits for carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide from commercial vehicles and the introduction of checks on particulate emissions from lorries and other commercial vehicles. Current levels Stage 1 Stage 2 (1 October 1996) CO 4.9 g/Kwh 4.5 g/Kwh 4.0 g/Kwh HC 1.23 g/Kwh 1.1 g/Kwh 1.1 g/Kwh NOx 9.0 g/Kwh 8.0 g/Kwh 7.0 g/Kwh particulates 0.70 g/Kwh 0.36 g/Kwh 0.15 g/Kwh This undertaking is important in that it puts into practice the Community's desire to reduce pollution significantly.