The vice president of the European Commission for the European Green DealFrans Timmermans, has announced this Saturday a agreement with Germany to lift its veto on the ban on combustion engines in 2035. “We have reached an agreement with Germany on the use future of synthetic fuels in cars“, Timmermans has announced on his Twitter account.

Brussels had raised a possible synthetic fuel lace within the framework of the negotiations for the ban on the sale of combustion vehicles in the European Union (EU) from 2035, a measure that had been paralyzed because the German government wants to include this type of fuel in the agreement.

Stagnant since March

The last step for the final adoption of the ban on marketing combustion vehicles -including those for gasoline, diesel and hybrids- as of 2035 it was postponed on March 3 due to the last minute doubts expressed by Germany and Italy. This new rule is part of the climate package that the EU wants to promote this legislature to reduce the bloc’s polluting emissions by at least 55% on the horizon of 2030 and with respect to those of 1990.

Measure It has already been approved by the plenary session of the European Parliament. on February 14, but it was in the negotiations at the ambassadorial level where Germany showed its reluctance about an agreement between institutions that was already agreed last autumn. “Now we are going to work so that the CO2 standards for cars as soon as possible“, Timmermans added, before warning that the legal framework for the synthetic fuels will only be developed when the basic agreement is unlocked and adopted by the 27.

For his part, the German Minister of Transport, Volker Wissing, promoter of the change, has stated on his Twitter account that “internal combustion engine vehicles may continue to be registered after 2035 if they refuel exclusively with fuels that are neutral in CO2 emissions”. “Europe continues to be technologically neutral”, added the Liberal Democrat minister. Once the dispute with Germany is resolved, the blocking minority in the Council that it formed with Italy to stop the measure and it only remains for the matter to return to the agenda of a forthcoming European Council of Ministers to submit the final adoption to a vote of the 27.