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volkswagenThe European Parliament has agreed to the setting up of a special inquiry committee, lasting 12 months, to investigate alleged contraventions of European Union law and alleged maladministration in the application of Union law that led to the recent ''diesel gate'' scandal.

In particular, the inquiry shall investigate why so called 'defeat devices' were permitted to be installed in millions of cars, why the European Commission and Member States failed to comply with the obligation to enforce EU emissions legislation and why tests reflecting real-world driving conditions were not introduced in a timely manner.

The ALDE Group pushed for the setting up of this committee and will have four full members; Dita Charanzova MEP (ANO 2011, Czech Republic), Fredrick Federley MEP (Centre party, Sweden), Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy (D66, Netherlands) and Dominique Riquet (Parti Radical -UDI, France) and four substitute members:  Philippe De Backer MEP (Open VLD, Belgium), Robert Rochefort MEP (MoDem, France), Nils Torvalds (Svenska folkpartiet, Finland),  Gesine Meissner (FDP,Germany)

Guy Verhofstadt, President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe commented this afternoon: "Something has gone badly wrong and I hope this committee will find out why EU law has not been upheld. European Liberals and Democrats have four tenacious and dedicated full members of the committee, who I am certain will give this inquiry the teeth it needs. No stone should be left unturned in the fight to uncover the truth about this environmental and public health calamity; someone has to take responsibility."

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