Baku, Azerbaijan, March 28
By Emil Ismayilov - Trend:
Regarding the application of the Euro-4 ecological standards for vehicles since April 1, 2014, the State Committee for Standardisation, Metrology and Patents made changes to the state standard AZS 636-2012 'Road transport. Environmental classes', the committee reported on March 28
The report notes that changes were made to the content of the concordances table of the environmental class of cars depending on the country and year of production.
In accordance with a decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan, in order to reduce the emission of pollutants by vehicles and improve the environmental situation in the country the Euro-4 ecological standard will be applied to imported and manufactured vehicles in Azerbaijan since April 1, 2014.
As the head of the State Committee Ramiz Hasanov said earlier, the decision on applying the Euro-4 ecological standard is related to the growth of car imports to the country which negatively affects the environment and public health.
The committee head said that around 100,000 cars were imported into the country, over 50,000 of which were used cars. These figures were equal to 64,000 and 27,000 respectively in 2011.
Table of compliance with environmental standards for vehicles on production country and year of manufacture:
Country-producer of motor vehicle |
Producing year of cars |
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complying with the requirements of technical regulations on environmental classes |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
EU countries*, gasoline |
1997 - 2000 |
2001 - 2004 |
Since 2005 |
Since 01.10.2009 |
EU countries*, diesel |
1997 - 2001 |
2002 - 2004 |
Since 2005 |
Since 01.10.2009 |
U.S. |
1996 - 2000 |
2001 - 2003 |
Since 2004 |
- |
Japan |
1998 - 2004 |
2005 - 2010 |
Since 2011 |
- |
China |
2004 - 2007 |
Since 2008 |
Since 2011 |
- |
Korea |
2001 - 2002 |
2003 - 2005 |
Since 2006 |
- |
Ukraine, M category |
Since 2006 |
Since 2010 |
Since 2014 |
- |
Ukraine, N category |
Since 2007 |
Since 2010 |
Since 2014 |
- |
Belarus |
2006 - 2007 |
Since 2008 |
Since 2014 |
- |
Uzbekistan |
2007 - 2009 |
Since 2010 |
Since 2012 |
- |
Kazakhstan |
2006 - 2011 |
Since 2012 |
Since 2014 |
- |
Russia |
2006 - 2007 |
Since 2008 |
Since 2013 |
Since 2014 |
Turkey |
- |
- |
Since 2009 |
- |
Iran |
Since 2009 |
- |
- |
- |
*The EU includes: Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden, and Estonia.
Translated by S.I.
Edited by S.M.