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Officials have set a six-month window for the owners of all combustion-engine vehicles to have their emissions tested and obtain a certificate of verification. Vehicles found faulty during inspections will be granted four months to cut emission levels down, according to the directive.
Old cars and trucks may soon be forced off Ethiopia’s roads as a new directive from the Ministry of Transport and Logistics empowers the government to permanently suspend the operation of vehicles that fail to comply with newly set greenhouse gas emission standards.
The ‘Directive on Vehicle Emission Pollutant Control’ entails a barrage of administrative consequences for vehicles that fail to meet the standards within a set grace period, eventually ending in permanent suspension.
Ministry officials convened with public and private sector stakeholders on Friday to provide an overview of how the implementation of the directive will proceed.
Any vehicle importer, assembler or manufacturer of new or used vehicles will now be responsible for ensuring the vehicles meet gas emission standards and issuing a certificate of verification for each vehicle.
Officials have set a six-month window for the owners of all combustion-engine vehicles to have their emissions tested and obtain a certificate of verification. Vehicles found faulty during inspections will be granted four months to cut emission levels down, according to the directive. The Transport Ministry is tasked with regulating the installation of devices that can cut down vehicle emissions.
The Ethiopian Standards Institute is tasked with determining acceptable emission levels for pollutants, including hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and particulate matter, among others.
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Melaku and policymakers at the Ministry want to see Ethiopia’s fledgling vehicle assembly industry shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids, but investors who spoke to The Reporter caution that a sudden transition is infeasible and could wind up costing thousands of jobs.
