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:

*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.

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