Incorrect environmental labeling, or outside what the law contemplates, is something that ANESDOR has been denouncing for some time. Since the Euro5 regulations came into force, all motorcycles that have been registered first under it and then with the update to Euro5+, have received the letter C environmental label.
This means that it is exactly the same as the models with previous approval. But the problem is not at that point, but that these new stages are not included in the Royal Decree that regulates them and, therefore, all Euro5 and Euro5+ category L vehicles (mopeds, motorcycles, tricycles and quadricycles) are in a legal vacuum.
According to the figures managed by ANESDOR, the National Association of Companies in the Two-Wheel Sector, there are more than one million vehicles in our country that are in this regulatory vacuum by continuing to receive the letter C environmental labeling, when it is not even contemplated.
It goes without saying that in terms of emissions, this million vehicles are well below the previous ones and equivalent, which implies that they should receive an ECO label like that of passenger cars. But time and again the institutional rejection remains present.
This time it was due to the new Sustainable Mobility Law, which once again leaves out the motorcycle, and the Congress of Deputies has decided that there will be no obligation to review the environmental labeling system in that law.
How does illegal environmental labeling affect motorcycle users?
Beyond the fight that ANESDOR maintains, what is certain is that not having an ECO label on more than a million motorcycles has a negative side for all users. The first and most obvious is that this error in labeling means that, with the regulation of Low Emission Zones in many municipalities, which only limit by labels, the motorcycle is harmed.
Furthermore, other incentive plans for ecological mobility also leave out the motorcycle, precisely because of the labeling, despite the fact that the emissions of a car with an ECO label are tremendously higher than those of a motorcycle with a C label.
Thus, a car with an ECO label emits 1.4085 grams per kilometer of CO while the motorcycle is at 0.5303 (-62%), although the difference increases with NOx in grams per kilometer, 0.2831 for cars and 0.0324 for motorcycles (-89%) and PM 0.0025 g/km for cars and 0.0006 for motorcycles (-75%).
Even so, and with these revealing data, the administration continues to turn a deaf ear and the question is, what reason is behind these decisions? Dark interests or simple ineptitude? Either option is extremely serious and should be enough to cause resignations…
