From XNUMX July next year, the MOT for diesel vans and diesel passenger cars will be adjusted. The APK is expanded with a check for the presence of a properly functioning particulate filter. State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven of Infrastructure and Water Management recently announced this. The inspection stations must then be equipped with a particulate matter meter (particle counter), with which they can check whether the emission of particulate matter still meets the legal requirements.

Important step towards healthy mobility

RAI Association chairman Steven van Eijck: “Car and commercial vehicle manufacturers are doing everything in their power to ensure that new vehicles are becoming cleaner, more efficient and safer. It is therefore self-evident that the moment the vehicle leaves the showroom, the new owner has the obligation to ensure that the vehicle always continues to meet the environmental requirements in practice. Thanks to the introduction of the particulate matter meter, some 825.000 passenger cars and 622.000 commercial vehicles will be subjected to a particulate matter measurement at the exhaust in the future MOT. “To measure is to know,” says Van Eijck, “And in this way we ensure that, in addition to new cars, the driving fleet remains as clean as possible. This is an important step towards a healthy mobility system. ” 

According to the RAI Association, the inspections must in the future prevent particulate filters from being removed from all Euro V and Euro VI diesel delivery buses and diesel passenger cars. Malfunctioning particulate filters must be repaired or replaced. Diesel delivery vans have a diesel particulate filter fitted by the manufacturer from 2012, diesel passenger cars have this from 2011. Disabling a particulate filter or removing a particulate filter has been punishable since 2017.

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