The authority German accuse Fca, those Italian defend the work of the house, italo-american. A fight that has been going on for a year and again after the statements made by the minister of transport, the German Alexander Dobrindt to the Bild am Sonntag: "for months, the Italian authorities knew that according to the opinion of our expert Fca used devices off illegal". Dobrindt refers to the hypothesis of a use of the software irregular for tests on the issues, in months, the subject of the controversy between the Rome and Berlin, as told by an article in the Rt.en. The Italian response has arrived to the mouth of the minister for economic Development, Carlo Calenda: "Berlin, if you are concerned with Volkswagen, not a penny of damage".
The minister Dorbrindt pointed out that Fca has "refused to collaborate in the investigation" and that the Eu commission "must consequently ensure that the call" some of the models. A request that has been defined as "totally inadmissible" by the minister of Transport Graziano Delrio. "We have agreed to establish in Brussels a commission of mediation, because we have nothing to hide – answer Delrio to a German colleague – our test demonstrate that there are no devices illegal and unusual behavior".
Already Friday, however, the deputy minister for Transport Riccardo Nencini had been called upon to answer Brussels of the shortcomings of the report prepared last July by his dicastery, after the performed tests on 14 models of euro 5 diesel, including seven Fca. And to answer the accusations made against the Fca on the part of the German authorities, which they discovered in some of the approved models in Italy, the reduction of the operation of control systems emissions (valves, Egr) after 22 minutes of driving, barely two minutes in most of the test duration of european approval. Nencini had called it "incomprehensible" the insistence of the German government.
for its part, the european Commission, through a spokesman, always Friday, had made it known that he was "running out of time" for the Italian authorities to give the explanations required. "Are the member States to be responsible for the certification of the car" for their entry in the european market, "in this context – had added the spokesperson – the Germany has raised serious concerns about the compatibility of a model Fiat with the european legislation on the emissions from cars. What the Italian authorities dispute".
According to Delrio, "this interpretation of Germany goes against the rules that we have responsibility of every Nation to their manufacturers. We have not requested any further investigation on the Volkswagen, we trusted them. Is it right that the comparison takes place on the mutual trust and respect". As for the future, the minister wanted to emphasize that the strategies in Italy", aim to reduce drastically the emissions of Co2 in the road transport sector. For this, we decided, together with the other european Countries, that by the end of 2017 will enter in force the test of the emission control performed directly on the road, where the behavior of the vehicle is more responsive to the usual".
In the margin of the record of 'face to Face', the program led by Giovanni Minoli, broadcast tonight on La7, came replication instead of Calenda. He bounced back to the sender of the request for clarification from the German and with respect to the indictment against Fca presented by'environmental protection Agency the american (Epa) commented: "The agencies Use are usually quite independent. But now I don’t know, you have to see the cards".
