A number of organizations and radical parties are now demanding that Denmark ban new fossil-fuel cars as early as 2025. There is just the problem that a ban would be illegal.
The Council for Green Transition and the think tank Concito are now demanding that all new diesel and petrol cars be affected by a ban in Denmark from 2025.
The proposal has the support of several political parties. From Enhedslisten to SF, Alternativet and Radikale want to ban petrol and diesel cars almost immediately.
That's what Politiken writes.
The argument from both the organizations and the political parties is that electric cars are now so good and so cheap that Denmark will have to ban new diesel and petrol cars from next year.
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– We have seen that the prices of electric cars are falling, and smaller, cheaper electric cars are now coming onto the market.
– So it is not unreasonable to make an actual stop from 1 January 2025, says program manager at Concito, Soren Have, to the newspaper.
The only problem is that such a ban is blatantly illegal. The then EU Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska confirmed this back in 2019 in a reply to the Danish Parliament.
At the time, the then Social Democratic government in Christiansborg investigated how a previous Liberal proposal for a ban on new fossil-fuel cars in 2030 could be implemented.
But it cannot do that at all. This is all due to the EU's regulations on type approvals, which Denmark as a member state is obliged to comply with.
– According to current EU type approval legislation, a complete ban on the marketing, import or registration of new petrol and diesel cars in a Member State is not compatible with EU law, wrote Elżbieta Bieńkowska to the Parliament's European Committee.
