Submitted on Saturday 24th October 2015
Rejected on Friday 31st March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban the sales of new VW group vehicles fitted with emissions cheating software.
From 2009 Volkswagen group has miss-sold around 11Million Diesel cars globally (1.2Million in UK). These cars use computers built for cheating emissions tests. They've been found to produce up to 40times the NOx output on the road and include Audi, Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda and VW Commercial vehicles.
Switzerland has already banned the sale of these engines which include 1.2, 1.6 and 2.0 TDi engines produced from 2009 to 2016.
UK cars that are effected;
Volkswagen -508,276
Audi -393,450
SEAT -76,773
Skoda -131,569
VW commercial vehicles -79,838
VW group has announced this cheat system could be in production until 2016.
This petition is in place to ban further sales of VW-groups Emission cheating diesel engines, And for them to offer customers already effected some sort of large compensation.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This would be a decision for the European Union and not the UK Government or Parliament. You could start a new petition asking for the UK to work with the EU on this issue.
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