areas the federal administrative court in line six has ruled that municipal authorities are allowed to impose driving bans on diesel vehicles and by mentalists have been calling for a diesel ban for years this is thousands of people a year die prematurely as a result of not using dioxide emissions from diesel car exhausts the parties in some cities were in favor of at least a partial ban did not believe that current laws allow them to impose these restrictions. let me how doing a political correspondent simon young has been following the court proceedings in a live signal joins us now from our parliamentary studios here in britain simon first of four tell us more about what the court's verdict is. yeah region seems to be your federal administrative court has rejected the challenges there were people said you know maybe the idea of banning diesel vehicles or some of them anyway from parts of cities that possibly wasn't legal this causes say

it is legal and that seems to open the way for a number of changes to the law a lot of people have said what will be needed is a nationwide regime that can be a ploy to everywhere that they had been some talk about the court boss in the decision up to a higher european court has that now been ruled out. you know i don't know what the court has said about that presumably if there was such a challenge or a further legal challenge the european court might want to look a look at it the judge in this court has saved during these proceedings he was aware of the urgency with which the european court of justice has been looking at this issue because after all it's not just about administrative questions but it's about public health as well and people are dying prematurely around europe say

as a result of the emissions from diesel vehicles so this is not it was eagerly anticipated how are german aponte is municipal and federal likely to react to the ruling. well i think as i said there probably be a need for a nationwide regime a lot of people have been saying that what will have to happen now is that the so-called blue disc a european proposed blue disc for cars that isn't in force yet which would allow authorities to distinguish between a cleaner diesel cars and the older ones which are highly policing it seems that technological advances mean that some diesel vehicles and now actually rather clean and that has resulted in in cleaner air but what we do seem to be facing is the

prospect that in some german cities anyway you know local authorities governments city governments will introduce bans in some places on some vehicles it's going to be difficult to do the police have said that they don't have the resources necessarily to enforce it in every case and it's a bit of a headache for administrations but they're going to have to react to this this far reaching court decision today and some how is this case connected to the does it get scandal involving com makers in particular folks modern cheating on the emissions levels of their disease they can. well of course it's just another ramification from that from the frustration that people have felt since it emerged that folds vog and other car makers which cheating when it came to emissions tests and it could well be that if there are driving bans some

owners of diesel vehicles will feel that that gives them a stronger case in demanding compensation or other forms of redress from the car makers because effectively their cause they won't be of use them to get to work they'll just be a lump of metal sitting in the driveway and people will say that something has to happen carmakers are saying they can fiddle with the software and make engines work better but a lot of people are saying this needs actually a hardware refit of dirty diesel engines and it may be that this adds to the pressure on car makers actually to get on with that work which is going to be costly but it's very necessary yes thank you simon ended up bottom interest to this thank you very much for that. now let's talk more about this about it now and the kind of consequences it could have with me as my colleague christopher co-founded obvious business as a christian so we've seen that the court has ruled that a diesel bans can be imposed in certain cities in germany what this is

a huge victory fundamentalist how do you see it just as. it is a big victory for environmentalists has been one group in particular the d.u.h. or environmental action germany as they call themselves who have been lobbying hard for this this diesel ban who have applied legal action in order to enforce it so this verdict yes it is it is a big success for them so big successfully in my mentors but a huge blow perhaps for the car industry because it would have been reeling under all this emissions cheating scandal which astonished its reputation what route for them but that is a very good question i feel that there's a question mark popping up in every corner for the car industry at the moment the industry itself is under immense pressure not only when it comes to taking care of the emissions but also from from from new competitors from silicon valley's so their their basic business model is under attack here and they have to deal with this with this emissions issue now as simon young just said they say well we can

fiddle with the software this apparently is not a feasible way to go here so. which way they will go is entirely out in the open but one thing is for sure it's bound to be costly because if you have to refit these these models that's going to cost you a lot of money if people whose diesel cars are basically worthless now are trying to get rid of it that's going to cost you money and a buy back scheme which could be potentially out there so yeah there are difficult times ahead for the german car industry so i mean the good to live has said that cities can band does it because if they want but how likely is it that cities will ban them that is another good question. municipalities and city for the cities for that matter communities they also depend aubrey asli on on on transportation on buses on on ambulances on other modes of transportation which all use diesel

engines now for these particular segments they have already been talks about. taking them out of this span not applying the ban to them. on the other hand obviously cities and communities they want to also they want to be law abiding they want to reduce the pollution levels in the air so the chance that they will actually enforce this ban in my opinion is there yes it's great yeah and what about the consumers i mean millions of germans drive because what will this going to if there's a potential if there is a ban in something what does it mean for them it means for them that another big problem people may not be able to get to work to drive into the city. so young also said basically their cars may be reduced to just a pile of of metal sitting sitting in the driveway so this band poses big questions

for consumers as well obviously. officials and other authorities are. always been trying to push public transportation this may also be one way to go now but germans like individual mobility as many people around the world do and so not being able to drive your car. will pose a tremendous challenge to many but all this is also has used a huge ramifications for public transport in so lots of buses and. facilities and d's electron billions is not only for public transport but also for companies small companies delivery companies carpenters plumbers all these kind of trades and small companies that have their their corporate not their corporation but that their business fit with a utility vehicle which usually run on diesel because they run for

a long time very. reliably so this this will this will have a big impact on them and i suspect there will be strong lobbying for them to be somewhat exempted from this diesel ban as well and then the question arises what good is it worse than any. you know even has been going to telling me that it has pollution levels which are above the e.u. a safety threshold in subsidy seventy cities for quite a while germany would have been slow to clean up its act on this issue quite apparently quite apparently it has been slow and this is where the pressure is coming from this is where the pressure is coming from the e.u. saying you have been exceeding our levels time and time again you need to take care of this and this is what is being done now huge ramifications and of course we'll be talking about this for quite a while to come christopher coble from a business thank you very much for your initial reactions to that courtroom.

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