Екостандарти и екоданъци: три години след "Дизелгейт"
Ecological Standards and Taxes: Three Years after "Dieselgate"

Summary/Abstract: The paper draws on the reflections of “Dieselgate”on two important instruments of the environmental regulation – emission standards and taxes from passenger cars. Although the scandal broke out in the USA, it negatively affected the EU automotive industry and its customers. “Dieselgate” compromised also the regulatory framework for environmental protection in the EU-28. Furthermore, the national governments are still missing a large amount of ecologically oriented taxes from motor vehicles due to the widening gap between real and official greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars. Bulgaria is also negatively affected by “Dieselgate” through the massive imports of cheap diesel cars and their atmospheric pollution. The paper also discusses the obsolete taxes on registration and ownership of passenger cars in this country. It concludes that social and ecological justice are not substitutive, but rather complementary goods in Bulgaria.

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