“The measure is aimed above all at fraudsters, people who consciously drive with a defective filter or who remove it”, explained Wednesday the Flemish Minister for Mobility, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld).
Vehicles emit up to 480 times more particles when filters are damaged, worn out or removed, says her Brussels colleague, Elke Van den Brandt (Groen).
According to the competent ministers, with this new test which will integrate a particle counter, Belgium will take a step ahead of other European countries in terms of detection, and therefore the fight once morest pollution.
