Updated on : 23-02-2026
| Regulation (EU) 2024/1257 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 April 2024 on type-approval of motor vehicles and engines and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) introduces, inter alia, stricter lifetime requirements for the emission performance of vehicles, engines and pollution control systems and an ‘additional lifetime’ period that extends 25 per cent beyond the vehicle’s ‘main lifetime’. Durability multipliers are introduced in Annex IV Table 2 of the Euro 7 Regulation to account for the deterioration of emission reduction systems beyond the main lifetime. In accordance with Article 15(1)(f) of the Euro 7 Regulation, this initiative sets out durability multipliers of 1.2 for gaseous pollutants of heavy-duty vehicles of categories M3, N2 and N3 in Table 2 of Annex IV |