Highly‑polluting vehicles days’ numbered

The Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA) and the Transport Bureau (DSAT) have finished drafting regulations on the standards of limitation on exhaust emission and the enhancement for administrative procedures on inspection for cars in the city, Tam Vai Man, the president of DSPA, said in a written reply to legislator Si Ka Lom’s written enquiry.
Meanwhile, Mr. Tam said that DSPA and DSAT had finished drafting the regulations on financial assistance to weed out two-stroke motorcycles. The two regulations are in the progress of entering legislation.
He added that the government is working on the cross-boundary project regarding the abandonment of used cars according to the ‘Framework Agreement on Co-operation between Guangdong and Macau’. Upon implementation of the project, used cars that residents turn in voluntarily or vehicles that join the aforementioned financial assistance scheme would be discarded on a priority basis.
Legislator Si Ka Lom questioned in the written enquiry if the government is slowing down or giving up on cutting heavy polluting vehicles when there is “no space” to fix the problem. He also enquired as to progress on the cross-boundary project regarding the abandonment of used cars according to the ‘Framework Agreement on Co-operation between Guangdong and Macao’.