European Union negotiators agreed to new rules that give Brussels the power to check up on national car approval authorities after Germany and Italy dropped their resistance to the EU having greater control. Under the new regulation, the EU executive will be able to trigger EU-wide recalls, carry out checks on cars and fine automakers up to 30,000 euros per car for breaches of the rules. Under current rules, national bodies, such as Germany's KBA authority, approve new cars and only they have the power to revoke those licenses. The draft law allows the EU to carry out an audit of national authorities which approve vehicle types and sets a minimum number of on-road emissions tests a country is obliged to carry out  after such checks in the U.S. helped to uncover the Volkswagen emissions-rigging scandal.

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