Regulation (EU) 2020/1040 to amend Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 on Stage V emissions for non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) was published July 17 in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This final step of the legislative process confirms that the 12-month extension of certain transitional provisions is officially EU law and is applicable retroactively from July 1, 2020.
This amendment to the Stage V Regulation extends by 12 months the June 30, 2020, and December31, 2020, deadlines for the production and placing on the market of NRMM and tractors fitted with transition engines <56kW and ≥130kW.
PSR Analysis: The European industry associations representing NRMM manufacturers, namely CECE, CEMA, EGMF, United Municipal Equipment & Cleaning, European and FEM have been actively lobbying the EU institutions for several months, following the Covid pandemic in order to obtain postponement of the Stage V emissions standards.
This news has a significant impact on all applications, but above all on the <56kW ones. In fact, the impact on machine cost in this power band would have been particularly substantial with increases up to 30% compared to Stage IV Final equal machines.
As reported in our OE Link™ production database, some 360,000 mobile machines were produced in 2019 in the <56kW powerband. Following the impact of the Covid pandemic and its repercussion on the industry we are forecasting this number to shrink to 330,000 for 2021, the year of original implementation of the new Stage V emissions regulations.
With the new Regulation (EU) 2020/1040, OEMs will have an extra year to produce the new machines. More importantly, the market will have one extra year to absorb the disastrous consequences of Covid-19 and be ready to switch to Stage V in 2022, when we predict 350K machines will be manufactured in this range. PSR
Emiliano Marzoli is Senior Business development Manager – Europe, for Power Systems Research
