The European Commission has the world’s toughest emission standards for non-road mobile machinery (or off-highway vehicles), such as construction equipment, railroad engines, inland waterway vessels, and off-road recreational vehicles. The Stage V standards, adopted by the EU Parliament in July 2016 and published in the Official Journal of the EU as Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 in September 2016, tightened restrictions on non-road engines and equipment and set stricter limits on emissions of particulate matter (PM).

The EU has adopted a series of seven directives over the past two decades to address emissions from non-road engines. Current EU regulation of emissions from these engines consists of various annexes that have been amended eight times since adoption in 1997. These directives left it up to individual EU member states to modify laws to achieve the intended outcomes, which resulted in 28 national laws currently in effect.

NRE denotes engines for non-road mobile machinery intended and suited to move, or to be moved by road, and are not included in any other category and engines with a reference power of less than 560 kW used in place of engines in other categories.

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