Although Pedro Navarro, director of the DGT, He asserted a year ago that the process of redefining the classification system The environmental labeling scheme was already in place and seemed unstoppable; however, the Congress of Deputies approved the new Sustainable Mobility Law last week without including the fifteenth additional provision, which was supposed to allow the Directorate General of Traffic to establish the appropriate mechanisms to modify the criteria for assigning environmental labels to new vehicles.

One of the main fears that until recently most car manufacturers in Europe had was the so-called CAFE regulation (clean air for Europe, or Clean Air for Europe), an anti-pollution plan that planned to reduce CO₂ emissions this year by 15% compared to 2020 levels. In other words, manufacturers had to face a maximum emissions limit of 93.6 grams of very high emissions this year in 2025.