28.7.93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 186/21 ' (Acts whose publicatidn is not obligator;}) - COUNCIL COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 93/59/EEC of 28 June 1993 amending Directive 70/220/EEC on the app'roximation of the laws of the Member>States relating to measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having' regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100a thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1), -In cooperation with the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas it is important to adopt-measures within the context of the internal market; whereas the internal market comprises an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured; Whereas the first programme of action of the European Communities on protection of the environment, approved on 22 November 1973 (%), called for account to be taken of the latest scientific advances in ‘combating atmospheric pollution caused by gases emitted from motor vehicles and for directives adopted previously to be amended accordingly; whereas the third programme of action, approved on 7 February 1983 (), provides for additional (1) O No C 100, 22. 4. 1992, p. 7. (2) O] No C 305, 23. 11. 1992, p. 120 and O] No No C 176, 28. 6. 1993. . (3) O] No C 313, 30. 11. 1992, p. 11. (4) O] No C 112, 20. 12. 1973, p. 1. (5) O] No C 46, 17. 2. 1983, p. 1.  efforts to be made to reduce substantially the present level of emissions of pollutants from motor vehicles; Whereas Directive 70/220/EEC (6) is one of the separate directives of the EEC type-approval procedure which has been established by Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (7); Whereas Directive 70/220/EEC lays down the limit values for carbon monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbon emissions from the engines of such vehicles; whereas these limit values were first reduced by Directive 74/290/EEC (8) and supplemented, in  accordance  with  Directive 77/102/EEC (%) by limit values for permissible emissions of nitrogen oxides; whereas the limit values for these three types of pollution were successively reduced by Directives 78/665/EEC (19), 83/351/EEC (1) and 88/76/EEC (12), limit values for particulate pollutant emissions from diesel engines were introduced by Directive 88/436/EEC (13) and more stringent European standards for the emissions of gaseous pollutants of cars below 1 400 cm? by Directive 89/458/EEC (14); whereas these standards have been (6) OJ No L 76, 6. 4. 1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by _ Directive 91/441/EEC (O] No L 242, 30. 8. 1991, p. 1). (7) O] NoL 42, 23. 2. 1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 92/53/EEC (O] No L 225, 10. 8. 1992, p. 1). (3) O] No L 159, 15. 6. 1974, p. 61. (%) O] NoL 32, 3. 2. 1977, p. 32. (19 O] No L 223, 14. 8. 1978, p. 48. (1) O] No L 197, 20. 7. 1983, p. 1. (12) O] No L 36, 9. 2. 1988, p. 1. (13) OJ No L 214, 6. 8. 1988, p. 1. (14) O] No L 226,3. 8. 1989, p. 1.