Heavy-duty Vehicle and Engine Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations

Marginal note:Average standard

• 21 (1) For the 2014 model year and subsequent model years, a company must group all of its Class 2B and Class 3 heavy-duty vehicles and cab-complete vehicles — excluding those that are vocational vehicles or incomplete vocational vehicles — into a fleet based on model year in accordance with section 18 and must ensure that the fleet average CO₂ emission value calculated in accordance with section 23 for that fleet does not exceed the applicable fleet average CO₂ emission standard calculated in accordance with section 22 for the useful life of the vehicles of that fleet.

• Marginal note:Offsetting deficit

  (2) When a company incurs a deficit based on the calculation referred to in subsection (1), it must offset the deficit by using the CO₂ emission credits obtained in accordance with sections 34 to 47 for the averaging set in which the fleet is included.