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Recently, according to a report in the German business daily, EU antitrust regulators plan to formally file charges against BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen this spring, according to the complaint. EU regulators have colluded with automakers to make a series of detailed allegations about engine emissions. The charges are likely to lead to fines on carmakers.

According to the report, documents from Brunswick and the Munich district attorney's office show that automakers have cooperated on diesel emissions, and BMW and Daimler have reached an agreement not to disclose details of the cooperation to the authorities. But in 2014, Daimler submitted a report to the European Commission, and Volkswagen did so two years later.

The European Commission and Daimler declined to comment. BMW and Volkswagen declined to comment. Volkswagen said the group and its brands had fully cooperated with the European Commission and that the move would continue.

On September 18 last year, the European Commission began a formal investigation to determine whether German automakers such as BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen were colluding on emissions issues to avoid competition in technology research and development such as clean emissions. The European Commission said in a statement that it was investigating whether BMW and Volkswagen manufacturers agreed not to compete with each other in developing and launching emission reduction systems for gasoline and diesel vehicles.

The European Commission conducted a surprise inspection of the carmaker's headquarters in October 2017 as part of a preliminary investigation. The European Commission is particularly concerned about whether BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen manufacturers colluded to limit the development and launch of selective catalytic reduction systems and Otto particulate filters. Selective catalytic reduction system can reduce NOx emissions from diesel vehicles, so as to less pollute the air environment, while Otto particulate filter can reduce particulate emissions from gasoline vehicles and effectively reduce the concentration of PM2.5.

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