New car registrations in the EU increased 14.6% in June compared to 2014, marking the largest monthly increase since December 2009.
ACEA has revised its full year car sales growth forecast to 5%, considering that over the first five months of 2015 the year-on-year growth was 6.8%.
The European Commission has announced that it intends to initiate a "legally binding solution", which could take the form of a new sector-specific regulation, to improve relations between franchised dealers and manufacturers, unless an acceptable industry code of good conduct can be agreed between the two parties.