The European Commission was "shocked" at the revelation that German carmakers had financed diesel exhaust experiments on animals and humans, EU industry commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska said... 

However, MEPs also asked the commissioner to do more than condemn the car industry... referr[ing] to the millions of diesel cars, designed to only be fully clean during official tests, still driving on European roads... [T]he real scandal was that these cars were still allowed to be on the road...

Last year, the commission triggered its enforcement tool known as the infringement procedure, telling the responsible EU member states to slap fines on cheating carmakers.

Bienkowska said on Monday that the commission was still analysing responses by member states, which included Germany and the UK, but that she was prepared to take the next step in the procedure, which could end up in the Court of Justice of the EU.