According to a Reuters report, legal action was initiated by the European Union (EU) on Thursday against seven member countries for their failure to act adequately on diesel emission after Volkswagen (VW)’s diesel emissions-cheating scandal.

The member seven countries that have been taken to task by the EU for allegedly insufficient oversight of the emissions-testing process for new vehicles are: Germany, the U.K., Spain, Luxembourg, Greece, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic.

As per the report, the EU has accused regulators in the seven mentioned countries of failing to monitor diesel emissions testing in an adequate manner, after the VW diesel emissions scandal which came to light in September 2015.

The EU’s decision to begin legal action against the seven countries is a response to what EU officials reportedly consider as the governments’ collusion with the auto industry.

Towards that end, the European Commission said that adequate penalties were not imposed by the seven countries to prevent any potential future emissions cheating similar to VW’s use of illegal "defeat device" software in its diesel cars. The Commission also said that some of the countries had failed to disclose the details of mistrustful findings of their own national probes into emissions cheating.