French carmaker Renault will recall more than 15,000 vehicles to make sure their engines are in line with emissions standards. The cars will be recalled before they go on sale, Ségolène Royal, France"s minister of ecology, told RTL radio Tuesday morning. Royal said the company committed to the recall in order to test the car engines and filtration systems to make sure they adhere to emissions standards in all temperatures.

The announcement comes after French fraud investigators raided Renault"s headquarters and two other sites near Paris earlier this month, as part of a probe into its emissions technology. French authorities launched an investigation into Volkswagen in September, following revelations that the German carmaker had installed software that allowed its vehicles to cheat on US emissions tests. Investigators said they would expand the probe to include other carmakers, and later discovered discrepancies between real-world engine tests and lab results for four Renault models, the company announced earlier this month