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EEC abolishes haulage permits
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• Europe's transport ministers finally voted to scrap international road haulage permits this week and bring full and proper cabotage onto our streets.
All inter-EEC road haulage permit quotas will be scrapped in 1993 and replaced with "Community Licences" as part of a plan which "lays the foundations for a real European Community in road transport . . . with a more rational road haulage industry free to develop," says European Transport Commissioner Stanley Clinton Davis.
Community, bilateral and transit quotas will end on 1 January 1993. The number of quotas will rise by 40% this year and next, after which Ministers will decide on a 1990 quota and on measures to be taken in a crisis.
Clinton Davis, however, warns that the Commission will take moves to prevent "unbridled deregulation".
Criteria will be laid down to ensure that hauliers are professionally sound, that drivers respect working hours and rest period regulations, and that lorries are properly maintained and run, right across Europe. Only those hauliers who make the grade will get community licences.
The move gives the European haulage industry "time to plan for the moment in five years when the single market for road haulage will be created," says Clinton Davis. "From the beginning of 1992, the complex web of hi-lateral and discriminatory quota agreements between member states will disappear, to be replaced by genuine European policy" . . , and road haulage will be able to serve "the peripheral parts of the community better, making more efficient use of vehicle capacity."