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• UNDER FIRE over the questi of customs checks on fuel tan the newly re-elected West G man administration h promised to try to end practice by the summer.
The German system of allc ing only 50 litres to be " ported" free of duty in the ta of goods vehicles (100 litres coaches) has proved a sourc( embarrassment to Bonn a time when Germany holds presidency of the Common N ket.
There were fresh criticism: the March session of European Parliament in St bourg, where British MEP A ander Sherlock (Conservat Essex South-West) referred "this nonsensical abstractor ridiculously small amounts money."
He also spoke about the fr tration and delay caused at I ders. West German Fore Minister Hans-Dietrich G scher, facing a barrage of lir tions in his capacity as Presic of the Council of Ministers, it was hoped to resolve the qi tion during the German pr dency of the EEC, which is du end on June 30.
Dutch MEP Elise Boot pair out that of the ten merr states of the EEC, only Germ and France impose fuel tank trictions.
Germany's restrictions on Common Market partners v all the more baffling in the I of a decision by Bonn to a lorries from East German duty-free fuel tank ailowanc 600 litres.
An EEC Commission prop to raise the minimum limi 200 litres was blocked by ihi titude of the Bonn Trans Ministry which used the r sure to give North German p an advantage over Rotterdar