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28th March 1981, Page 21
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

LN EEC WORKING party has een appointed to examine -ontier delays in Europe and gill soon be submitting propoals for reducing the waiting ime.

One reason for eliminating 'order delays is the waste of reources caused by long queues if vehicles waiting with engines icking over. The Austrian Autonobile Association has calcuated that a tailback of three kilonetres results in the onsumption of an extra 18,000 Ares of fuel. On 13 Saturdays of he peak holiday period last ,ear, a total of 1.4m litres of fuel vas lost in this way at the eight najor crossing points between 3ermany and Austria.

The EEC Commission says here are two main problems to )e tackled. These are the pass)ort checks, which must be beter organised, and the large lumber of formalities. Many — iuch as health and quality :ontrol checks and the exam maion of taxation documents — :ould be simplified, it believes.