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Rodgers and the busybodies

29th July 1977, Page 7
29th July 1977
Page 7
Page 7, 29th July 1977 — Rodgers and the busybodies
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TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers last week rejected a call to tell "the bureaucratic busybodies in Brussels" that we were perfectly happy to have a national policy on drivers' hours and distances, except perhaps when crossing frontiers.

He told anti-Common Market MP, Neil Marten (Tory, Banbury), that it was not only the bureaucratic busybodies who were involved. Our eight partners in the EEC saw advantages in the legislation on drivers' hours which we had not so clearly seen.

Members of the Community had an interest in settlement, added Mr Rodgers, and he was still hopeful that there would be a negotiated package, which would be to the advantage of everyone.

John Evans (Labour, Newton) noted that, if the new Regulation did not come into force this year, the 1969 Regulation automatically operated from January 1.

This, he recalled, laid down a maximum of 280 miles or 450 kilometres, and that a driver could drive for only eight hours within any 24-hour period.

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Organisations: Common Market MP, Community
Locations: Brussels

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