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"FRONTAL ATTACK" to eliminate the tiresome Customs rmalities that cause long queues of lorries at the EEC's ernal frontiers is proposed in a report to the European rliament, writes our Brussels correspondent.
The report, which has been opted by the Parliamentary onomic and Monetary Affairs smmittee, complains that deite the abolition of Customs Ities, goods are not being insported freely across rope.
The duties have been placed, says the report, by inumerable fiscal provisions d transport controls together th rules relating to standards, itistics and currency''.
Delays of up to eight days ,ve been reported because E countries do not recognise terinary or health certificates iued by other EEC members. The Euro Parliament's report commends a short-term proamme to end one of the bugbears of an international driver's life: the need to pay vat on imports in cash at the frontier.
Instead, payments should be included in the normal accounting procedures by the firms involved, the report proposes.
Frontier checks designed to eliminate fraud could be made on motorways at the same time that spot checks are made on tachographs.
Similarly, the collection of statistical data at frontiers could be abolished and the information obtained directly from firms, banks, wholesalers, and the like.
The report suggests drawing up a timetable to abolish all technical obstacles at frontiers within six years, and MPs will debate the report when they return from the summer recess.