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No 8-hour day for 5 years?
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UK asks EEC for transition period
• The Government has asked for a five-year transitional period before adopting the Common Market rules about the hours which drivers of goods and passenger vehicles may drive. This was announced in the House of Lords on Tuesday by Lord Mowbray and Stourton. In reply to a question by the Earl of Lauderdale, he said: "Discussions are in progress with the Community about the technical adaptations needed to apply their transport legislation to the United Kingdom, and the timing of its application. In particular, the UK has asked for a five-year transition period before adopting here the 8-hour driving day required by Regulation 543 /69.
"Entry into the Corndunity would entitle us to an allocation of permits under the Community quota for road haulage, over and above our existing rights under bilateral agreements concluded with member countries. The Community quota is experimental at present, ahd to be reviewed at latest by the end of 1972 in the light of experience. For this and other reasons, speculations about the ultimate size of the UK share would be premature and of little value.
"Estimates of the cost of applying the 8-hour driving day in this country can only be based oi ranges of assumptions and cannot, therefore, be firm. Its impact upon costs would be reduced if we obtained the transitional period requested."
Under the Common Market rules the daily limit is 8 hours, with a weekly limit of 48 hours and a fortnightly limit of 92 hours. In addition vehicles over 20 tons gross weight require a second driver after they have travelled 450 kilometres (about 280 miles) in one day. Goods vehicles of under 3+ tons gross weight, and passenger vehicles (buses and coaches) on journeys not exceeding 50 kilometres (about 30 miles) are exempt from these rules.