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FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
THE Luxembourg Government has decided to introduce the publication of all
rates for hire-or-reward commercial transport_ As rail rates are already published, this decision will concern mainly road transport rates_ Virtually only non-Luxembourg firms are concerned in hire-or-reward road haulage in the Grand Duchy.
The others of the Common Market member countries—France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium and Holland—have been requested to present by the end of this month opinions on the recommendation of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community that measures should be taken by the six countries by the end of this year to publish rates for the road and inland waterway transport of coal and steel.
France and West Germany have already entered into discussions at government level on this question, while Belgium has declared its willingness to
join in the discussions. The Italian Government, hitherto opposed to all publication moves and still with Holland in a complaint to the six-country European Court regarding the High Authority recommendation, is now expected to agree to the recommendation if a longer introductory period is allowed.
Only Holland still remains adamant, although a recent letter from the Dutch Government to the High Authority indicates that Holland is prepared to negotiate " on the method in which responsibilities arising from the sixcountry agreement could be met."
Observers consider it possible that the Dutch might give way if really wide rate margins—totalling 30 per cent..
perhaps—are suggested, while Belgium, too, is reported to be interested in more freedom to move under any fixed tariffs. The need to bring in a transport rate standardization or similar ruling within the Benelux bloc by 1963 will force the hands of Holland and Belgium in this field.
At present the Dutch Government is continuing in its appeal against the High Authority recommendation to hinder the introduction of a general E,C.S.C. ruling covering rate publication such as would "go further than the contractual obligations."
As the European Coal and Steel Community is a direct sister body of the Common Market organization, all decisions concerning it also concern the Common Market almost directly.