Quota is best: RHA
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THE ROAD HAULAGE Association has gone back on itself and con out in favour of the EEC quota, system instead of a free mark system.
Speaking after the rejection of the quota system by the Lords Select Committee on the European Communities, the RHA said that EEC bi-lateral quotas should be used to "maintain a degree of order and to prevent the international movement of road freight descending into chaos."
The RHA said that its view was supported by a report by the EEC Economic and Social Committee which stated that a market eco nomy did not mean that marl forces had to be given a free rE and nor could they be expect to solve all the problems on tn. own. The committee therefc called for legal curbs on "ci throat" private enterpri hauliers.
The RHA agreed with t Lords Committee's findings the need to maintain prof( sional and social standards the industry, and that this cot. be done best by direct regulati and by restricting internatior work to properly qualifii operators.
However, the RHA said if enforcement needed to I tighter, particularly with Certi cates of Professional Comr tence and Operators' Licences.