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LE GOVERNMENT plans make liberalisation of road lige a major priority in Common Market, Transt Secretary Nicholas Ridtold the Freight Transport .ociation's national confere in London this week.
Lidley told the ETA that the vernment was keeping up the pressure to persuade other EEC countries to agree to the full liberalisation of longdistance coaching and international road haulage.
The Government's case had been reinforced by the European Court of justice ruling in May that the Council of Ministers was breaking the
Treaty of Rome in failing to implement the freedom to provide transport services.
The effective demand by the court for the abolition of bilateral quotas and permits would cause the UK no problems, he told the conference.