EC out of tune
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URO MPs have warned that they will opose any further increases in the commuity road haulage quota unless rapid rogress is made towards harmonisation nd implementation of labour rules within le EEC's transport industry.
For the past 15 years, the EEC has been forking in a haphazard way towards chieving common rules regarding working ours and other social provisions. But memer countries have been reluctant to coperate with Brussels and the information rovided on the implementation of the rules as been meagre.
The European MPs complained this ionth that they are being kept in the dark bout whether the laws are enforced. They laimed they are not being told the number OLVO has joined forces with le Swedish trading group Beijenvest, and the merger is aimed t increasing the market share of oth companies abroad and imroving Sweden's balance of ade.
Under the terms of the deal olvo has offered to pay almost 7 billion Swedish Kr (£166m) ir 90 per cent of Biejerinvest's ve million shares.
The new group will be known s Investment AB Volvo Beijer. of staff involved in checking and inspection work or the amount of the fines imposed.
In the railway sector no proposals have been tabled and discussions between workers and employers have been abandoned.
Now the MPs are pressing the EEC Commission to take a much tougher line on harmonisation. "This question has been swept under the table for years," complains a report by the Parliament's Transport Committee. "To continue this head-in-the sand approach to the social aspects of transport is both politically inadvisable and economically inconsistent."
The Parliament has no powers to black the 25 per cent increase in EEC authorisations which the Brussels Commission has proposed.