[ STEP TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM
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THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT, is to free certain classes of international road transport from licensing restrictions—if Parliament agrees.
This is a step towards carrying out the policy agreed by the Council of European Ministers of Transport in 1965 to liberalize traffic likely to cross and re-cross frontiers frequently.
Exempt soon Although the existence of the Channel limits movements across British frontiers, says the MoT, Great Britain is a member of the Council and, accordingly, the Minister has now laid before Parliament Regulations which exempt from the licensing requirements of the 1960 Road Traffic Act foreign goods vehicles brought temporarily into the country on international journeys for the purposes of:— • Transport of goods to and from airports in cases where air services are diverted.
• Post Office transport.
• Transport of damaged vehicles.
• Transport of animal carcases (not intended for human consumption) for disposal.
• Transport of bees or fish stock.
• Transport of dead persons. The new Regulations come into force on September 30.