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ANOTHER 7,000 French permits will soon be available to British hauliers.
At a meeting in London at the end of last week officials of the French Ministry agreed with their British opposite numbers that the 1983 quota, which was fixed last autumn at 57,500, should be increased to 64,500. The Department of Transport will shortly announce arrangements for the distribution of the additional permits.
And in a bid to break the deadlock between the Common Market and the Yugoslavian authorities over transit charges imposed without warning by the government in Belgrade, EEC transport commissioner Georgios Kontogeorgis plans to challenge the charges on an official mission to Yugoslavia later this month.
MEPs who raised the subject during the September session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg were told that the transit charges would be just one of the questions raised during the two days of talks in Belgrade.