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PLAN to tackle the unfair competition which ,EC road haulage firms face from State-run mnsport undertakings in Eastern Europe is being repared in Brussels.
Practical proposals will be tabled before the end I the year, the Commission promised this month ) answer to an MP's written question.
The EEC estimates that about seven to 10 per ent of goods traded between Eastern and Western .urope are carried by road — and the volume is [sing rapidly. But only a small percentage of these oods are carried on lorries from the West.
Ninety per cent of goods carried by road betteen Germany and Russia, for example, go on astern Bloc vehicles. "The communist countries xercise considerable pressure to be allowed to etermine themselves the means and capacities of -ansport to be used," says an EEC report.
The report adds that an "extreme" solution rould be to restrict all transport between East and Vestern Europe to semi-trailers.
They would be towed by tractive unit to the ast-West border where the units could be exhanged.