Eurocrat lawyers slam foreign fines
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• EC lawyers are pressing for legal action over huge fines imposed on foreign drivers in some member countries.
Brussels lawyers have become involved following a complaint about the French police who demanded 21,000 in cash from a German coach driver for alleged illegal cabotage.
The driver had driven a party of German students to the town of St Amand Montond, which is twinned with Nottuln in West Germany. He picked up a party of Frenchmen and was taking them to Paris when he was stopped by police. The coach party had to raise 21,000, as a guarantee against payment of a fine, before being released.
LI The EC has warned that it will head off any attempts by member governments to ban foreign commercial vehicles because their spray-suppression equipment does not meet national requirements.
Brussels aims to introduce EC Type Approval for both major spray-suppression techniques — the energyabsorption mudflap of the type favoured in Britain (where fitting will be mandatory from 1 January 1990) and the alternative system designed to separate water from airflow.