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;ECURING AGREEMENT on 1 :Airopean Union legislation creatng a pan-European tolling
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system or all trucks over 3.5 tonnes will be he top transport priority for the AT's new Luxembourg presidency.
Talking to Brussels newswire EAJPolitix, Lucien Lux expressed !onfidence that agreement could )e secured at the EU Council of Vlinisters for Transport in April.
He described the governments as 'very close to compromise" and uggested that, as a small country _uxembourg was "in a very good teutral position to make progress".
Lux added that the proposal vould "be at the top of our igenda" and promised to travel ound Europe to secure a deal.
This might still be difficult given that last year's Irish and Dutch presidencies both tried and failed to find a consensus over whether the proposed Eurovignette Directive should earmark tolls for transport spending, or he free of strings.
Some countries on the geographical fringes of Europe. such as Spain and Italy, want tolls paid by their hauliers in central Europe to be spent on roads — a position opposed by Britain, France and Germany.
• The European Parliament's transport committee is pushing for a firm 10-year deadline for introducing plastic driving licences across the European Union, with amendments passed on 20 January hacking legislation harmonising licence design.