Can Britain change EEC transport policy? asks PVOA
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• Several existing members of the Common Market are hoping that Britain's entry into the Community will bring a change of emphasis in transport policy. the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association claimed last week. The claim was contained in a letter to Mr John Peyton. Minister for Transport Industries, from Mr Denis Quin, director of the PVOA, following the publication of an exclusive interview with Mr Peyton in The Times of January 18.
Mr Quin reminded the Minister that the Association had supported Britain's entry into the EEC.
"Even so, we have viewed with great concern the impractical ideas on many transport matters promoted by the Commission; not least the drivers' hours regulations which you mentioned ."
"Like you, we believe that only as members of the Community can Britain really hope to alter the rules-, he continued. "Moreover, it seems to us it will be vital that the Directorate General for Transport should be one of those in which Britain is represented. You know even better than we do the relationship of transport to the whole economy and we are sure that we share with you a real concern that Britain should have a strong voice in the Transport Directorate", he said.
Mr Quin said that having expressed these views to the Minister, the Association should now let them be more widely known.