EEC to alter rates?
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IPEAN MPs have added their support to moves by the EEC nission aimed at changing the current system of fixed tarriffs id transport within the Common Market, writes our Brussels spondent report by the European iament's Transport nittee has recommended n the long run EEC haulage should be decided by free et forces as in Britain.
en Britain joined the EEC, ,riginal six members were king on a system of lulsory tariffs which had laid down in 1968.
$ was not acceptable to the new members and in 1977 s agreed that governments I choose between the two ; of tariffs.
e report, written by John shall, (MEP for London 1), says the compulsory s have led, in numerous 5, to haulage rates being fixed at an unrealistically high level and the consequent use by operators of special contracts.
A separate report by the Parliament's economic and monetary committee points out that compulsory tariffs require an expensive monitoring system, whose high cost is reflected in haulage rates.
The report claims that in Cologne alone there are more than 300 civil servants checking on the rates being charged by haulage firms.
The EEC Commission is also in favour of letting market forces decide and it has proposed that this system should be generally adopted in the EEC.
But as a compromise it has proposed that two or more member states may agree to introduce minimum rates for specific operations and tonnages over a limited period.