Q In a recent issue of CM you announced a new
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agreement with East and West Germany to permit British vehicles to cross into the Eastern bloc. You referred to this as involving permitfree concessions from West Germany, so does this mean that I no longer need to obtain a haulage permit at all if my traffic is on its way to or through East Germany ?
A No, the system is not quite so simple as that. Under the new agreement, you do not need to obtain a permit from the general quota of haulage permits for West Germany, but you will require one of the special transit permits from a West German subsidiary quota which is being provided for the new scheme. One of these special permits will be made available for transit through West Germany so long as your vehicle enters at Breman, Bremerhaven or Hamburg and then continues, to enter East Germany at one of two special crossing points.
Details of these points and other aspects of the scheme are set out in the DoE leaflet called A new quota-free route to East Europe and Middle East obtainable free of charge from the International Road Freight Office, 36/42 Low Friar Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. There was a delay in obtaining supplies of these leaflets when they were first announced, but we understand that copies are now in stock at Newcastle.