mcho regs go-ahead Kpected for autumn
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GOVERNMENT expects the ean tachograph regulations to be the autumn.
5 forecast was given in the Cornlast week by Parliamentary Secreor Transport Kenneth Clarke, who hat the Minister would be seeing entative bodies during the next few ulations would be laid as soon as insultations were completed, which epartment expected to be in the m. But it was too early to give a te timetable.
lour MP Stanley Crowther (Rotherasked the Minister to give the Commons an idea of one benefit to this country that would accrue from the introduction of "this very expensive piece of bureaucratic big-brotherism".
What penalty would Britain incur if we said that we wanted nothing to do with this nonsense, and that we should continue to operate our own system?
Mr Clarke expressed surprise that Mr Crowther took that view. He recalled that the Labour Government had accepted that we were bound by the decision of the European Court, and he noted that the consultations were about how we implemented the tachograph, not whether we did so.