Van Miert warns of six year cabotage delay
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• EC transport ministers are no closer to reaching agreement on allowing hauliers to trade freely in Europe, following a meeting in Brussels last week.
EC Transport Commissioner Karel van Miert says full cabotage could take another six years to achieve.
The Germans, whose hauliers face high road taxes, and the French led the opposition to a road transport free-for-all. Bi there are hopes that at the next meeting in June, ministei will reach a compromise for limited form of cabotage from January next year. This wou: allow a British operator to can goods from Munich to Frankfu: in the course of a round trip fro' Birmingham to Munich.
Ministers know that if the do not take action the EC Court of Justice could it for them. The Euro jta ges could order the tot liberalisation of the tran port market to achiel the freedom of senrict laid down in the Treai of Rome.
Coach operators rui fling non-regular servict abroad have been give the right to operate tou: at the other end from January 1993.