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Cabotage is another area the government must focus on, arc Simpson. He says: The EU monisation of cabotage rules not helped the industry."
Simpson claims that "in current format, they don't cr a level playing field", and recognises there is a problem hauliers from eastern Europe go to the UK on cheaper sale having already paid for &lei fuel and taxes.
High standards of opera need to be consistent across Continent because some currently do not quite reach levels expected from other pa He says: "I want eastern Eu to come up to our standards like to see standardised tests. would professionalise the InciL because it currently suffers a lack of that," he adds.
He is also opposed to the monisation of cabotage rule the grounds that some comp will register in their own cour and operate abroad.
The problem is unlikely tc resolved in the foreseeable ft because ''other countries hay advantage So while the con tee will look at it, the commit will never agree to it," he says