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THE ALLOCATION of r• haulage quotas for 1983 been condemned as a "polii compromise" by the EEC's • nomic and social committee.
The existing allocatior authorisations expired on cember 31 last year, and the I Commission had drawn up at native quotas which would h increased the total number authorisations from 4,038 4,227 (a rise of only 4.7 per cc An additional 15 permits wc have been available for the f peripheral member countries But the system used for allocation of quotas has "le( recent years to disagreemE within the Council."
The only solution had bee basically political comprom Attempts to find an accepta formula had led to a balanc act with neither the Commit nor the Council of Ministers h ing sufficient time to discuss methods and criteria, in detail The result had been a tem rary plan valid only for 1982 with immediate negotiatic planned to redesign the wh system used to allocate ann quotas.
Members of the Committee jected this stop-gap plan. would prefer to see the shc term quotas extended and a fir decision on 1983 quotas ma only after the new Commissi proposals had been examint The final decision now rests w the Council of Ministers.