°reign coaches on Iritish services?
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ERESTED organisations are currently being consulted by Department of Transport on a proposal to allow foreign ches from outside the EEC to enter Britain on regular ices.
on-EEC coaches are at rent in effect prohibited entering Britain on reguservices as they do not ply with our psv licensing iirements.
K requirements are ady waived for coaches ring Britain on closedr or outward laden and rn unladen services and ,EC-registered coaches on Liar services from an EEC Itry to Britain.
le proposed new regula3 will allow foreign registvehicles to operate into out of Britain on 7tnership"-type services as the Euroways London-Moscow service.
As authorised international services are almost invariably worked jointly by operators from the main countries served by the route, the regulations would only require the British operator to apply for the road service licence. He would then be expected to declare the operating arrangements of the foreign partners.
As the Department of Transport has received "fairly frequent" complaints about accidents, delays or unfortunate experiences on unauthorised services between London and Greece, and although there have been a number of successful prosecutions as the law now stands, it does not permit a prohibition to be placed on foreign vehicles operating unauthorised services to non-EEC countries.
The proposed new regulations will require foreign vehicles operating on regular services to carry on an authorisation. As failure to carry an authorisation would enable a prohibition to be placed on a vehicle under Section 4 of the Road Traffic (Foreign Vehicles) Act 1972, this should make enforcement easier.