EEC HAULAGE
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RIGS ATTACK , COMMON MARKET committee has attacked proposals put )rward by the European Commission on the harmonisation and beralisation of road haulage.
The Economic and Social Committee, at a meeting last week, ejected three Commission plans.
The first was a proposal for the setting up of common rules for !ertain types of carriage of goods by road between member tes.
Until further progress had been made towards aligning terms )f competition, the Committee felt that further liberalisation of ross-frontier haulage would create inbalances and put some egions at a disadvantage. This also applied to competition letween hire and reward carriers as well as own-account.
The second rejected proposal was for a system of reference ariffs for cross-frontier haulage. The Committee said that the iew system would create a vast bureaucratic machine which vould not have any positive effect on the actual determination rates.
Lastly, the proposal for a system of observing the markets for Toss-frontier haulage was criticised as not in accordance with he real facts and no substitute for effective crisis management.