On Friday 25 August, the European Commission concluded that the Polish company Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A.(AWSA) was overcompensated for a change in Polish law on toll motorways and therefore ordered the company to pay back 895 million zloty, or around €210 million, to Poland.
In 2005, Poland revised a law on toll motorways to bring in an exemption for heavy goods vehicles with a valid vignette, thereby ending the double taxation of trucks on the territory. The measure allowed the Polish...