On Thursday 1 February during a meeting of the European Parliament transport committee, MEPs expressed their concerns about cabotage and the Commission proposal in this regard for revising directive 92/106/EEC. This directive establishes, “common rules for certain types of combined transport of goods between member states” and was presented on 8 November last as part of the second "mobility" package (see EUROPE 11900).
Although the proposal was greeted with relative optimism by the...