The first draft compromise from the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU on revision of Directive 92/106/EEC, dated Tuesday 16 October, relating to the combined transport of goods between member states – and of which EUROPE has a copy – does not foresee returning to the cabotage exemptions in combined international transport, as Vienna prefers to wait for the outcome of negotiations on the first “mobility” package.
The question of cabotage exemption is a sensitive point of...