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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7708

3 May 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/road transport
Commission to give view next week on draft compromise for reducing transit through Austria by using Ecopoint system

Brussels, 02/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 10 May, the European Commission is expected to approve a draft regulation aimed at resolving the problem of increasing road traffic through Austria, by using the ecopoint system. This system was set in place in order to stabilise transit across Austria, by using transit permits attributed not according to the number of heavy vehicles but according to the amount of pollution they cause. The problem in Austria is that the reduction of the...

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