Brussels, 22/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Council adopted formally on Thursday evening the regulation modifying the breakdown of ecopoints for road transit through Austria (see yesterday's EUROPE, page 9). Austria cast a dissenting vote but allowed the decision to be taken via the written procedure (which it could have prevented had it wished to throw a wrench in the workings of the institutions). Belgium abstained.
To compensate for the increase in traffic recorded in 1999 in Austria, the...