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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7808

28 September 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 27 / 55
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Brenner toll system in Austria is discriminatory and out of proportion to cost of building motorway

Luxembourg, 27/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice considered that tolls levied by Austria on the Brenner motorway in Tyrol are discriminatory and contrary to the Community directive on goods transport by road.

In its judgement this week, the Court notes that the toll rate per kilometre charged on the motorway is higher when the lorries make a "full itinerary" (between Innsbruck East or West and the Italian border) than when lorries make a "partial itinerary"....

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