Brussels, 21/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is proposing to extend until December 2003 the "ecopoint" system for road goods transit through Austria, and to revise the clause of the protocol for Austria's accession to the EU, which provides for automatic reduction of ecopoints when the road transit traffic exceeds that recorded in 1991 by 8% (so called "108% clause").
The proposal of regulation is accompanies by a particularly critical report on the way the system works....