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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7887

24 January 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 60
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eptransport
EP confirms that it wants directive on level of alcohol content behind wheel

Strasbourg, 23/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - By adopting the report by Swedish Socialist Ewa Hedkvist Petersen on road safety, the EP considered that the European Commission's "recommendation" that Member States set the level of alcohol allowed behind the wheel at 0.5 mg/ml not to be sufficient, and that there ought to be binding legislation (the Commission presented this recommendation on 18 January: see EUROPE of 19 January, p.10). In a paragraph of the resolution adopted by 264 in favour, 215...

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