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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7940

6 April 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport council
"Ecopoint" issue still in deadlock

Luxembourg, 05/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - The debate in the Transport Council in Luxembourg Thursday morning once again confirmed the deadlock over the road transit quota system in Austria, through "ecopoints". The European Commission confirmed that it wanted to abolish the clause of the protocol to Austria's accession that provides for the reduction in the number of available ecopoints, when transit exceeds by 8% in a given year the traffic recorded in 1991, the so-called "108% clause"....

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