28/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - MEP Gilles Savary (PES, France) has started a petition among local elected representatives in France against the draft Regulation on opening local transport up to "regulated competition", which was published by the European Commission in July 2000 (see EUROPE of 27 July, p. 6). The petition has so far been signed by 500 "French plural left" representatives. It criticises the obligation on all local communities to put all public passenger transport (trams, buses,...