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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7984
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport

Commission proposes imposing provisions to limit speed on all lorries and buses

Brussels, 14/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is proposing to impose speed limiters on all lorries and cars of over 3.5 tonnes. Last week, it adopted a draft directive along these lines, to extend the scope of the 1992 legislation which imposed speed limiters on all lorries of over 12 tonnes, whose maximum speed is limited to 90 km/h, and to buses of over 10 tonnes, whose speed is limited to 100 km/h. It does not on the other hand plan to extend the directive to specific...

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