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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8015

27 July 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
Commission decides not to reduce ecopoints due to doubts over validity of Austrian statistics

Brussels, 26/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the European Commission decided not to reduce the number of road transit rights through Austria, ecopoints, and to liberate the rights that have been blocked since March of this year. Austria had presented statistics in April demonstrating that 1,696,794 transit trips had been made by heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) on its territory in 2000, or an increase of 108% in relation to the reference year (1991) set by Austria's Accession Protocol to...

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