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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8015

27 July 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
Commission allocates 7.5 million euro of PACT programme to 17 inter-modal transport promotion projects

Brussels, 26/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European commission has allocated the last batch of aid from the PACT programme for the promotion of inter-modal transport to 17 projects, for a total of 7.5 million euro. The PACT programme ends on 31 December 2001 and will be replaced by the "Marco Polo" programme being prepared in the Commission. "The Commission now intends granting even greater priority to concrete measures aimed at transferring transport by truck to other modes of transport",...

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