Strasbourg, 05/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament approved with 303 votes for, 253 against and 18 abstentions, the European Commission's proposal providing for the suppression of the 108% clause in the ecopoints system that regulates road transit in Austria. The report by Austrian Social Democrat Hannes Swoboda, adopted by 28 to 26 in the transport committee, proposed that the Commission's project should be rejected (see EUROPE of 31 august, p.7).
Included in Austria's...