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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8303

23 September 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 31
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
Disagreement between Italians, Germans and Austrians over Austrian system of ecopoints persists

Brussels, 23/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - The exchange of views concerning the Austrian system of ecopoints for heavy goods traffic that was held within the European Parliament transport committee led to unanimity on two points: transit traffic in the Alps is an Alpine problem, not only Austrian, and that road transport had to be encouraged to move to rail. For the rest, the Italian and Austrian transport ministers stuck to their respective guns, and thus do not agree on how to resolve the...

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