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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8370

3 January 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport council
Political agreement on ecopoints despite opposition from Austria, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands - Commission confirms pledge to unveil Eurovignette proposal in first half of 2003

Brussels, 02/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - Another achievement for Denmark snatched on the final day of its presidency of the Council of the European Union, following an extraordinary Transport Council on 31 December 2002 looking at transport in the Alps, that barely lasted two hours - a political agreement on the Danish Presidency's compromise on a temporary extension from the end of 2003 to the end of 2006 (with fewer ecopoints) of the ecopoints system that aims to cut the number of lorries...

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