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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8506

17 July 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
IRU requests postponement of road tax on heavy goods vehicles in Germany

Brussels, 16/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The IRU Own Account Transport Liaison Committee (IRU) is calling for the Transport Commissioner, Loyola de Palacio, to demand that the German government postpones the road tax on all heavy goods vehicles in Germany ("LKW Maut") this tax will apply to all heavy goods vehicles of more than tonnes and should enter into force on August In a press statement, the IRU believes that the system discriminates, due to the insufficient number of mechanisms for...

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