Luxembourg, 21/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Justice has rejected Austria's appeal in the Ecopoints affair. European judges decided that the principle adopted by Austria according to which a journey can be counted as transit on the basis of the adjustment of ecotags when lorries enter Austria, has no place in Community provisions.
In 1996 the Commission set up an electronic control system based on the "ecotag" system which was installed in vehicles and enabled an automatic counting...