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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8615

31 December 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 23
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
Austria prepares national measures to get round European ecopoints compromise

Brussels, 30/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - Austrian transport minister Hubert Gorbach said on Monday that he was preparing a series of measures to reduce road transport and pollution in the Austrian Alps and counteract the impact of the European compromise over the ecopoints (see Europe of 23 December, p.5). There is no point installing a monitoring system for lorries costing EUR 9 million without cutting traffic and pollution, said Gorbach, hoping that the European Commission would agree to...

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