Brussels, 12/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Adopting on Thursday the report by German Social Democrat Ulrich Stockmann on the draft directive on intermodal loading units (codecision, first reading), the European Parliament agreed that such containers had to made safer and more easily transferable from one mode of transport to another (see EUROPE of 12 April). MEPs amended various measures of the directive since they would increase costs and therefore negatively impact EU trade. It believes, for...