Brussels, 07/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - In its adoption, during last week's plenary session, of the opinion by Jan Simons (President of the Dutch transport committee, VNO) on "Changes to the directive on the taxation of heavy goods vehicles" (109 votes in favour, 82 against and 7 abstentions), the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has welcomed the Commission's initiative, despite finding it overly ambitious. It feels that the single proposed modification to directive 1999/62/EC...