Brussels, 22/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - During presentation of the mechanisms for the Swiss levy on heavy vehicle traffic, on 21 September, at the Swiss Mission with the EU, the representative of the Federal Office for Spatial Development, Ulie Balmer, showed that the method chosen by Switzerland for calculating external costs reached results that are relatively close to those reached by other known methods (UNIT, OECD, PETS, etc.). Since 1 January 2001, Switzerland has gradually introduced a...