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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9838

12 February 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/transport
Committee on transport rejects contribution to climate change as criterion for taxation of heavy goods vehicles

Brussels, 11/02/2009 (Agence Europe)- On Wednesday 11 February, the committee on transport of the European Parliament adopted, at first reading and by a large majority of votes, the report by Saïd El Khadraoui (PES, Belgium) on the revised proposed directive on the taxation of heavy goods vehicles (Eurovignette II), which aims to allow certain external costs of transport to be internalised. The vote supports the broad outlines of the initial proposal of the European Commission, but makes...

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