FRENCH transport minister Frederic Cuvillier and five
other EU transport ministers have urged the European Commission to tighten
cabotage regulations in road haulage to prevent unfair competition.
The letter to EC transport commissioner Siim Kallas called
for a clear framework to strengthen controls, improve existing legislation and
prevent regulations that undermine road haulage.
The five EU transport ministers co-signing the letter
were from Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland and Italy.
Mr Kallas backed down from an original proposal to
introduce a cabotage scheme without restrictions across the EU from 2014 which
he defined as restricted and against the spirit of European Single Market.
Present rules restrict truckers to a maximum of three
domestic transport operations within the 27 EU member states over a seven-day
period, immediately following an international operation. These would have been
lifted in 2014.
Mr Cuvillier's launch of a major conference spring 2014
will debate unfair competition from low-cost truckers from the Baltic and
Eastern European states competing in western EU and Scandinavian countries.
The debate held in Paris will focus on harmonisation of
EU regulations of truck driver employment with a focus on rest periods, the
duration of time spent behind the wheel, for example, as well as the conditions
governing the admission to the occupation of road haulage operator.
Source : HKSG.
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