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NEITHER a common EEC trans competition conditions should UNICE, the European employers' In a memorandum to EEC Transport Ministers in conjunction with agricultural and trade groups, UNICE said that both objectives should be geared towards the general aims of the Treaty of Rome; neither should have an adverse effect on transport integration, they should foster the growth of productivity, and they should take account of other EEC common policies.
It also said that much European transport policy favours transport operators, most often to the detriment of users. "We consider that this is wrong in principle, since transport is connected with the marketing of goods and should therefore contribute to raising productivity all round."
UNICE added that the EEC Commission has said nothing to indicate whether anything might be done to end the differences in pricing systems for international haulage, and said that a common policy was being impeded by the present deadlock about national weights and dimensions laws.
It wants a liberal market port policy nor harmonisation of be regarded as an end in itself, organisation, has warned.
structure with provision for competition and a concern for productivity, with a single transport market following after the adoption of a single policy. And it wants the Commission to insist "firmly and relentlessly" that the Treaty of Rome be used to provide guidelines and definite limits for the operation of a transport policy.
This, it claims, would eliminate administrative barriers in transport, and structural bottlenecks, liberalise the price mechanism, permit the use of hired lorries, permit cabotage, simplify and improve administrative documents, and simplify the settlement of vat.
It does not want road haulage quotas to be decided according to either competition or the capacity of other transport modes, as that distorts the market, and arrangements for bilateral authorisations should not result in any reduction in the capacity of the haulage industry.
And, it has gone on to say that no moves to overhaul the quota system should be allowed to inhibit member states in their desire to liberalise further their haulage regimes.