EC will cut Alpine permits
8th June 2000, Page 11
8th June 2000
Page 11
Page 11, 8th June 2000
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• The European Commission (EC) wants to cut truck journeys across the Alpine passes in Austria in a bid to cut pollution.
It wants to reduce the number of ecopoints (truck permits) available to each member state, because commercial traffic is running above a predetermined threshold based on assumed traffic growth.
Once this threshold is triggered, the EC is obliged to rec
ommend a cut in available ecopoints for member states; this also happened last year.