ROAD TRANSPORT : COMMISSION: HEAVY VEHICLE BAN IN THE TYROL IS DISPROPORTIONATE.
Europe Environment, September, 2007
Austria has been asked by the European Commission to drop its prohibition of heavy vehicles in a valley in the Tyrol (the Inn) to fight against air pollution. The European Commission issued a formal opinion on the ban, which relates to a 12 kilometres-long section on the A12 motorway that applies to trucks transporting certain goods (cereals and aggregates) whatever their level of emissions, on July 23. A similar official demand was made in 2003 and had been supported by the EU Court of Justice in a judgement of November 2005 (C-320/03 Business). At the time, the Court had recognised that environmental reasons could justify the banning of the free movement of goods, but that they should be proportionate. The Commission has made the same argument in its latest opinion...
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