Cyprus Transport Minister and 8 counterparts object to new rules of mobility package on commercial vehicles

Minister of Transport, Yiannis Karousos and his Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, Lithuanian, Maltese and Romanian counterparts, met Tuesday with the Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans and the Commissioner for Transport, Anna Ioana Valean, to raise the issue and implications of a new rule that calls for commercial transport vehicles, lorries and trucks operating within th single market, to return to the licensing Member State every eight weeks, included in the "EU mobility package", currently under negotiation.

The Minister of Transport said that he and his counterparts met with the EU Commissioner for Transport and Vice-President Timmermans, on the issue of the mobility package and the condition that has been added and provides "for a return of the vehicle every eight weeks to its base, which is unacceptable to us, for two main reasons".

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