AUSTRIA ECOPOINTS ALLOCATION ALPINE CROSSINGS ECJ CASE
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRIAN government has failed at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to secure an abolition of the current ecopoints system that Vienna claims insufficiently controls the movement of lorries across its Alpine passes. Austria argued that this issuing of pollution-based permits to hauliers broke the European Union (EU) legal principle of 'proportionality', which requires that laws must be "both adequate and necessary for attaining the objective concerned". In this instance, claimed Austria, "the points system established by ...
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