ECJ CAR REGISTRATION CASE
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA RULING on car registration legislation at the European Court of Justice could remove red tape demands on European fleet managers whose companies' employ workers living in more than one European Union country. Judges have stated national governments cannot insist a worker's company car be registered in their home country, rather than where a company and its fleet management is based. The case involved a Belgian national Hans Van Lent who worked in neighbouring Luxembourg. He was accused of breaking Belgian criminal law by driving a company car ...
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