ECJ – DRIVING DISQUALIFICATION
May 1st, 2004
BY ALAN OSBORNPAN-EUROPEAN fleet managers and road transport companies will have to closely monitor disqualification histories of their drivers, because of their newly confirmed legal right to secure licences in other European Union (EU) countries after being banned in their home state.This has been made clear in a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) which said that existing EU laws "may not be used by a member state as a basis for refusing indefinitely to recognise, in relation to a person who has been the object in its territory of a measure ...
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