EU RULES ON DISQUALIFIED DRIVERS TO COVER BULGARIANS, ROMANIANS
May 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to extend to new EU member states Bulgarian and Romania a convention that would effectively prevent these countries' lorry drivers from working in the rest of the EU, if they receive driving bans while working outside their home countries. The EU's 1998 Convention on Driving Disqualifications is designed to ensure that drivers from all member states lose their licence if they break enough motoring laws within a foreign EU country. It says the government where a driving ban was ordered should contact ...
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