GREEK GOVERNMENT CAN RESTRICT NON-GREEK EU HAULIERS FROM COMPLETE COMBINED TRANSPORT TRIPS: ECJ
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESTRICTIONS on the rights of non-Greek European Union (EU) hauliers to freely deliver cargoes on the last road-leg of a combined transport shipment to Greece have been declared legal by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Its ruled Greek police were right in preventing an Austrian haulier choosing the railhead closest to his Greek customer to offload and deliver ordered goods. The European Commission argued this was an illegal restriction of trade, discriminating against non-Greek EU hauliers, but the ECJ has backed Athens, which cited ...
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