OPENING PORTUGAL MOTOR INSPECTION UNITS IS TOO TOUGH SAYS BRUSSELS
March 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LEGAL restrictions that are limiting the availability of motor vehicle inspection centres in Portugal are to be challenged at the European Court of Justice, which may order that they be removed. The European Commission thinks the Portuguese government is breaking European Union freedom of trade restrictions by maintaining the rules, maybe preventing the operation of a sufficient number of inspection centres. Brussels is concerned that government regulators must deem a new inspection centre to be "in the public interest", that operators ...
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