ROAD CHARGING – EP
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has weakened a draft obligation on European Union (EU) governments to spend money raised from harmonised road charging systems on maintaining roads. In amendments to the proposed directive on the topic, MEPs deleted an insistence that "revenue from fees must be used for maintenance of the road infrastructure and for the benefit of the transport sector." Instead the parliament - in its last full sitting before June's European elections - voted in a general commitment for governments to "efforts to reduce congestion and ...
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