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BY ALAN OSBORN
Motorists buying cars in a different EU country from their own will find it easier to get short-term insurance cover for the journey home under a proposed new directive announced by the European Commission today (Monday.) Brussels said this would help people buy cars wherever in the EU they could find the best value and help stimulate cross-border competition in the vehicle market.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
A CARMAKERS’ voluntary agreement on introducing technical changes in designs boosting cyclist and pedestrian safety has been approved by the European Parliament and will now be legally underpinned by a so-called Framework Directive enforcing a range of legal commitments.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved in principle changes to the EU’s seatbelt laws, that will insist every Member State passes laws obliging motorists and passengers to wear belts and children aged under 12 to wear special seat restraints.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
GERMANY is set to become the first European country to transpose the controversial EU End-of-Life Vehicle Directive (ELV), while Britain appears to be dragging its feet over implementation.

All 15 Member States failed to meet the ELV deadline of April 21, 2002, for introducing laws on the disposal and recycling of vehicles.…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA’S state oil company Petronas has signed a three-year deal with the Philippine National Oil Company to introduce its natural gas-powered Enviro 2000 cars to the Philippines. The first move involves a six-month field demonstration in Manila involving six units of the car.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England
FORD UK is backtracking on an earlier promise to fit digital radios to all its cars by 2004.

When contacted by just-auto.com, a spokeswoman for the company denied reports that the company had ever made a commitment to fit digital radios.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
Japan’s Nissan Motor Ltd has begun exporting vehicles from plants in Thailand to Indonesia as part of a plan to make the south-east Asian kingdom its main supplier of vehicles in the region. Nissan plans to take advantage of the fact that the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is lowering duties on locally made vehicles to increase shipments in the region of passenger cars and pickup trucks from Thailand, and commercial vehicles from Indonesia.…

MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA is calling for a review of plans to cut tariffs across south-east Asia, claiming that lower tariffs will affect its car production, particular the Proton series. The south-east Asian country has been given until 2005 to bring tariffs on imported cars down to between zero and five per cent, two years later than other key members of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA).…

BY MARK ROWE
Jokes about slow-moving Skodas have long gone out of date but more than 30 Singapore car buyers may disagree, – they are still waiting for delivery of their Czech cars nine months after they each paid US$9,000 for them.…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA’S state oil company Petronas has signed a three-year deal with the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) to introduce its natural gas-powered Enviro 2000 cars to the Philippines. Petronas and PNOC will initially embark on a six-month field demonstration in Manila involving six units of the Enviro 2000.…