Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposal COM (2013) 195: Discussion with Haulage and Transport Associations
10:00 am
Mr. Jerry Kiersey:
They would be legal here. They are legal in both jurisdictions. In the Nordic countries the lorries are currently legal in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, and those countries all have bilateral agreements in place whereby these trucks can travel between those countries. If Jörge Leichtfried gets his way on this report - this is because of what Commissioner Siim Kallas has done according to Jörge Leichtfried - those lorries will have to stop at the borders discharge their cargos and load them onto other lorries. They will not be allowed to travel across borders even if there are bilateral agreements in place between those countries.
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