Admission of non-resident carriers to national road passenger transport services

The rapporteur stated that the common position represented an improvement on the previous legislation. However, Parliament should encourage further progress in this area. This was why only two amendments had been re-tabled at second reading: they stated that Parliament should remain vigilant with regard to cabotage and passenger transport in the Union, in terms of the free movement of people and the freedom of establishment in the internal market. Commissioner Kinnock said that the Commission could accept a redrafted version of Amendment No 1 and the part of Amendment No 2 that dealt with the report on the application of Regulation No 2454/92 which would be presented the following year. On the other hand, it could not accept the amendment of Mr Grosch (EPP, BE) as the exclusion of regional bus services from the amended regulation would be a backward step from the progress already achieved.