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

The Council held an exploratory debate on the proposal for a regulation. At the end of this discussion the presidency established that there was a consensus for reinstating the repealed regulation as a minimum measure for market liberalisation. The Council asked the Permanent Representatives Committee, by way of a compromise solution, to investigate the possibility of deregulating cabotage transport for regular international services, which was to be added to the relevant safeguard clauses, in order to enable the Council, in the light of Parliament’s opinion, to adopt a common position on this matter at its meeting in December.