Common rules for international carriage by coach and bus (amend. Regulation (EEC) No 684/92)

The rapporteur had re-tabled the amendments on the need to subordinate access to the market for drivers and vehicles to compliance with the legal requirements on social benefits and road safety. Mr Killilea also insisted that the Commission should submit, before December 1999, a new draft regulation extending the scope of the current proposal. Commissioner Kinnock said that legislation on driving and rest time had already been provided for in the existing text and that, as a result, Amendments Nos 1 and 2 could not be accepted. Likewise, Amendment No 3 could not be accepted as it would not be possible to consider further regulation before the end of 1998 given that the current amendment of Regulation No 684/92 would be adopted only the following October and would only enter into force twelve months after its adoption.