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

In adopting the report by Mr Mark KILLILEA (UPE, Irl), Parliament approved, with amendments, the proposal laying down the conditions under which non-resident carriers may operate national road-transport services within a Member State. Parliament proposed inter alia: - that cabotage passenger transport service operators should have a representative on the territory of the Member State in which the services are provided, whom users could contact if necessary; - that until such time as the Council adopts a regulation on the contracting of transport services on the basis of public service obligations, regular urban, suburban and regional services should not be covered by the Regulation; - that other regular services should be excluded in areas in which services have been put out to tender under EU tendering procedures, or are to be put out to tender by the year 2000; - the deletion of Article 4 of the Regulation laying down special authorization arrangements for non-resident undertakings which offer intra-Community services, since it would discriminate against carriers already established in the host Member State. �