T&E

Lorry Ban

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:00:00 CET

Austria wants to ban lorries carrying certain goods from a 12km stretch of the Inn Valley motorway to improve air quality, but the Commission has said this would break EU rules.

Market based instruments (MBIs) in EU transport and environment policy

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:09:40 CET

Response to the public consultation of the European Commission on the Green Paper on market-based instruments for environment and related policy purposes.

T&E's priorities for the 2007 Portuguese presidency of the EU

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:10:51 CET

T&E's priorities for the 2007 Portuguese presidency of the EU

MEPs ask Commission for overall transport CO2 reduction target

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:00:00 CET

Europe should have a target of reducing overall carbon dioxide emissions from the transport sector by 20% between 1990 and 2020.

Monster Vote

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:00:00 CET

MEPs have voted twice to restrict the possibilities for 25-metre lorries (variously called �monster trucks�, �modular trucks�, �gigaliners�, and other names) to use EU roads.

Energy strategy seeks more use of economic instruments

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:00:00 CET

EU transport and energy ministers have called for �more active use of economic instruments� to encourage people to buy more fuel-efficient cars.

T&E welcomes five new members

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:00:00 CET

T&E welcomed five new member organisations at its AGM on Saturday 26 March. The Czech Transport Federation, Danish
Society for Nature Conservation, Focus Association for Sustainable Development, Slovenia and Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland joined as full members and Movimento Consumatori, Italy as associate member. T&E now has 49 members in 21 countries.

Happy birthday! But now let�s look forward, not back

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:00:00 CET

Editorial by Jos Dings

Happy Birthday, EU! It was 50 years ago this month that the European Economic Community was founded, and given the background
against which it began, it has been a great success. It�s hard to imagine now, but it was only 12 years after the end of the second major
war in 30 years, a war that had left Europe in tatters. The EU has been a tremendous success in getting people to the table rather than
the battlefield to sort out their differences.

EEA says changes to common transport policy are going in the wrong direction

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:00:00 CET

The European Environmental Agency has sharply criticised the proposed shift in the EU�s Common Transport Policy away from managing demand and onto transport�s environmental impacts.

EU environment ministers' debate on aviation and car emissions - T&E reaction

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:30:00 CET

Environment ministers this afternoon debated two key proposals to reduce the impact of transport on climate change.

On aviation they fell short of taking the decisive action needed according to T&E.