According to "Bündnis LSVA für Europa", inadequate use will continue to be made of pricing policy to establish steering instruments for lorry traffic, and the rules for differentiating between urban and non-urban routes to calculate external costs are incompatible with the Alpine Convention. But they also see positive signals insofar as road use charges can now be doubled for air and noise pollution in sensitive mountain areas.
Sources and information: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/greening (en/de/fr/it/sl), http://www.go-lienz-osttirol.net/lsva/kurz
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