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Arlington, May 09, 2008
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IRU members again take the lead in reducing CO2 emissions
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The American Trucking Associations (ATA) have taken a proactive initiative to ensure that the trucking industry is as clean and green as possible. Through its new sustainability programme, which gives guidance to integrate sustainable practices into business models, the US trucking industry aims to reduce fuel consumption and thus the carbon footprint of all its vehicles by nearly a billion tons over the next ten years.
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St Petersburg, April 30, 2008
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Enforcement of regulations, controls and sanctions must be harmonised
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The 7th Symposium of Lawyers, Members of the IRU Legal Assistance Network today gathered lawyers and road transport representatives from 25 countries to explore the diversity of controls and sanctions in the road transport of goods. The Symposium concluded that the harmonised implementation of a simple and transparent regulatory framework is a prerequisite to achieve a better understanding and more efficient enforcement of the rules applying to road transport. To attain this goal, priority must be given to simplifying, clarifying and above all improving the enforcement of existing rules rather than creating new ones.
A Resolution to this effect was adopted by participants to the Symposium and will be submitted to the IRU’s competent bodies for ratification during the 31st IRU World Congress on 15-16 May 2008, in Istanbul.
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Brussels, April 30, 2008
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Lifting Austrian traffic bans: a good starting point to balance economic growth with sustainable development!
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The Austrian A12 goods vehicle ban as of 1 May 2008 provides a useful lesson for EU Transport Ministers to rebalance the EU environmental policy with the Lisbon Agenda requirements.
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St Petersburg, April 29, 2008
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CAJ President and Vice President reappointed
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The IRU Commission on Legal Affairs (CAJ) today reappointed President Ms Isabelle Bon-Garcin from the IRU’s French Member Association for international Road Transport l’Association Française du Transport Routier International - AFTRI, for the 2008-2009 term of office. Francisco Sanchez-Gamborino, from the IRU’s Spanish Member Association, Associación del transporte internacional par carretera (ASTIC), was re-appointed Vice-President.
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CAJ President, Isabelle Bon-Garcin and Vice-President, Francisco Sanchez-Gamborino. |
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Geneva, April 28, 2008
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Obituary
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The IRU Secretariat General and the IRU members have the sad duty to inform of the death, on 26 April 2008, of Dr Winfried Röckmann, General Delegate of the IRU Permanent Delegation to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, from 1973 to 2003.
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Dr Winfried Röckmann, former IRU General Delegate to the European Union |
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