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"Mr President, Switzerland is trying to keep the heavy goods vehicles that pass through the country off the routes through the Alps, and to make those vehicles which do manage to pass through pay for rail improvements. Austria would probably like to do the same for north-south traffic, but membership of the European Union puts obstacles in the way of this. German and Italian road transport operators would prefer to have a free passage, as would the Dutch operators that are strongly represented in the sector. When Austria joined the European Union, a compromise was reached on a distribution arrangement. Since then, the country has been put under pressure to allow more and larger lorries through. As a result, anyone wanting to protect those living in the area and their environment against the air and noise pollution from large flows of lorries now has cause to mistrust the motives for each new arrangement. Because the solution that is now being proposed consists of a combination of quotas, bans and charges, the majority of my group will still give it the benefit of the doubt for 2004, but the problem cannot be solved without building a railway tunnel under the Brenner Pass."@en1
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