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"The 700 000 or so lorries that drive through Slovenia into Italy every year, must, on crossing the border, use the special lanes through the Italian customs posts at the cities of Trieste and Gorizia. Although lorries in transit travel unladen and require no customs services, they have to use the same special lanes as they did prior to Slovenia’s accession to the European Union, and have to pay a road toll. If they do not pay the toll, they are stopped and prevented from continuing their journey.
I suspect that the underlying reason for the use of this system in Italy is that following Slovenia’s accession to the EU, the volume of customs services in connection with transit goods haulage has been halved. The unjustified charging of a road toll is the financial compensation. Yet this medieval-type tax seriously violates the principle of free flow of goods and persons within the EU and constitutes an inadmissible precedent."@en1
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