Monday, 03 MAY 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a study which suggests that the internalisation of the external costs of road transport would increase transport prices by between 2.7 and 8.6%.The Centrum für Europäische Politik (CEP) refutes this, however. In its view, the international road links used for the study do not correspond to the everyday reality of cross-border goods transportation within the Union. Also according to the CEP, the JRC study does not take short distances into account.
Finally, the CEP adjudges that “the estimated price rises for transport and finished products cannot be corroborated”.
TAGS : JRC, external_costs
