ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the efforts which have been undertaken with a view to regulating road transport including commercial transport and transport on own account. The system of permits and licences which exists in the various states of the European Economic Community no doubt represents an obstacle to the free exchange of services in road transport. The solution of the problem of permits for scheduled transport of goods and passengers becomes more difficult in view of the fact that it involves preferential treatment for the owner of such permit. This obviously proves that a suitable basis could only be created by means of a common transport policy and, as a corollary, a common policy of coordination. A gradual opening up of the home market could in the opinion only be effected by allotting a certain percentage of the national quota of vehicles in inland transport to foreign vehicles.
