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IRU highlighted the importance of keeping road transport operations between the UK and EU27.
IRU gathered representatives from EU28 countries to call on the Brexit negotiators to pay urgent attention to road transport sector-specific issues.
The UK is the EU’s second biggest trading partner and the EU is the UK’s most important partner to trade with. In 2016, eight million freight units were transported between the UK and the EU27 mainly by road. Any changes to this deep integration between the EU and the UK will have an adverse impact on goods and passenger operations in the EU and/or the UK, as well as on the European economy in general.
As UK and EU negotiators have recently initiated discussions on their future relationships, IRU has been engaging at an event on May 23 with officials of EU28 countries to share its concerns regarding the post-Brexit framework. IRU highlighted the importance of keeping road transport operations between the UK and EU27 as seamless as possible both from the market access and the customs point of view.
In the case of the UK leaving the customs union, IRU urged the UK and EU to take steps to minimise disruption. Therefore, the UK should remain a member of the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) and use other trade facilitation systems such as TIR. Moreover, for businesses and citizens, there should be no increase of border controls for entry and exit to and from the UK of coaches carrying groups of tourists. Read more
Source: IRU
