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BackThe European Commission published a "Report on the State of the Union Road Transport Market" on 14 April 2014 to meet its reporting obligations by the end of 2013 under Art. 17 (3) of Regulation (EC) 1072/2009.
The introduction indicates that this report should be based on a wide range of studies, such as those by the European Parliament (EP) on the development of cabotage in EU road transport or on the social and working conditions in road haulage companies. Unfortunately the results of these studies were barely considered in this analysis of the road transport market. In the opinion of the Austrian Chamber of Labour (AK), the analyses, conclusions and recommendations of this report instead rely mainly on the "Report of the High Level Group on the Development of a Single European Transport Area" ("Bayliss report") of June 2012, which pushes the complete liberalisation of the European road haulage market in a broadly one-sided way.