Letter from Lord Tordoff, Chairman of the Committee,
to John Bowis, OBE, MP, Minister for Transport in London and
Road Safety, Department of Transport
5386/96 - Amended proposal for a Directive on the
maximum design speed of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors
The above amended proposal was considered today by Sub-Committee
B, to whom it was sifted for scrutiny. The Sub-Committee was
interested to note that a European Parliament amendment to the
original proposal (8165/96), which would have introduced harmonised
standards for tractors with maximum design speeds in excess of
40 kph, has been rejected by the Commission. As you will recall
from previous correspondence,[8] the Sub-Committee supports
the extension of Community type-approval to these faster vehicles,
and for that reason it strongly endorses the position expressed
in paragraph 4 of your Explanatory Memorandum of 19 February.
This letter lifts the scrutiny reserve. I would be grateful
if you could let me know in due course what success you have
during forthcoming negotiations in persuading the Commission and
other Member States of the merits of the approach outlined in
your EM.
6 March 1997
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