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Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee – Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council empowering Austria to amend its existing bilateral road transport agreement with Switzerland with a view to authorising cabotage operations in the course of the provision of international road passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions between the two countries (COM(2025) 773 final – 2025/0407 (COD))
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee – Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council empowering Austria to amend its existing bilateral road transport agreement with Switzerland with a view to authorising cabotage operations in the course of the provision of international road passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions between the two countries (COM(2025) 773 final – 2025/0407 (COD))
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee – Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council empowering Austria to amend its existing bilateral road transport agreement with Switzerland with a view to authorising cabotage operations in the course of the provision of international road passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions between the two countries (COM(2025) 773 final – 2025/0407 (COD))
EESC 2026/00125
OJ C, C/2026/1970, 28.4.2026, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/1970/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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Official Journal |
EN C series |
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C/2026/1970 |
28.4.2026 |
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee
Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council empowering Austria to amend its existing bilateral road transport agreement with Switzerland with a view to authorising cabotage operations in the course of the provision of international road passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions between the two countries
(COM(2025) 773 final – 2025/0407 (COD))
(C/2026/1970)
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Referral |
European Parliament, 12.1.2026 Council of the European Union, 16.1.2026 |
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Legal basis |
Articles 2(1), 91 and 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union |
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Section responsible |
Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society |
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Adopted at plenary |
21.1.2026 |
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Plenary session No |
602 |
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Outcome of vote (for/against/abstentions) |
243/0/3 |
Since the Committee endorses the contents of the proposal and has already set out its views on the subject in its earlier opinion TEN/698 on Bilateral road transport agreements between Switzerland and Germany and between Switzerland and Italy [ OJ C 14, 15.1.2020, p. 118] (1), adopted on 25 September 2019, it decided to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text and to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned document.
Brussels, 21 January 2026.
The President
of the European Economic and Social Committee
Séamus BOLAND
(1) Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council empowering Germany to amend its existing bilateral road transport agreement with Switzerland with a view to authorising cabotage operations in the course of international road passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions between the two countries’ (COM(2019) 221 final) and ‘Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council empowering Italy to negotiate and conclude an agreement with Switzerland authorising cabotage operations in the course of international road passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions between the two countries’ (COM(2019) 223 final) (OJ C 14, 15.1.2020, p. 118).
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/1970/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)