Court of Justice 11 July 2002, C-112/00 (Eugen Schmidberger, Internationale Transporte und Planzüge v Republik Österreich.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. The present request for a preliminary ruling, made by the Oberlandesgericht (Higher Regional Court), Innsbruck, Austria, concerns essentially the extent of a Member State's duty to keep major transit routes open in order to ensure free movement of goods within the Community, in particular whether it must prohibit if necessary for