European Parliament 6 April 1998, WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1025/98 by Georg JARZEMBOWSKI to the Commission. Number of inspections in the road haulage industry

Where diplomas are concerned, obligations to recognise them derive directly from the EC Treaty. The Court of Justice, in its judgments in the Heylens (222/86 of 15 October 1987) and Vlassopoulou (C-340/89 of 7 May 1991) cases, stressed that the host Member State cannot, without disregarding an obligation which has its source in the EC Treaty itself and in particular in Articles 5, 48, 52 and 59,