The European Commission has confirmed that it will not bring back the rule that required lorries to return to their home country every eight weeks.
The Truck Return Rule was scrapped last year after the EU court said there was not enough evidence to support it.
The European Union’s Court of Justice struck down the provision requiring vehicles involved in international transport to return to the operational centre of the company every eight weeks.
The Court found that the European Parliament and the Council needed more information to justify the proportionality of the measure when it was adopted.
The truck return mandate aimed to prevent companies from setting up shop in low-cost countries while operating on a near-permanent basis in other parts of the bloc.
But it outraged countries on the EU’s periphery, such as Ireland, which feared it would effectively exclude them from the internal market.
