1.   They will now be available to any company which can demonstrate that new sidings would reduce lorry traffic on virtually any trunk road.

2.   Austria was given concessions, for a transitional period, to continue subsidies for mountain farming and to restrict heavy lorry traffic from elsewhere on its roads.

3.   Ecologists say the tunnel and extensions to the existing road will turn the picturesque Aspe valley into a corridor for international lorry traffic.

4.   They were protesting repeated delays in reopening the tunnel as well as other regulations placed on lorry traffic by Switzerland and Austria.