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MEPs have rejected a plan that would have categorised ATVs used on farms as road recreational vehicles.
If the proposal had gone through, it would have brought with it additional costs for the design, manufacture and insurance of vehicles.
However, it appears that the following lobbying by British MEP's, the threat has been lifted. The European Parliament it seems, will instead place them in a new category for ATVs to be included in legislation on tractors and other agricultural vehicles.
Conservative MEP Malcom Harbour, chairman of the committee, warned the decision had still to be confirmed by a vote of the whole European Parliament.
Scottish Liberal Democrat MEP George Lyon, one of the main campaigners against the proposed legislation, has said there is still work to be done. He is quoted by The Farmer's Guardian as saying, "The Commission is still refusing to comprimise and seems determined to force manufacturers to stop making quad bikes which are built specifically for use by farmers and foresters."
"The next step is to get the full backing of the Parliament for our position and force the Commission to come to its senses and recognise that on both safety and cost grounds quad bikes for off-road use and quad bikes for on-road use must be built to take account of the different conditions they will be operated under."
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