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Holidaymakers are to be hit with bills for hundreds of pounds under European Union plans to impose MoT-style tests on caravans.
Up to 200,000 families could be affected by the draconian demands which it is warned could devastate the UK’s tourism economy.
The UK government is to launch an attempt to block the regulations, but it is feared it will be passed into law by Brussels later this year.
Testing: Up to 200,000 caravans face annual MoT-style tests to see if they are roadworthy under EU plans
Under the new rules almost every caravan will have to undergo safety testing, similar to MoTs for cars.
Controversially, all other light trailers under 2000kg will remain excluded from testing and only caravans have been singled out.
German MEP Werner Kuhn, a member of the transport committee pushing the reforms, argued that regular checks are needed on caravans which can often be left 'in a barn and used only once a year'.
He added: 'Then the chicken feathers are swept away and you do not know if the brakes are still OK, if the lighting works.'
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Up to 200,000 families could be affected by the draconian demands which it is warned could devastate the UK’s tourism economy.
The UK government is to launch an attempt to block the regulations, but it is feared it will be passed into law by Brussels later this year.
Testing: Up to 200,000 caravans face annual MoT-style tests to see if they are roadworthy under EU plans
Under the new rules almost every caravan will have to undergo safety testing, similar to MoTs for cars.
Controversially, all other light trailers under 2000kg will remain excluded from testing and only caravans have been singled out.
German MEP Werner Kuhn, a member of the transport committee pushing the reforms, argued that regular checks are needed on caravans which can often be left 'in a barn and used only once a year'.
He added: 'Then the chicken feathers are swept away and you do not know if the brakes are still OK, if the lighting works.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-families-hundreds-pounds.html#ixzz2bVAYJMUm
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