Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
Good news was revealed today by the Chief Minister as the first stage of legal proceedings put against the Gibraltar Government by former Runway tunnel contractors Obrascon Huarte Lain SA (OHL), come to a close. Mr. Picardo this morning
told the Press that the Judgement being delivered today by Mr Justice Akenhead is that the ‘Gibraltar Government has succeeded entirely on the central issue of how the contract between OHL and the Government was terminated in the summer of 2011’.
The Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Association (GCVA) welcomes Parliament’s approval of the new legislation designed to protect, enhance and properly regulate the use of classic vehicles in Gibraltar.
The new legislation means that for the first time classic vehicles are recognised in Law as requiring special treatment. The road testing requirements, popularly known as MOT testing, will take into account the age of the vehicle and the motor technology that was available at the time it was first built. This, for example, will exempt classic vehicles from today's very stringent emission controls.
Extensive Frontier queues for vehicles crossing into Spain are building up once again for the second evening in a row, with the RGP reporting that current waiting times are at 2 hours.