Motor Trader reports that NFDA director, Sue Robinson, has been lobbying for a continuation of the dealer protection provisions of the block exemption when the present regulation expires. She has been talking to Paolo Cesarini, the Commission official responsible for the regulation, and to a member of the cabinet of Commission Vice President Verheugen, Joanna Szychowska. She has also been talking to Malcolm Harbour MEP, which I suspect was the easiest of the meetings, and Marc Greven of ACEA, whose members mostly support the Cesarini approach of removing everything from the regulation that does not have a clear antitrust role.
