After years of legal stalemate, ETF affiliate RMT and the Scottish Government made a joint approach to the European Commission in April 2016 over the possibility of using ‘Teckal’ case law to exempt public contracts for Scottish ferry services from the tendering requirements of Maritime Cabotage Regulation 3577/92. The European Transport Commissioner, Violeta Bulc replied to the Scottish Transport Minister Humza Yousaf MSP on 22 September 2016 that a Teckal exemption could apply to the Maritime Cabotage Regulation, although the…