Fuel labelling standardisation at service stations throughout the EU has entered into force on 12 October.The standardisation is based on Article 9(4) of Directive 2014/94/EU on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure. On this basis, the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) adopted an act on...
The Council of the EU agreed yesterday on CO2 emissions limit from cars and light commercial vehicles. The press release from the Council with more detailed information is available here. ...
The European Economic and Social Committee has adopted its opinion on the European Labour Authority.UETR is pleased to see that in the opinion transport is explicitly mentioned and its representatives’ involvement in the ELA Consultative Committee is proposed. ...
The European Commission has published a new study on Urban Logistic "The Integrated perspective”. The study is aimed at developing guidance documents including best practices on six different aspects of urban logistics. You can find the Study here. ...
From 1 June 2018 the new TSM in active in Hungary. The TSM is a complex measurement network system that enables the measurement of vehicles’ axle weight and determines their total weight without stopping the vehicle itself, thus allowing the filtering of overloaded cargo vehicles...
Italy has introduced on 30 April the ban on spending regular rest of 45 hrs in the cabin (while it is possible to do this in the case of daily rest and short weekly rest), in line with the recent ruling of the EU Court...
UETR expresses its deepest sympathy and most sincere condolences to the relatives of the victims of the immense tragedy of Genoa’s Morandi Bridge collapse. ...
At its meeting in Zagreb, UETR addressed the worrying situation of shortage of professional drivers to cover the needs of the transport companies in the different European countries. Only in France, Italy and Spain transport companies require 50,000 professional drivers. The shortage also affects the countries of...
UETR Secretary General Marco Digioia intervened at a hearing on 19 June at the Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture (SEDEC) of the Committee of the Region on the European Labour Authority (opinion by Rapporteur Mrs. Kampus). Digioia presented UETR view on ELA...
The second UEAPME Transport Forum meeting of 2018 took place on 3 July in Brussels, chaired by UETR SG Marco Digioia.The meeting discussed the upcoming vote at the EU Parliament on the social and market aspects of the Mobility Package I, the Clean Mobility Package...
