7 July 2011 - Commission published a new action plan to strengthen transport links with neighboring regions. The plan contains more than twenty specific measures, differentiated between short and long term, to make the transports easier, safer and reliable. For road transport sector, concerning the opening of the...
12 September 2011- Today the Commissioner for Transport Mr. Siim Kallas, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament and a representative of the Polish Presidency met to discuss the level of implementation of Directive 2002/15/EC on working time in the field of...
13 September 2011- UETR Secretary General, Marco Digioia, has intervened in the meeting on TRANSPO project, held today in Rome. TRANSPO is a pilot project co-funded by the European Commission in order to support the application of the Directive 96/71/EC on posting of workers in the...
Immediate measures to solve road transport crisis European road transport has been heavily hit by uncontrolled rising oil prices. The sector is in a deep and grave crisis today.Strikes and protests spread across Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy…) are a clear signal that road transport is...
UETR President Del Boca's interview as Chairman of UEAPME transport forum. Watch the video ...
L'Officiel des Transporteurs interviews UETR President Francesco Del Boca One of the most respected reviews on transportation, L'Officiel des Transporteurs, has interviewed UETR President Francesco Del Boca on the main problems of the transportation sector in Europe. In his interview Mr. Del Boca stressed...
11 July 2008 - Internalization of external costs in road transport (download the full press release in French here) (download the full press release in Italian here) ...
6 October 2009 - UETR presented a number of comments on the Communication (2009) 279/4 of the European Commission towards the elaboration of the new EU White Paper on European Transport Policy of 2010. (download the full press release in French here) (download the full...
16 June 2010 - UETR strongly condemns the European Parliament Plenary session's vote on the 16 of June rejecting the Commission’s proposal to exempt self-employed drivers from directive 2002/15/CE on working time of mobile workers.This decision indicates a deficiency in social and enterprise policy by...
15 October 2010 - UETR disillusioned by the EU compromise on the revision of the Eurovignette Directive UETR the European Road Haulers Association feels disappointed with the compromise on the revision of the Eurovignette Directive agreed by the Transport Council of the European Union today....
