15 June 2012 – Today, the European Commissioner for Transport Siim Kallas provided the European Parliament and Council with an interpretation of the Directive 96/53/EC on weights and dimensions of road vehicles, particularly, on the conditions that must be met when adjacent Member States want...
18 June 2012 - UETR President Mr. Francesco Del Boca chaired today the UEAPME Transport Forum at UEAPME premises in Brussels. Current issues on road transport sector have been discussed by the Forum. Particular attention was paid to the revision of tachograph legislation, the ongoing review of the...
4 June 2012 – The European Commission Published today a report on the implementation of Directive 2007/38/EC on the retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles that imposed the installation of special mirrors on HGVs in order to reduce risks linked to the blind spot...
27 March 2012 - The TRACE policy leads event took place today. UETR has been involved in the project from the beginning. The purpose of the project is to develop a training package that can be used in the different Member States, using defined approaches and...
20 June 2012 – Today, the Call for the Marco Polo’s program 2012 was published. The available budget for the 2012 Call is €64.6 million. Special environmentally-friendly maritime projects, inland waterway projects and rail projects with single-wagon loads are priorities in 2012. The deadline for the...
23 April 2012 - UETR Welcomes the EP vote on the Revision of Energy Taxation Directive. UETR welcomes the vote of the Plenary Session of the European Parliament approving the report by MEP Astrid Lulling on the European Commission’s proposal on the review of...
1 December 2010 - UEAPME Transport Forum, chaired by UETR President Francesco Del Boca, took place on the 1 of December morning in Brussels at WKO Austrian Chambers of Commerce premises. Issues like the enforcement of social rules in road transport, Eurovignette III...
6 July 2011 - UETR participated in the meeting organized today by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) in Brussels. The conference was aimed at receiving useful suggestions from stakeholders to finalize the seventh report "EU Social Rules and Road Safety of HGV Drivers" in...
27 April 2012 – UETR attended today the official presentation at DG MOVE of the European Commission of the final version of the report "Study on Urban Freight Transport” The aim of the study, by MDS Transmodal Limited, is to provide an overview on the existing and planned...
31 May 2012 – Today, the European Commission adopted a working paper on transport security. The document aims to gather ideas for the development of the European transport security policy. Particularly, the document focuses on the lack of a common strategy for the land transport...
