15 March 2012 - The European Commission launched today a public consultation on the provision of information and reservation services for safe and secure parking places for trucks and commercial vehicles under the ITS Directive 2010/40/EU. The European Commission aims to develop and expand the Intelligent...
22 March 2012 – UETR Secretary General Mr. Marco Digioia gave a presentation on "EU road haulage sector: current issues and future challenges", at BDI (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V.) premises in Brussels, in the framework of RITS project. RITS (Restructuring and Industrial Relations in the...
26 March 2012 – UETR Secretary General Mr. Marco Digioia met Mrs. Ljuba Siljanoska, State Councilor of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Macedonia. The meeting was organized in the framework of the European Union Visitors Programme supported by the European Parliament...
28 February 2012 - Today, UETR attended the public hearing organized by the European Commission in Brussels on the situation of the Internal Market for Road Haulage.The EC will present a report on the subject by the end of 2013. In order to prepare...
14 February 2012 - UETR has signed a cooperation agreement with NORMAPME, the European Office of Crafts, Trades and Small and Medium sized Enterprises for Standardisation created in 1996 with the support of the European Commission and devoted to the interests of SMEs in the...
20 February 2012 – The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) exposed its opinion on the Commission proposal to merge the driving licence of professional drivers with their driver card. The integration of two totally different functionalities in one single card, which would record a wide...
5 July 2010 - The UETR General Assembly, held today in Brussels, re-elected Mr. Francesco Del Boca as President of UETR. Mr. Del Boca is already President of Confartigianato Trasporti (Italy’s National Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises- Transport, Logistics...
24 January 2012 - UETR delegation (Francesco Del Boca, Marco Digioia, Lode Verkinderen, Laszlo Agai) has met with the Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Transport Mr. Siim Kallas on the 24th of January in Brussels. “We have been honoured to meet the...
25 January 2012 - Secretary General Marco Digioia spoke at the Goodyear Dunlop Symposium “Driving fuel efficiency in Europe’s road freight transport”.Mr. Digioia presented small haulers' approach to the reduction of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. He highlighted four key points that are crucial for...
9 February 2012 – Today, the European Court of Justice, examining the case of a Hungarian truck in transit from Hungary to Romania (Case C-210/10), stated that the penalties for breaching tachograph rules must be proportionate and therefore are not legitimate if imposed regardless of...
