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....
28 March 2011 - New White Paper on transport: UETR welcomes the roadmap but reminds that small hauliers do not want to get lost UETR welcomes the new White Paper on Transport and its goal of a competitive and sustainable transport sector, capable of addressing...
12 April 2011 - Internalization of external costs: european parliament's missed chance UETR expresses its disappointment over outcome of today’s vote of Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament, backing the text drafted by rapporteur Mr. Said El Khadraoui: "the text adopted by MEPs...
6 May 2009 - UETR at the SMEs week. UETR primarily represents the characteristic interests of micro and small enterprises in the road transport sector in their relations with the decision-making bodies of the EU. The recently experienced disadvantageous effects – decreasing demand, price of fuel, long terms...
27 April 2010 - The EEA report: "Towards a resource-efficient transport system — TERM 2009" has been published today (please find here the text of the report). Focusing on the polluting emissions, the EEA Report states that with the 2009/443/EC directive, the European Commission decided to introduce more...
Motorways of the sea: new EC helpdesk The European Commission has launched a new helpdesk (www.mos-helpdesk.eu) on funding possibilities for the Motorways of the sea projects. It will also point to other relevant national and European Union funding schemes. The service will help with identifying co-financing options...
