7 June 2011 - Eurovignette: the spirit of compromise prevails on a concrete, real and effective vision of a sustainable transport UETR emphasizes the heavy impact on road transport companies resulting from the new text of the directive on the taxation of heavy goods vehicles for...
7 November 2011 - The European Transport Security Council (ETSC) has published the 7th PRAISE Report titled “Tackling Fatigue: EU Social Rules and Heavy Goods Vehicle Drivers” in the framework of PRAISE project As the title suggests, the latest report focuses on one of the major causes of...
24 October 2011 - Tyrol’s Authorities deferred to the 31 October 2012 the extension of night driving ban for vehicles with gross weight over 7.5 tones equipped with Euro V engines (which are now exempted). The Euro VI vehicles will be allowed to circulate until 2015. According to...
4 October 2011 - The new specifications of Commission Regulation (EU) N. 1266/2009 solve the "one minute rule" problem. The new rules apply to all tachographs activated as from 1 October 2011 on vehicles registered from that day. The regulation solves the problem of rounding to 60...
11 October 2011 – Today, the European Parliament Committee for Transport has discussed the 413 amendments on the draft report prepared by Mr. Mathieu Grosch (EPP) on the “Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area”. The European Parliament is preparing to express his own opinion (as the Committee...
13 October 2011 - The event "Can we finance Europe's Major Infrastructures?" was organized yesterday by ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Among others, attended the event: the Commissioner for Energy Günther Öttinger, the former Commissioner and TEN-E Coordinator Mario Monti and the DG MOVE Director...
19 October 2011 – The European Commission has today adopted the proposal to create the unified Trans-European Network for Transport (TEN-T). The implementation of the project will remove bottlenecks, upgrade infrastructure, promote inter-modality and contribute to reduce pollution. The result will be a general improvement of the...
21 October 2011 - The new Marco Polo II Call for 2011 has been launched today. The program, which aims to reduce European road traffic for an annual volume of 20 billion tons per kilometer (the equivalent of more than 700000 trucks a year travelling between Paris...
19 July 2011 - European Commission presented a proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport. The proposal contains a small change for Regulation 561/2006 too. Concerning to the Regulation 3821/85, Commission introduced significant changes, given the need to revise the old and inadequate...
23 June 2011 - From 3 January 2012, the standard for the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in London will be modified. New standards, more restrictive, will be required: engines of trucks, buses, coaches and other heavy vehicles over 3.5 tons will have to follow the standard strong>Euro 4 for particulate emissions. For...
