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...
5 July 2011 - The Hungarian government announced more stringent controls on heavy goods vehicles weight from 1st August 2011. Starting from that date, customs and tax authorities jointly to the managing body of the national road network will increase the controls over the weighing of heavy vehicles. The...
27 May 2011 - UETR General Assembly and Management Board took place today in Paris hosted by its French Member Unostra at AFT-IFTIM premises (the French national Institute of Vocational Training in Transport and Logistics).Mr. Roland Bacou, new Unostra President (Goods transport section) gave a welcome speech together...
19 September 2011- The UETR Management Board has been held today in Brussels. ...
26 November 2010- UETR management board, held today in Lisbon, saw the participation of the Portuguese Secretary of State for Transport Dr. Carlos Correia da Fonseca, MEP Mrs. Maria da Graça Carvalho and the Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Transport Mr. Antonio Mendonça. The future White...
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...
