7 Amendments of Maria GRAPINI related to 2017/0128(COD)
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Electronic tolling and co-operative ITS (C-ITS) applications use similar technologies and neighbouring frequency bands for short range vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. In the future, the potential for merging electronic tolling with C-ITS in the 5.9 GHz band, currently used by C- ITS, should be explored, after a thorough assessment of the costs, benefits, technical barriers and possible solutions thereto, so that this does not constitute a barrier, especially for SMEs.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) When standards relevant for the EETS are reviewed by the European standardisation bodies, there should be optimally appropriate transition arrangements to ensure the continuity of the EETS and the compatibility, with the tolling systems, of interoperability constituents already in use at the moment of the revision of the standards.
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Problems with identifying non- resident offenders to electronic tolling systems hamper further deployment of such systems and the wider application of the 'user pays' and 'polluter pays' principles on Union roads, and there is therefore a need to find a way to identify such persons.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
This Directive shall apply without prejudice to the decisions taken by Member States to levy fees on particular types of vehicles, and to determine the level of those fees and the purpose for which such fees are levied, hence respecting subsidiarity.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
(2) On-board equipment which uses satellite positioning technology shallneeds to be compatible with the positioning services provided by the Galileo and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service ('EGNOS') systems and may be compatiblealso with other satellite navigation systems.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. When sending the information letter to the owner, the holder of the vehicle or to the otherwise identified person suspected of failing to pay the road fee, the Member State in whose territory there was a failure to pay a road fee shall, in accordance with its law, include any relevant information, notably the nature of the failure to pay the road fee, the place, date and time of the failure to pay the road fee, the title of the texts of the national law infringed and the sanction and, where appropriate, data concerning the device used for detecting the offence. For that purpose, the Member State in whose territory there was a failure to pay a road fee may use the template set out in Annex III.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
The Commission shall, by [54 years after the entry into force of this Directive], submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the application of Articles 6 and 7 of this Directive by the Member States. In its report, the Commission shall focus in particular on, and shall, as appropriate, make proposals to cover, the following aspects: