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Activities of Dieter-Lebrecht KOCH related to 2011/0196(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Tachographs and social legislation relating to road transport (debate)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2011/0196(COD)

Amendments (23)

Amendment 2 #
Council position
Recital 21 a (new)
(Reinstates Amendment 6 of the position at first read(21a) The transport of passengers and goods takes place under very widely differing terms and conditions. Accordingly, a revision of the tachograph requirements and the rules on driving, adopted on 3 July 2012)nd rest periods for bus drivers should be submitted as soon as possible, and at any rate by the end of 2013. Or. de
2013/11/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) The recording of location data facilitates the cross checking of driving times and rest periods in order to detect anomalies and fraud. The use of recording equipment connected to a global navigation satellite system is an appropriate and cost-efficient means of allowing the automatic recording of such data in order to support control officers during controls, and should therefore be introduced.deleted
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) Directive 2006/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on minimum conditions for the implementation of Council Regulations (EEC) No 3820/85 and (EEC) 3821/85 concerning social legislation relating to road transport activities and repealing Council Directive 88/599/EEC requires Member States to carry out a minimum number of checks at the roadside. Remote communication between the recording equipment and control authorities for roadside control purposes facilitates targeted roadside checks, making it possible to reduce the administrative burden created by random checks on transport undertakings, and should accordingly be introduced.deleted
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) In order to reduce the administrative burden on drivers and transport undertakings, it should be clarified that there is no need for written proof of daily or weekly rest periods. For control purposes, periods for which no activity has been recorded for the driver should accordingly be considered as rest periods.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
(21 a) The transport of passengers and goods takes place under very widely differing terms and conditions. Accordingly, a revision of the tachograph requirement and the rules on driving and rest periods for bus drivers should be submitted as soon as possible, and at any rate by the end of 2013.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 b (new)
(21 b) Standards and specifications should be drawn up as open standards allowing for the incorporation into one and the same device, following examination by the Commission, of other functions such as accident recorders and 112 e-call.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
(1) For the purposes of this Regulation the definitions set out in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 shall apply. In that regulation, ‘multi-manning’ means the situation where, during each period of driving between any two consecutive daily rest periods, or between a daily rest period and a weekly rest period, there are at least two drivers in the vehicle to do the driving. For the first two hours and the last two hours of multi- manning the presence of another driver or drivers is optional.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85
Article 2 – Paragraph 2 – point i
(i) “workshop card” means a tachograph card issued by the authorities of a Member State to a recording equipmentdesignated member of staff of tachograph manufacturer, a fitter, a vehicle manufacturer or a workshop approved by that Member State which identifies the cardholder and allows for the testing, calibration and/or downloading of the recording equipmenttachograph; this also imposes the obligation of management of tachograph manufacturer, a fitter, a vehicle manufacturer or a workshop approved by that Member State, to ensure that no fraudulent activity takes place at a tachograph manufacturer, a fitter, a vehicle manufacturer or a workshop approved by that Member State;
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85
Article 3 a
Article 3 a Functions of the tachograph The tachograph shall ensure the following functions: (1) monitoring cards, insertions and withdrawals, (2) speed and distance measurement, (3) time measurement, (4) monitoring driver activities, (5) monitoring driving status, (6) drivers manual entries, (7) entry of places where daily work periods begin and/or end, (8) manual entry of driver activities, (9) entry of specific conditions, (10) company locks management, (11) monitoring control activities, (12) detection of events and/or faults, (13) built-in and self tests, (14) reading from data memory, (15) recording and storing in data memory, (16) reading from tachograph cards, (17) recording and storing in tachograph cards, (18) displaying, (19) printing, (20) warning, (21) data downloading to external media, (22) output data to additional external devices, (23) calibration, (24) time adjustment. (25) indication of remaining driving time, (26) indication of rest time taken.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85

Article 5 – paragraph 2
(2) Communication shall be established with the recording equipment only when so requested by the equipment of the control authorities. It shall be secured to ensure data integrity and authentication of the recording and control equipment. The data exchanged during communication shall be limited to the data necessary for the purpose of targeted roadside checks on vehicles with potentially manipulated or misused recording equipment. The transport undertaking shall be allowed access to the data exchanged.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 199 #
Proposal for a regulationArticle 1 – point 1 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. The data exchanged shall be used for the sole purpose of controlling compliance with this Regulation and Regulation (EC) No 561/2006. It shall not be transmitted to entities other than control authoritiesis essential that the transport undertaking be allowed access to the data exchanged.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85
Article 19 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shallcan take appropriate measures to prevent conflicts of interests between fitters or workshops and road transport undertakings. In particular, i, if member states deem it necessary. In particular, Member States may decide to prohibit the practice of a transport undertaking is also operating as an approved fitter or workshop, it shall not be allowed to and thus prevent them from installing and calibrateing recording equipment in itstheir own vehicles.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85
Article 27
Driver cards shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter until 18 January 2018. With effect from 19 January 2018, driver cards shall be incorporated into driving licences andThe Commission is to carry out an Impact Assessment on the feasibility of merging all of the cards used by professional drivers, in particular the driver card with the driver licence, within 24 months of the entry into force of this regulation. The Commission shall examine the technical solutions available, and card compatibility issueds, renewed, exchanged and replaced in accordancin order to reduce the amount of card fraud currently taking place. The Commission shall communicate with the provisions of Directive 2006/126/EC. s findings to the European Parliament within 30 months of the entry into force of this regulation.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85
Article 29 – paragraph 3
(3) A transport undertaking shall not be liable for infringements against this Regulation committed intentionally or with gross negligence by drivers of the undertaking. Without prejudice to the right of Member States to hold transport undertakings fully liable, Member States may consider any evidence that the transport undertaking cannot reasonably be held responsible for the infringement committed.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85
Article 32 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. The Commission is to carry out a study of enforcement regimes in all the Member States, within 18 months of the first Enforcement Officer Certificates being awarded, to establish how many certified officers there are in each state. Thereafter, Member States must report to the Commission on an annual basis, detailing the training received by officers, and the numbers of active Enforcement Officers who have obtained the European Certificate.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 279 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85
Article 35 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The Commission is to investigate the establishment a common system of training of enforcement officers within 24 months of the application of this regulation, so as to ensure that there are certain training specifications set out before officers are awarded a European Enforcement Certificate.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 306 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 1
Regulation (EC) 561/2006
Article 13 – point d
(d) vehicles or combinations of vehicles with a maximum permissible mass not exceeding 7,5 tonnes used: - that are used for the purpose of delivering postal items. If recourse to the exception is made, these vehicles shall only be used within a 200 kilometre radius of the base of the undertaking and on condition that driving the vehicle does not constitute the driver's main activity.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 307 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 1
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6a
By way of derogation from paragraph 6, a driver engaged in the carriage of passengers, as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services, may postpone the weekly rest period for up to 12 consecutive 24-hour periods following a previous regular weekly rest period, provided that: a) the driver takes one regular weekly rest period after the use of the derogation; b) a total weekly rest period of 140 hours is observed within a 4-week period.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 312 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 13 c a (new)
Civil defence, fire and rescue service vehicles, regardless of whether these are State or non-State services
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 327 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – points d, f und p
The distance of ‘50 km’ referred to in points (d), (f) and (p) of Article 13(1) is replaced by ‘1200 km’.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 334 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 13 – point h
h) vehicles used in connection with sewerage, flood protection, water, gas and electricity maintenance services, road construction, maintenance and control, door-to-door household refuse collection and disposal, telegraph and telephone services, radio and television broadcasting, and the detection of radio or television transmitters or receivers;
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point (l)
vehicles used for milk collection from farms and/or the return to farms of milk containers or the delivery of milk products intended for animal feed.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 341 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 c (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point (q) (new)
q) vehicles used on condition that driving them does not constitute the driver's main activity.
2012/03/29
Committee: TRAN