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REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 96/53/EC laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Community the maximum authorised dimensions in national and international traffic and the maximum authorised weights in international traffic
Amendments (25)
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The transport of indivisible loads is an important market segment linked with the strategic areas of renewable energy, civil engineering and infrastructure, oil and gas, heavy industry and power generation sectors. Despite the recognised value of the existing European Best Practice Guidelines for Abnormal Transport, adopted by experts designated by the Member States, very little progress has been made towards the simplification and harmonisation of the rules and procedures to obtain permits for the transport of indivisible loads. Without prejudice to the right of Member States to establish the necessary conditions to ensure the safe transport of indivisible loads in their territories, Member States should cooperate to harmonise, to the extent possible, those requirements to avoid the multiplication of diverging conditions serving the same purpose. Member States should also ensure that national requirements are proportionate and non- discriminatory, refraining from imposing unjustified requirements such as fluency in the national language of the Member State concerned. To reduce administrative burden for operators and to ensure efficient, fair and safe operations, it is crucial to put in place a transparent, harmonised, user-friendly system for obtaining permits that is available in all EU languages and easily accessible by electronic communication means.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The transport of indivisible loads carried out by vehicles or vehicle combinations exceeding the maximum weights or dimensions and the use of EMS, given their needs for additional safety features and for suitable infrastructure, require that special attention is given to elements such as transparency of relevant information, legal certainty and harmonisation of the permit processes. It is therefore necessary for Member States to establish a single electronic information and communication system containing all the relevant information regarding the operational and administrative conditions for the transport of indivisible loads and for the use of EMS, in a clear and easily accessible manner. This national system should also enable the operators to obtain the information and submit electronically the application, in a standardised format, for special permits for the carriage of indivisible loads in the Member State concerned. The permits should be issued in an electronic format allowing transport operators to carry out such an abnormal transport by using this electronic document.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The artificial barriers to the cross- border transport of heavier lorries primarily used in long distance transport (such as vehicle combinations with 5 and 6 axles), should be removed in a harmonised way to take advantage in the short term of the operational, energy and environmental efficiency linked to the greater loading capacity granted by the Member States, including for intermodal transport. To effectively drive the transition towards zero-emission mobility, it is necessary to phase out the use of such heavier lorries running on fossil fuels, as of 2035, whenfurther encourage the market penetration of more efficient zero-emission HDVs is projected to increase significantly up to around 50% of new HDV registrations. After the phasing out, heavier lorries should continue to be allowed in national traffic while, in international traffic, they should comply with the maximum authorised weights set up in Annex I to Directive 96/53/EC, which limits the extra weight allowance to zero-emission vehicles and to vehicles involved in an intermodal transport operation. Non-zero emission vehicle combinations with 5 and 6 axles should continue to be allowed in international traffic, with the same extra weight allowance as zero- emission vehicles as long as the targets set in Regulation (EU) 2019/1242 allow the first registration of such vehicles or combinations and the state of enabling conditions is satisfactory.
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Effective, efficient, and consistent enforcement of the rules is of utmost importance to ensure undistorted competition between operators and eliminate risks to road safety and to road infrastructure posed by vehicles unlawfully exceeding the applicable weights or dimensions. To better target roadside controls at overloaded vehicles, and if they choose to use automatic systems on the road infrastructure, Member States should ensure as a minimum the deployment of such systems in the trans-European road transport network. Moreover, for reliability and consistency of the enforcement across the Union, the mandatory minimum level of controls to be performed by Member States should be established in proportion to the level of traffic on their territories by the vehicles within scope of this Directive, including an appropriate number of controls during night hours. The system in place should recognise additional allowed weights or dimensions to abnormal transport if a valid permit has been issued in order to avoid unjustified fines for such transports.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) The framework conditions for truck drivers in the exercise of their profession need to be urgently improved. The lack of truck parking spaces in the EU adds to the deterioration of the working conditions of truck drivers and fuels the shortage of drivers. To counteract the consequences of this, the European Commission should develop vehicle concepts that make drivers more independent of comfort equipment from parking spaces and provide for the installation of sanitary facilities in the vehicles, reflected in the dimensions of vehicles.
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – third subparagraph
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – third subparagraph
Member States shall guarantee that the conditions under which the permits or similar arrangements related to the transport of indivisible loads are issued are proportionate and non-discriminatory. In particular, Member States shall cooperate to avoid the multiplicity of vehicle markings and signalling, and to favour the use of pictograms over text and to align the rules for escorting abnormal transports. Member States shall not impose language requirements related to the transport and drivers of indivisible loads.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – first subparagraph
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – first subparagraph
Member States may allow vehicles or vehicle combinations used for transport which carry out certain national or international transport operations that do not significantly affect international competition in the transport sector to circulate in their territory with weights or dimensions deviating from those laid down in points 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 to 1.8, 2, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.4 of Annex I.
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) the Member State which permits transport operations to be carried out in its territory by vehicles or vehicle combinations with weights or dimensions deviating from those laid down in Annex I also permits the circulation of European Modular Systems pursuant to paragraph 4a, so as to achieve at least the loading length authorised in that Member State, and so that every operator may benefit from equal conditions of competition.
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 4a – paragraph 2
Article 4a – paragraph 2
2. The Commission mayshall adopt implementing acts establishing a common standard vehicle registration and permit application form and harmonising the rules and procedures for the issuing of national permits or similar arrangements referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and in Article 4(3). Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 10i(2).
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 4b – paragraph 1
Article 4b – paragraph 1
1. Whenever a Member State, pursuant to Article 4(2), point (a), allows the circulation within its territory of vehicle combinations with a maximum weight exceeding the limits set out in points 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 of Annex I, it may not reject or prohibit the use in its territory in international traffic of those vehicle combinations complying with the weight values set for the national transport of goods, provided that such vehicle combinations do not have a maximum authorised weight exceeding 446 tonnes.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 4b – paragraph 2
Article 4b – paragraph 2
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the 446 tonnes-weight limit set out in paragraph 1 may be exceeded in case the Member State allows higher weight values to those vehicle combinations when involved in an intermodal transport operation.
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 4b – paragraph 3
Article 4b – paragraph 3
3. In view of the expected increase in the uptake of zero-emission vehicles, this Article shall apply until 31 December 20349, if the enabling conditions on the market allow for it.’;
Amendment 214 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 8c – paragraph 1
Article 8c – paragraph 1
Vehicle transporters with open bodies may exceed the maximum lengths laid down in point 1.1 of Annex I while loaded, up to a total of 20,75 meters, using authorised load supports, such as extendable rear load supports.
Amendment 221 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Directive 95/53/EC
Article 8c – paragraph 2
Article 8c – paragraph 2
The overhang or load supporload may protrude in front of the vehicle transporters may not protrude in relation to the load. The load may protrude in fr, with the exceptiont of the towingarticulated vehicles, up to a maximum of 0,5 meters, provided that the first axles of the transported vehicle rests on the trailer structure. The load may protrude from behind up to a maximum of 1,5 meters, provided that the lastforward axle of the transported vehicle rests on the trailer structure.;
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
Directive 96/53 EC
Article 9a – paragraph 1
Article 9a – paragraph 1
1. Vehicles or vehicle combinations which comply with Regulation (EU) 2018/858 may exceed the maximum lengths laid down in point 1.1 of Annex I to this Directive provided that their cabs deliver improved aerodynamic performance, energy efficiency and, safety performance and improved driver comfort. Any excess of the maximum lengths allowed under this Article may also be used to install zero-emission technology. Vehicles or vehicle combinations equipped with such cabs shall comply with point 1.5 of Annex I to this Directive and any exceeding of the maximum lengths shall not result in an increase in the load capacity of those vehicles.
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 10b – paragraph 1 – first subparagraph
Article 10b – paragraph 1 – first subparagraph
The maximum authorised weights and axle weights of alternatively fuelled or zero- emission vehicles shall be those set out in points 2.2., 2.3, 2.4, 3.4.2 and 3.4.32 of Annex I.
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13 – point a
Directive 96/53/EC
Article 10d – paragraph 1 – fourth subparagraph
Article 10d – paragraph 1 – fourth subparagraph
Without prejudice to Union and national law, where automatic systems are used to establish infringements of this Directive and to impose penalties, such automatic systems shall be certified. These systems shall also have to be linked to an electronic licensing system for abnormal transports in order to recognise permitted vehicles carrying indivisible loads. Where automatic systems are used only for identification purposes, they need not be certified.
Amendment 254 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
Directive 96/53/CE
Article 10ja (new)
Article 10ja (new)
(19a) the following Article 10 ja is inserted: Article 10 ja Review The Commission shall by 2027 at the latest , review the effectiveness and impact of this Directive , the feasibility of the dates set out in Article 4b and its compatibility with other relevant Union legislation and submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council with the result of the review. The report shall, where appropriate, be accompanied by a proposal for amending this Directive based on findings of the review and an impact assessment. The Commission shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council, on the state of the enabling conditions for the market adoption of zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles in the Union. In this report, the Commission shall assess in particular, but not limited to, the following elements: (a) the amount of registrations of zero- emission heavy-duty vehicles in Member States, (b) the deployment of charging and refuelling infrastructure suitable for heavy-duty vehicles in Member States, (c) the implementation of road user charges differentiated by CO2 emissions in Member States (d) the level of the average price of allowances under the new the emissions trading system covering road transport (e) other measures that support the uptake of zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles.
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by [date-of-adoption+21 years] at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions. When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table – point 1.1
Annex I – table – point 1.1
1. Maximum authorised dimensions for the vehicles referred to in Article 1(1), point (a) 1.1 Maximum length — motor vehicle other than a bus 12,00 m — trailer 12,00 m — articulated vehicle 16,58,00 m — road train 18,75 m —three axled articulated bus 18,7518,75 m —four axled articulated bus 21,00 m — bus with two axles 13,50 m — bus with more than two axles 15,00 m — bus + trailer 18,75 m
Amendment 275 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table – point 2.2.2
Annex I – table – point 2.2.2
2.2.2 Articulated vehicles with five or six axles (a) two-axle motor vehicle with three-axle semi-trailer 40 tonnes (b) three-axle motor vehicle with two or three-axle semi-trailer 40 tonnes (ba) trailerthree-axle motor vehicle with three-axle semi-trailer 44 tonnes (c) two-axle motor vehicle with three-axle semi-trailer 424 tonnes involved in intermodal transport operations or zero- emission or alternatively fuelled two-axle motor vehicle with three-axle semi-trailer (d) three-axle motor vehicle with two- or three-axle semi- 446 tonnes semi-trailer involved in intermodal transport operations or op zero-emission or alternationsvely fuelled two-axle motor vehicle with three-axle semi-trailer
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table – point 2.3.
Annex I – table – point 2.3.
2.3 Motor vehicles 2.3.1 Two-axle motor vehicles other than buses: 18 tonnes 2.3.2 two-axle buses: 19,5 tonnes 2.3.3 Three-axle motor vehicles: 25 tonnes 2.3.4 Three-axle motor vehicles where ithe driving axle is fitted with 26 tonnes twin tyres and air suspension or suspension recognised as being equivalent within the Union as defined in Annex II, or where each driving axle is fitted with twin tyres and the maximum weight of each axle does not exceed 9,5 tonnes.s according to 26 tonnes 3.5.3.2 to 3.5.3.4. 2.3.5 Four-axle motor vehicles with two steering axles where the ith driving 32 tonnes driving axle is fitted with twin tyres and air suspension or suspension recognized as being equivalent within the Union as defined in Annex II, or where each driving axle is fitted with twin tyres and the maximum weight of each axle does not exceed 9,5 tonnesaxles according to 3.5.3.2 to 3.5.3.4. 2.3.6 Five-axle motor vehicles with two steering axles where the ith driving 40 tonnes driving axle is fitted with twin tyres and air suspension or suspension recognized as being equivalent within the Union as defined in Annex II, or where each driving axle is fitted with twin tyres and the maximum weight of each axle does not exceed 9,5 tonnes.axles according to 3.5.3.2 to 3.5.3.4. In the case of alternatively fuelled vehicles other than zero-emission vehicles, the maximum authorised weights provided for in points 2.3.1, 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 of Sub-section 2.3 shall be increased by the additional weight of the alternative fuel technology with a maximum of 1 tonne. In the case of zero-emission vehicles, the maximum authorised weights provided for in Sub-section 2.3 shall be increased by 2 tonnes.
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table – point 2.4
Annex I – table – point 2.4
2.4 Articulated buses 2.4.1 Three- axle articulated buses 28 tonnes 2.4.2 Four axle articulated buses 328 tonnes In the case of alternatively fuelled vehicles other than zero-emission vehicles, the maximum authorised weight of 28 tonnes provided for in Sub-section 2.4 is increased by the additional the additional weight required for the alternative fuel technology with a maximum of 1 tonne. In the case of zero-emission vehicles the maximum authorised weight of 28 tonnes provided for in Sub-section 2.4 .1 is increased by 23 tonnes and the maximum authorised weight provided for in Sub-section 2.4.2 is increased by 4 tonnes.
Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table – point 3.4
Annex I – table – point 3.4
3.4 Driving axle 3.4.1 Driving axle of the vehicles referred to in points 2.2, 2.3 and 112,5 tonnes 2.4 other than zero-emission vehicles 3.4.2 Driving axle of zero-emission vehicles referred to in points 2.3 12.5 tonnes 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 3.4.3 Zero-emission two-axle buses 12.5 tonnesand 2.4
Amendment 298 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – table – point 3.5.3
Annex I – table – point 3.5.3
3.5.3 1,3 m or greater but less than 1,8 m (1,3 ≤ d < 1,8) 3.5.3. In general 18 tonnes 1 3.5.3. Where the driving axle is fitted with twin tyres and air 19 tonnes 2 suspension or suspension recognised as being equivalent within the Union as defined in Annex II, or where each driving axle is fitted with twin tyres and where the maximum weight for each axle does not exceed 9,5 tonnes 3.5.3. In case of a zero-emissions vehicle referred to in points 2.3 20 tonnes 3 and 2.4 where the driving axle is fitted with twin tyres and air suspension or suspension recognised as being quivalent within the Union as defined in Annex II 3.5.3. In case of a zero-emission vehicle referred to in points 2.3 20 tonnes 4 and 2.4 where each driving axles is fitted with twin tyres and where the maximum weight for each axle does not exceed 10 tonnes