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RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 1999/62/EC, 1999/37/EC and (EU) 2019/520, as regards the charging of vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures
2022/01/18
Committee: TRAN
Dossiers: 2017/0114(COD)
Documents: PDF(182 KB) DOC(57 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Giuseppe FERRANDINO', 'mepid': 192634}]

Amendments (30)

Amendment 1 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 – paragraph 10
10. From … [82 years after the date of entry into force of this amending Directive], Member States shall not apply user charges for heavy-duty vehicles on the core trans-European transport network.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 2 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7 – paragraph 12
12. Where Member States apply a common system for user charges in accordance with Article 8, those Member States shall adapt or discontinue the common system by … [102 years after the date of entry into force of this amending Directive].
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 3 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. If user charges are applied in respect of passenger cars, the use of the infrastructure shall be made available at least for the following periods: a day, a week or 10 days or both, a month or two months or both, and a year. The two- monthly rate shall not exceed 320 % of the annual rate, the monthly rate shall not exceed 190 % of the annual rate, the 10-day rate shall not exceed 127 % of the annual rate, the weekly rate shall not exceed 115 % of the annual rate and the daily rate shall not exceed 91 % of the annual rate.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 4 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Member States may limit the daily user charge for transit purposes only.deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 5 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3
In respect of user charge schemes adopted before … [the date of entry into force of this amending Directive], Member States may maintain rates above the limits set out in the first subparagraph, provided that they were in force before that date, and may maintain corresponding higher rates for other periods of use, in compliance with the principle of equal treatment. However, they shall comply with the limits set out in the first subparagraph as well as with the second subparagraph as soon as substantially amended charging arrangements enter into force and, at the latest, by … [82 years after the date of entry into force of this amending Directive].
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 6 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7aa – paragraph 1
1. Member States that applied tolls on their core trans-European transport network or on part of it, before … [the date of entry into force of this amending Directive], may establish a combined charging system for all heavy-duty vehicles or for some types of heavy-duty vehicles.deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 7 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7aa – paragraph 2
2. In that combined charging system, Member States may, notwithstanding Article 7(10), apply user charges for all heavy-duty vehicles or for some types of heavy-duty vehicles including for some weight categories of heavy-duty vehicles on the core trans-European transport network or parts of it, in accordance with Article 7(4).deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 8 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7aa – paragraph 3
3. The user charges referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall be varied in accordance with Article7ga and according to the Euro emission class. In addition, Member States shall set user charges, including administrative costs, for the heavy-duty vehicles concerned, at a level that does not exceed the maximum rates laid down in Annex II.deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 9 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7aa – paragraph 4
4. Member States establishing the combined charging scheme shall carry out an impact assessment or analysis explaining and justifying its introduction which shall be notified to the Commission at least six months before its introduction.;deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 10 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 2
2. The costs taken into account shall relate to the network or the part of the network on which infrastructure charges for heavy-duty vehicles are levied and to the vehicles that are subject to those charges. Member States may choose to recover only a percentage of those costs.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 11 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
1999/62 EC
Article 7ca – paragraph 1
1. When levying an external-cost charge for air or noise pollution, Member States shall take into account the costs relating to the network or the part of the network on which that charge is levied and the vehicles that are subject to that charge. Revenues generated from external-cost charges, or the equivalent in financial value of those revenues, shall be used to address the problem of air or noise pollution.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 12 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7ca – paragraph 3
3. From … [4 years after the date of entry into force of this amending Directive], Member States shall apply an external-cost charge for traffic-based air and noise pollution to heavy-duty vehicles on the tolled network referred to in Article 7(1).
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 13 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7ca – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
4. Member States may assess the possibility ofshall applying an external-cost charge for CO2 emissions and for air pollution or discounts, related to those emissions, where concession tolls are not varied in accordance with Articles 7g and 7ga for heavy-duty vehicles, and in accordance with Article 7gb for light-duty vehicles.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 14 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7ca – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The result of that optional assessment, including a justification of the reason why the external-cost charge or discount is not applied, shall be notified to the Commission.deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 15 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7cb – paragraph 3
3. An external-cost charge for CO2 emissions may be combined with an infrastructure charge that has been varied in accordance with Article 7ga.deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 16 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
(b) the mark-up does not exceed 125 % of the weighted average infrastructure charge calculated in accordance with Article 7b(1) and Article 7e of this Directive, except where the revenue generated is invested in cross-border sections of a core network corridor identified in accordance with Chapter IV of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013, in which case the mark-up may not exceed 25 % of that weighted average infrastructure charge, or, where two or more Member States apply a mark-up in the same corridor, in which case, upon agreement of all Member States which are part of that corridor and which neighbour the Member States in the territory of which the section of the corridor to which a mark-up is to be applied falls, that mark- up may exceed 25 % but may not exceed 50 % of that weighted average infrastructure charge;
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 18 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7f – paragraph 2
2. In the case of a new cross-border project, a mark-up may only be added if all Member States involved in the project agree.deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 20 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7ga – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. Member States shall vary infrastructure charges and userexternal cost charges for heavy-duty vehicles in accordance with this Article.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 21 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7ga – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall apply that variation to the sub-groups of heavy-duty vehicles covered by Article 2(1), points (a) to (d), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1242, at the latest two years after the publication of the reference CO2 emissions for those vehicle sub-groups in the implementing acts adopted in accordance with Article 11(1) of that Regulation. That variation according to sub-groups of heavy-duty vehicles shall be replaced until 2025 by a variation which is based on the common Union methodology for the assessment and the consistent data reporting of the full life-cycle CO2 emissions of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles that are placed on the Union, in accordance with Article 10 (7) of Regulation (EU) 2019/631.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 22 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7ga – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 5
Without prejudice to the reduction of rates provided for in paragraph 3, Member States may provide for reduced rates of infrastructure or user charges, or exemptions to pay infrastructureexternal costs or user charges for zero emission vehicles of any vehicle group from … [the date of entry into force of this amending Directive] until 31 December 2025. From 1 January 2026, such reductions shall be limited to 75 % compared to the charge applicable to CO2 emission class 1, as defined in paragraph 2.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 23 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7ga – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Where the infrastructure charge or the user charge is also varied according to the Euro emission class, the reductions referred to in the first subparagraph shall apply as compared to the charge applied to the strictest Euro emission standards.deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 24 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
11. The application of the variation of charges based on CO2 emissions referred to in this Article shall not be mandatorybe phased out at the same time as wheren another Union road transport fuel carbon-pricing measure appliesis entering into force.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 25 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7gb – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – introductry part
Without prejudice to paragraph 2 of this Article, lower rates of tollexternal costs and user charges shall apply for passenger cars, minibuses and light commercial vehicles that meet both of the following conditions:
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 26 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7gb – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. From 1 January 2026, where technically practicable, Member States shall vary the tollexternal costs and the annual rate of the user charges for vans and minibuses according to the environmental performance of the vehicle, in accordance with the rules set out in Annex VII. For that purpose, the provisions of the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall be indicative.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 27 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7gb – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
However, Member States may choose to apply reductions to zero-emission vehicles only, without applying any variation to other vehicles and without notifying the Commission.deleted
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 28 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 Directives 1999/62/EC
3. Subject to the conditions set out in paragraphs 1 and 2, Member States mayshall take into account an improvement in the environmental performance of the vehicle which is linked to that vehicle's conversion to alternative fuels.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 29 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13 – point b
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 7i – paragraph 2a
2a. Member States may provide for discounts or reductions in the infrastructureof tolls or user charges for passenger cars for frequent users, in particular in areas in which settlement is dispersed and on the outskirts of cities. Reduction in revenues due to discount granted to frequent users shall not be imposed on less frequent users.;
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 30 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. By … [31 years after the entry into force of this amending directive], and every five1 years thereafter, Member States shall make public in aggregate form a report on tolls and user charges levied on their territory.
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 31 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) the variation of infrastructureexternal cost charges or user charges according to the category of vehicle and the type of heavy- duty vehicle;
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 32 #
Barbara THALER
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directives 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) the variation of infrastructureexternal cost charges or user charges according to the environmental performance of vehicles, pursuant to Article 7g, 7ga or 7gb;
2021/12/15
Committee: TRAN
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