3 Amendments of Philippe OLIVIER related to 2023/0052(COD)
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The responsibilities and competences of national contact points should be defined to ensure that they seamlessly cooperate with other authorities involved in the investigation of the road- safety-related traffic offences which fall within the scope of this Directive. National contact points should always be available for such authorities and answer their requests within reasonable time. This should be the case regardless of the nature of the offence or the legal status of the authority, and in particular regardless of whether the authority has national or subnational or local competence. That is especially true in connection with offences involving posted drivers travelling from one Member State to another and carrying out more road cabotage activities who, in many instances, commit serious offences in terms of exceeding statutory driving time, thereby posing an additional road safety risk.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The Member State of the offence should also be allowed to conduct automated searches in vehicle registers to retrieve data on end users of vehicles where such information is already available. This applies in particular to road haulage vehicles, including light commercial vehicles (LCVs) used to transport goods which are not subject to heavy goods vehicle legislation and which in most instances are vehicles operated by multiple third parties in often complex combinations of cascade subcontracting and vehicle leasing that involve a number of firms or branches located in different countries and employing drivers of different nationalities. Furthermore, a data retention period should be established as regards the identity of the previous owners, holders and end users of the vehicles to provide authorities with the appropriate information they need for the investigation.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Where Union legislation or national law of Member States explicitly provides access to or the possibility to exchange information from other national or Union databases for the purposes of Directive (EU) 2015/413, Member States should have the possibility to exchange information by involving such databases, while respecting the fundamental rights of non-resident drivers. In the case of drivers working in international haulage within the EU, this would make it possible to step up action to combat ‘posted worker’ benefit fraud and identify instances of repeat or persistent offences, thus making for more effective tracking and reporting of hauliers and drivers who fail to comply with the Mobility Package rules now in force.