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Activities of Isabel GARCÍA MUÑOZ related to 2023/0155(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Minimum requirements on minimum breaks and daily and weekly rest periods in the occasional passenger transport sector (short presentation)
2023/12/11
Dossiers: 2023/0155(COD)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 as regards minimum requirements on minimum breaks and daily and weekly rest periods in the occasional passenger transport sector
2023/11/21
Committee: TRAN
Dossiers: 2023/0155(COD)
Documents: PDF(253 KB) DOC(97 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Henna VIRKKUNEN', 'mepid': 124726}]

Amendments (12)

Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) More flexible rules in the scheduling of the breaks and rest periods of drivers engaged in occasional road passenger transport services should in no way jeopardise the safety of drivers, road safety, increase the level of fatigue of drivers or lead to a deterioration in working conditions. Such flexibility should therefore not alter the current rules on the total minimum breaks, on maximum driving periods per day and per week and, on the maximum fortnightly driving time and on maximum working time.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) More flexibility in the scheduling of breaks for drivers engaged in occasional road passenger transport services should not prevent those drivers fromcause in any way more fatigue or stress for drivers and should ensure they takinge breaks of the minimum duration necessary to enable them to rest properlyget proper and sufficient rests. Therefore, it is appropriate to set a minimum duration for each break. Therefore, d, which should not prevent drivers from having longer breaks than the minimum required duration. Drivers engaged in occasional road passenger transport services should be allowed to decide to split their obligatory break into three separate breaks of at least 1520 minutes each, in addition to the other possibility of splitting a break.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) To ensure that greater flexibility in the scheduling of rest periods of drivers engaged in occasional road passenger transport services is not abused, it is essential to clearly delimit the scope of such flexibility and also to provide for appropriate checks by the competent national authorities as well as the European Labour Authority (ELA). Drivers should therefore be able to postpone the start of their daily rest periods for a maximum period of 1 or 2 hours, in cases where the driving period for that day has not exceeded 5 or 7 hours respectively, and should postpone the start only when carrying out journeys of 8 days or longer. Such flexibility should not jeopardise road safety and should be further limited to only one of each derogation during the period of the tour. It should be also possible to counter check such circumstances with a printout from the recording equipment or the duty roster, in addition to the tachograph recordsWith a view to effective and efficient enforcement and in order to counter check such circumstances, a digital journey form should be electronically registered prior to the start of the journey in addition to the tachograph records and the printout from the recording equipment or the duty roster.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) Limiting the possibility to postpone the weekly rest period for up to 12 consecutive 24-hour periods exclusively to occasional international passenger services has a negative impact in terms of equal treatment and undistorted and fair competition between operators, especially small and medium enterprises. Occasional national passenger services might as well provide their services under the same conditions as occasional international passenger services in terms of the distance travelled or the duration or services rendered to passengers. Occasional national passenger services should therefore also benefit from such possibility.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) In order to ensure effective and efficient enforcement, improved control measures and requirements should be established taking full advantage of digital tools. To allow for checks on the derogation to postpone the daily rest period and the possibility to postpone the weekly rest period for up to 12 consecutive 24 hour periods, a digital journey form should be electronically registered prior to the start of the journey in addition to the tachograph records and the printout from the recording equipment or the duty roster. The digital forms should be accessible in real time during road side checks and be solely used for controls of compliance and enforcement. For this purpose the Commission should develop a multilingual interface on the basis of the IMI system to allow operators to upload their digital journey forms.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 b (new)
(10b) Social partners at Union and national level can play an essential role in improving the enforcement of existing regulations on driving and working time of road transport workers, including drivers of occasional road passenger services. Therefore, they should be invited to undertake joint actions, develop guidelines and issue recommendations in this regard.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 c (new)
(10c) To guarantee efficient and high- quality occasional passenger transport services and improve working and driving conditions for drivers, the Commission should carry out an assessment report two years after the adoption of these new rules in order to study their social impacts as well as to evaluate the application of enforcement rules. When relevant, the Commission should consider proposing new measures.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation 2006/561/EC
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
For aBy way of derogation of paragraph 1, when the driver engaged in an occasional passenger service the break referred to in the first paragraph may also bdecides to take three breaks, each of these rseplaced by three breaks ofarated breaks should be at least 15of 20 minutes each, distributed over the driving period referred to in the first paragraph, in such a way as to comply with the first paragraph.;
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Regulation 2006/561/EC
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) postponing the daily rest period by at most 2 hours, provided that the total accumulated driving time for that day has not exceeded 5 hours.deleted
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Regulation 2006/561/EC
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a – subparagraph 2
Each of tThe derogations referred to in the first subparagraph, points (a) and (b), may be used only once during the journey referred to in the first subparagraph.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Regulation 2006/561/EC
Article 8 – paragraph 6 a – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the service lasts at least 24 consecutive hours;.deleted
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Regulation 2006/561/EC
Article 8 – paragraph 6 a – subparagraph 1 – point a (new)
(aa) a digital journey form with the required information set out in the Regulation (EC) 1073/2009 has been electronically registered prior to the start of the journey.
2023/09/26
Committee: TRAN