Activities of Jaromír KOHLÍČEK related to 2008/0147(COD)
Plenary speeches (2)
Charging of heavy goods vehicles (debate)
Charging of heavy goods vehicles (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 30 #
Council position – amending act
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The objective of reducing the negative impacts of transport should be achieved in such a way as to avoid disproportionate obstacles to the freedom of movement in the interest of sound economic growth, the proper functioning of the internal market and territorial cohesion. It should also be emphasised that the principle of internalising external costs is the equivalent of a management instrument and should therefore be used to encourage road users and the related industrial sectors to exploit and expand their respective capabilities in the area of environmentally-friendly transport, for example by means of changes in driving behaviour or further technological development. It is vital that ways and means should be found of reducing the damage caused by road transport, rather than simply using the resulting revenue to cover the relevant costs.
Amendment 38 #
Council position – amending act
Recital 25
Recital 25
Amendment 46 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
.Article 7 c – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
.Article 7 c – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. The external-cost charge may be related to the cost of traffic-based air pollution. On road sections crossing areas with a concentration of population exposed to road traffic-based noise pollution, the external-cost charge may include the cost of traffic-based noise pollution. The external-cost charge shall vary and be set in accordance with the minimum requirements and the methods as specified in Annex IIIa and shall respect the maximum values set out in Annex IIIb.
Amendment 49 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 c – paragraph 3
Article 7 c – paragraph 3
3. The external-cost charge related to traffic-based air pollution shall not apply to vehicles which comply with the most stringent EURO emission standards until fourtwo years after the dates of application laid down in the rules which introduced those standards.
Amendment 54 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 f – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 - introductory part
Article 7 f – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 - introductory part
1. In exceptional cases concerning infrastructure in mountainous regions and conurbations, and after informing the Commission, a toll mark-up may be added to the infrastructure charge levied on specific road sections which are subject to acute congestion, or the use of which by vehicles is the cause of significant environmental damage, on condition that:
Amendment 60 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 f – paragraph 5
Article 7 f – paragraph 5
5. The amount of the mark-up shall be deducted from the amount of the external-cost charge calculated in accordance with Article 7c, except for vehicles of EURO emission classes 0, I, II, III and IV.
Amendment 74 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 h – paragraph 3 – point (d a) (new)
Article 7 h – paragraph 3 – point (d a) (new)
(da) a specific plan indicating how additional revenue from external cost charges is to be used to reduce the negative impacts of transport.
Amendment 77 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 j – paragraph 3
Article 7 j – paragraph 3
3. If a Member State levies a toll on a vehicle, the total amount of the toll, the amount of the infrastructure charge orand the amount of the external-cost charge shall be indicated in a receipt provided to the haulier, as far as possible by electronic means.
Amendment 89 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point (c a) (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point (c a) (new)
(ca) the effect of the external cost charge or infrastructure charge on modal shift, on the optimisation of road transport and on the environment, and the effect of the external cost charge on the external costs which the Member State is seeking to cover by means of the charge.
Amendment 92 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point (c b) (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point (c b) (new)
(cb) the impact of the Directive on traffic flows concerning both the TEN-T network concerned and the alternative routes and the relevant consequences on implemented modal shift.
Amendment 95 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. By …, at the latest, the Commission shall present a report that summarises the other measures, such as regulatory policies, taken to internalise or reduce o the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation and effects of this Directive, in particular as regards the effectiveness of the provisions on the recovery of traffic-based pollution and noise and on the inclusion of vehicles of more than 3.5 and less than 12 tonnes. The report shall also assess: (a) the relevance of integrating other external costs related to environment, noise and health from all transport modes, including the legal basis and maximum values used. In order to ensure fair intermodal competition while gradually charging the external costs of all transport modes, it shall include a timetable of in the calculation of tolls, especially the cost of CO2 emissions should the definition of a common fuel tax element related to climate change have not yielded satisfactory results, the cost of accidents and the cost of biodiversity loss; (b) the relevance of extending the scope of this Directive to other categories of vehicles; (c) the possibility of adopting a revised classification of vehicles for the purposes of varying tolls taking into account the average impact on the environment, congestion and infrastructure, their CO2 and energy performance, and the practical and economic feasibility of levying and enforcing tolls; (d) the technical and economic feasibility of introducing on the main inter-urban roads minimum distance-based charges. The report shall identify the possible types of road sections to be charged, the possible ways of levying and enforcing in a cost-effective way such charges and a common simple method to set the minimum rates; (e) the technical and economic feasibility of gradually abolishing time-based charging systems and introducing distance-based systems and the need to maintain a derogation for Member States with external borders with third countries to continue to apply time-based charging systems to heavy goods vehicles queuing at border-crossing points; and (f) the need for a proposal for a scheme to ensure the consistent and simultaneous internalisation of external costs for all other measures which remain to be taken to address the modes of transport and/or theodes of transport; (g) the options and propose concrete steps on how best to tackle the effects of climate change within the framework of this Directive; (h) the options and propose concrete steps on how best to tackle the need to drastically reduce the dependency on oil; The report shall be accompanied by an assessment of the progress of the internalisation of external- cost elements not taken is for all modes of transport and by a proposal to the European Parliamento account yet. nd the Council for further revision of this Directive.