6 Amendments of Anne E. JENSEN related to 2007/0098(COD)
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Fair competition and road transport that is fully compliant with the rules call for a uniform level of monitoring by Member States. The national authorities responsible for monitoring undertakings and the validity of their authorisations have a crucial role to play in this respect, and it is appropriate to ensure that they take suitable measures if necessary, in particular in the most serious cases by suspending or withdrawing authorisations, or declaring as unsuitable transport managers who are negligent or act in bad faith. This must be preceded by a consideration of the measure in the light of the proportionality principle. An undertaking should, however, be warned in advance and should have a reasonable period of time within which to rectify the situation before incurring such sanctions.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) The Commission should, in particular, be authorised to draw up a list of categories, types and degrees of seriousness of serious infringements which may under certain circumstances leading to the loss of the requisite good repute of road transport operators, to adapt to technical progress the Annex to this Regulation concerning the knowledge to be taken into consideration for the recognition of professional competence by the Member States and the Annex concerning the model certificate of professional competence, and to draw up the list of maximum infringements entailing thewhich may lead the authorities, under certain circumstances, and observing proportionality with regard to the nature of the infringement, to consider suspensionding or withdrawal ofing the authorisation to pursue the occupation or issuing a declaration of unsuitability. Since the measures in question are of general scope and are designed to amend non- essential elements of this Regulation or to supplement it by the addition of new non- essential elements, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC. On the grounds of efficiency, the time limits normally applicable in the context of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny should be shortened for the updating of the model certificate of professional competence.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) To encourage coach tours specifically for tourists on low incomes and promote tourism in the regions there is a need to re-introduce the 12-day rule for round trips by coach (see paragraph 78 of Parliament’s Resolution of 29 November 2007). For this reason Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006, on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport, should be extended accordingly.
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22
Article 22
Undertakings which can provide proof that, before certain dates, they were authorised in a Member State to engage in the occupation of road haulage operator or road passenger transport operator in national or international transport shall be exempted from providing proof that they have the professional competence referred to in Article 3(d) until 1 January 2012. Those dates are as follows: a) 1 January 1975 for Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and the United Kingdom b)1 January 1981 for Greece, c) 1 January 1983 for Spain and Portugal, d) 3 October 1989 for the territory of the former German Democratic Republic, e) 1 January 1995 for Austria, Finland and Sweden, and natural persons who, can provide proof of at least 15 years’ practical experience in a transport undertaking in a Member State, shall be exempted from the examination required under Article 8 for obtaining a certificate of professional competence.
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23
Article 23
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 a (new)
Article 29 a (new)
Article 29a The following paragraph shall be inserted in Article 8 of Regulation (EG) No 561/2006: (6a) By way of derogation from the above, it shall be permissible in the case of cross- frontier occasional transport to allow the weekly rest period to begin no later than at the end of twelve 24-hour periods after the previous weekly rest period. In such cases two regular, or one regular and one reduced, weekly rest periods shall be granted consecutively. The total accumulated driving time during these twelve 24-hour periods may not exceed 90 hours.