Activites

• 2002/03/19 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2002/484
  • OJ L 076 19.03.2002, p. 0001-0006
• 2002/03/01 Final act signed
• 2002/03/01 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2002/01/17 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T5-0009/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the resolution by Mr Rijk van DAM (EDD, NL) which approves the common position.�

• 2001/12/19 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A5-0469/2001
• 2001/10/25 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• #2377
• 2001/10/23 Council Meeting
  • 10353/1/2001 summary

    The Council shared the Commission's view that the absence of a similar uniform document certifying that the driver of a vehicle engaged in the carriage of goods subject to Community authorisation is legally employed in the territory of a Member State creates major problems of control for Member States and encourages recourse to the unlawful employment of drivers. However, the Council restricted the scope of the Regulation to drivers who are nationals of non-Member countries. Its basis for doing so was the survey carried out by the Commission in 1999, which revealed that drivers employed unlawfully to drive Community vehicles in international carriage operations often come from non-member countries and often work in poor conditions and are underpaid. Compared to the Commission's amended proposal, the Council's common position therefore provides that: - only drivers who are nationals of non-member countries must hold a driver attestation; - it will be decided subsequently, on the basis of an assessment by the Commission, whether or not the Regulation should be extended. The Council does not believe that this change in scope creates any discrimination between drivers of non-member countries and drivers who are Community nationals such as would be incompatible with the Europe Agreements. The Council's common position does not concern working conditions. The administrative burden on Member States is also eased. The Council's common position also provides for: - the introduction of a stricter control procedure, namely a yearly check of at least 20% of an undertaking's attestations; - an amendment relating to cabotage, making it compulsory for drivers who are nationals of non-member countries to hold a driver attestation in order to carry out cabotage operations. One amendment made by the Parliament is accepted by the Council. This adds the driving licence and social security numbers to the personal information relating to the driver. For practical reasons the Regulation is to apply one year after its entry into force.�

• 2001/07/05 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(2001)0373 summary

    Of the seven amendments adopted by the Parliament, the Commission agreed to accept one in full and one in part. Six months after entry into force of this measure it will apply to nationals of non-member countries and to all drivers after thirty months. During the first two years of its application, the scope of the regulation will be limited to drivers who are nationals of non-member countries in order to ease the administrative burden. Of the amendments not accepted, the Commission considered it inconsistent to distinguish between drivers of different nationalities in the recitals, given the scope of the measure after two years. �

  • DG ['Energy and Transport'],
• 2001/05/16 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0262/2001 summary

    The European Parliament approved the report by Mr Rijk Van DAM (EDD, NL) with amendments calling for the directive to be aimed mainly (but not exclusively) at drivers from third countries. The House believes that, since the transport labour market is distorted mainly by drivers from third countries, the measures should apply immediately to third-country nationals. (Please refer to the previous document).�

• 2001/05/15 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2001/04/25 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0151/2001
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• 2000/12/20 Council Meeting
• 2000/12/11 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2000/11/22 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2000)0751 summary

    PURPOSE : to introduce a uniform Driver Attestation. CONTENT : the aim of this proposal is to amend Regulation 881/92/EEC in order to introduce a uniform document attesting that the driver of a vehicle engaged in international carriage of goods is entitled to drive that vehicle on behalf of the haulier. The Commission already announced this proposed amendment in its communication entitled "Towards a safer and more competitive high-quality road transport system in the Community". The proposal aims to ensure that the regularity of the employment status of the driver of a Community authorisation, can be checked efficiently by inspecting officers of all Member States by the introduction of a uniform document, the Driver Attestation, at Community level. The Regulation already makes international carriage by road subject to Community authorisation. The proposed amendment requires that the driver of the vehicle engaged in international carriage is in possession of a Driver attestation in addition to the Community authorisation. However, if the driver is identical with the holder of the Community authorisation, the case of so called "owner driver", community authorisation alone shall suffice. In doing so, the scope of the Driver attestation is clearly and unambiguously defined. Enforcement will be simple, as checks on international transport for compliance with the Regulation are well established. Lastly, the Driver attestation will simply certify that the relevant legisation and provisions of that Member State governing the employment of drivers have been repected, thus leaving details of implementation to a very large extent to the discretion of each Member State. Introduction of the Driver attestation at Community level can thus be swift since no harmonisation of social legislation or of provisions relating to the employment of third-country nationals is required.�

  • DG ['Energy and Transport'],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2000)0751
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0151/2001
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0262/2001
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(2001)0373
• Council position published: 10353/1/2001
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0469/2001
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0009/2002
• : Regulation 2002/484
• : OJ L 076 19.03.2002, p. 0001-0006

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)