May, 2023
Occasional passenger transport. The Commission’s proposals as regards minimum requirements on breaks and rest periods
The proposal aims to ensure a more flexible distribution of breaks and rest periods and to lay down equal treatment between international and domestic occasional passenger transport operations, in order to guarantee efficient and high-quality services and to improve working and driving conditions for drivers
Road transport. The Court of Justice rules on the national legislation permitting the transfer of criminal liability for serious infringements regarding the driving time and rest periods of drivers
Article 22 of Regulation 1071/2009 precludes a national law pursuant to which a person that incurs criminal responsibility for infringements committed within a road transport undertaking and whose conduct is taken into account for the purpose of assessing the good repute of that undertaking may designate a person as an agent responsible for compliance with the provisions of European law concerning the driving time and rest periods of drivers, thereby transferring to that person criminal responsibility for infringements of those provisions, where the national law does not permit those infringements to be taken into account for the purpose of assessing whether that undertaking meets the requirement of good repute