Browsing Category road transport
Insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles. The Court of Justice rules on the national legislation providing for the automatic compensation of certain victims of a road accident and on the notion of “vehicle”
The notion of “vehicle”, within the meaning of Point 1 of Article 1 of Directive 2009/103/EC, does not encompass a bicycle whose electric motor provides pedal assistance only and which is equipped with a function allowing the bicycle to accelerate to a speed of 20 km/h without pedalling, a function which may however be activated only after the use of muscular power
The Court of Justice rules on the transport of empty containers before loading or after unloading of goods in the context of combined transport
The road transport of empty containers between a container terminal and a point where the goods are loaded or unloaded falls within the concept of “combined transport”, so that it benefits from the liberalised scheme laid down for initial and/or final road transport legs which form an integral part of a combined transport operation and which are exempt from the application of the provisions relating to cabotage laid down by Regulation No 1072/2009
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