On 29 November 2022, the Commission decided to send letters of formal notice to several Member States for failing to notify national measures transposing European directives on road safety into national law, whose deadline expired on 27 September 2022. 

More particularly, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Cyprus, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Austria, Poland and Finland failed to notify national measures fully transposing Directive (EU) 2021/1716, which aimsat improving road safety by amending Directive 2014/47/EU establishing minimum requirements for a regime of technical roadside inspections of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating within the territory of the Member States.

Belgium, Bulgaria, Ireland, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal and Finland, instead, failed to notify national measures fully transposing Directive (EU) 2021/1717, which amends Directive 2014/45/EU on periodic roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers by updating certain vehicle category designations and adding “eCall”, an in-vehicle emergency call to 112 made either automatically by means of the activation of in-vehicle sensors or manually, which carries a minimum set of data and establishes an audio channel between the vehicle and the eCall PSAP via public mobile wireless communications networks, to the list of items which should be subject to the tests.

Member States will now have two months to address the Commission’s concerns, after which the latter may decide to send a reasoned opinion.

Marco Stillo