Response to the answer to Written Question E-014003/2015 concerning enforcement of Directive 2006/22/EC on road transport
8.6.2016
Question for written answer E-004713-16
to the Commission
Rule 130
Wim van de Camp (PPE)
The Commission states that directive 2006/22/EC[1] lays down minimum requirements for checking compliance solely with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 and Regulation (EU) No 165/2014. It furthermore makes reference to a common classification of serious infringements (also known as the ERRU register).
In April 2016 — the most recent instance — a vehicle was again impounded in Italy, involving a Dutch self-employed driver (i.e. a person running a one-man business with a single lorry) whose vehicle was impounded for three months because his name had been omitted, as the haulier, on a number of the 14 CMR consignment notes in total. That is indeed an offence; but the driver is now sitting at home, with no work, and building up a lot of debt because of lost income.
In its answer to Written Question E-014003/2015, the Commission undertook to inquire about the Italian system of penalties and the proportionality of penalties in relation to the seriousness of infringements.
What further action will the Commission take to raise what is continuing disproportionality of penalties with the Italian Government? How does the Commission propose to combat this, including in other countries?
- [1] OJ L 102, 11.4.2006, p. 35-44.