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Road
What do we want to achieve ?
The aim of the Community’s land transport policy is to promote sustainable mobility that is efficient, safe and with reduced negative effects on the environment.
The Community policy objectives for road transport are therefore to promote efficient road freight and passengers transport services, to create fair conditions for competition, to promote and harmonise safer and more environmental friendly technical standards, to ensure a minimum fiscal and social harmonisation and to make sure that the rules in road transport are effectively applied without discrimination.
The existing legislation applying to road transport services establishes common rules on access to the market and to the profession, sets minimal standards for working time, driving and rest periods (including enforcement and the use of tachograph), sets minimal annual vehicle taxes and common rules for tolls and user charges.
The most recent developments in the road transport market are described in the Road transport vademecum 
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Focus on...
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
MARCO POLO
Programme for projects which avoid freight transport on the roads or shift it to sea, rail and inland waterways
Enterprise and Industry: Automotive
Promote and harmonise safer and more environmental friendly technical standards
Daily news
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What’s new
- 29/01/2010 - Annual Report on Alpine Traffic Observatory
- 26/01/2010 - According to a new JRC report the internalisation of external cost can reduce road CO2 emission by 8% while having only a modest impact on international road haulage
- 15/01/2010 - Recommendation praising Member States to use the TACHOnet system to exchange information on truck and coach drivers when checking social road transport rules adopted
- 23/12/2009 - Public consultation on the "Revision of the Community legislation on the recording equipment in road transport (tachographs)" (deadline: 01/03/2010)
- 22/12/2009 - Commission adapts to technical progress tachographs used in trucks and coaches to check driving time
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