Directive 2019/520 - Interoperability of electronic road toll systems and facilitating cross-border exchange of information on the failure to pay road fees in the Union (recast) - Main contents
Please note
This page contains a limited version of this dossier in the EU Monitor.
Contents
official title
Directive (EU) 2019/520 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 on the interoperability of electronic road toll systems and facilitating cross-border exchange of information on the failure to pay road fees in the Union (recast) (Text with EEA relevance.)| Legal instrument | Directive |
|---|---|
| Number legal act | Directive 2019/520 |
| Original proposal | COM(2017)280  |
| CELEX number i | 32019L0520 |
| Document | 19-03-2019; Date of signature |
|---|---|
| Publication in Official Journal | 29-03-2019; OJ L 91 p. 45-76 |
| Signature | 19-03-2019 |
| Effect | 18-04-2019; Entry into force Date pub. +20 See Art 34 |
| Deadline | 19-10-2019; At the latest See Art 10.3 Art 14.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 19.5 19-10-2021; See Art 21.4 19-04-2023; See Art 26 And 28.1 17-04-2024; See Art 30.2 |
| End of validity | 31-12-9999 |
| Transposition | 19-10-2021; Adoption See Art 32.1 19-10-2021; Application See Art 32.1 |
29.3.2019 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
L 91/45 |
DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/520 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 19 March 2019
on the interoperability of electronic road toll systems and facilitating cross-border exchange of information on the failure to pay road fees in the Union
(recast)
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91(1) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (2),
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (3),
Whereas:
(1) |
Directive 2004/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (4) has been substantially amended. Since further amendments are to be made, that Directive should be recast in the interests of clarity. |
(2) |
It is desirable to achieve widespread deployment of electronic road toll systems in the Member States and in the neighbouring countries, and to have, as far as possible, reliable, user friendly, and cost-efficient systems suited to the future development of road-charging policy at Union level and to future technical developments. Therefore, it is necessary to make electronic road toll systems interoperable to reduce the cost of, and the burdens linked to, the payment of tolls across the Union. |
(3) |
Interoperable electronic road toll systems contribute to achieving the objectives laid down by Union law on road tolls. |
(4) |
The lack of interoperability is a significant problem in electronic road toll systems where the road fee due is linked to the distance covered by the vehicle (distance-based tolls) or to the vehicle passing a specific point (for example, cordon pricing). The provisions regarding the interoperability of electronic road toll systems should therefore apply only to those systems and should not apply to systems where the road fee due is linked to the time spent by the vehicle on the tolled infrastructure (for example, time-based systems such as vignettes). |
(5) |
Cross-border enforcement of the obligation to pay road fees in the Union is a significant problem in all kind of systems, whether distance-based, cordon-based or time-based, electronic or manual. To deal with the problem of cross-border enforcement following a failure to pay a road fee, the provisions regarding the cross-border exchange of information should therefore apply to all those systems. |
(6) |
In national law, the offence of failing to pay a road fee can be classified as an administrative offence or as a criminal offence. This Directive should apply regardless of the classification of the offence. |
(7) |
Due to the lack of consistent classification across the Union, and their indirect link to the use of the infrastructure, parking fees should be left outside the scope of this Directive. |
(8) |
The interoperability of electronic road toll systems requires harmonisation of the technology used and of the interfaces between interoperability constituents. |
(9) |
The harmonisation of technologies and interfaces should be supported by the development and maintenance of appropriate open and public standards, available on a non-discriminatory basis to all system suppliers. |
(10) |
For the purpose of covering, with their on-board equipment (OBE), the required communication technologies, European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) providers should be allowed to make use of, and link to, other hardware and software systems... |
More
This text has been adopted from EUR-Lex.
This dossier is compiled each night drawing from aforementioned sources through automated processes. We have invested a great deal in optimising the programming underlying these processes. However, we cannot guarantee the sources we draw our information from nor the resulting dossier are without fault.
This page is also available in a full version containing the legal context, de Europese rechtsgrond, other dossiers related to the dossier at hand, the related cases of the European Court of Justice and finally consultations relevant to the dossier at hand.
The full version is available for registered users of the EU Monitor by ANP and PDC Informatie Architectuur.
The EU Monitor enables its users to keep track of the European process of lawmaking, focusing on the relevant dossiers. It automatically signals developments in your chosen topics of interest. Apologies to unregistered users, we can no longer add new users.This service will discontinue in the near future.