Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the application by the Member States of Directive 2000/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 June 2000 on the technical roadside inspection of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating in the Community. Reporting period 2011-2012

In the interest of road safety, environmental protection and fair competition, European legislation provides for a set of measures to ensure that commercial vehicles on European roads are in good condition. These include:

- rules on admission to the occupation, which require transport operators to have sufficient financial capacity to ensure the proper maintenance of vehicles (Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009);

- periodic roadworthiness tests of vehicles, to be carried out in Member States for vehicles registered on their territory, with a minimum frequency laid down at European level (Directive 2009/40/EC);

- technical roadside inspections — the subject of this report — ensuring that commercial vehicles are only used if they are maintained such as to ensure a high level of technical roadworthiness (Directive 2000/30/EC).

Under Directive 2000/30/EC, commercial vehicles and their trailers and semi-trailers circulating on the territories of the Member States are subject to technical roadside inspections of their roadworthiness, in order to improve road safety and protect the environment. Article 6 of the Directive provides that, every two years, Member States should provide the Commission with data collected for the previous two years relating to the number of commercial vehicles checked, grouped into seven categories as per the Directive and further grouped by country of registration; the items checked; and the deficiencies discovered.

On 3 April 2014, the European Parliament and the Council revised the Directive on technical roadside inspection through Directive 2014/47/EU. The revised version of the Directive introduces inter alia an EU-wide target for the number of technical roadside inspections to be carried out. To allow for the smooth implementation of this new requirement when it comes into force in 2018, this report provides information relating to the future EU-wide target of 5% of registered heavy commercial vehicles to be checked.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2014)569: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:569:FIN

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