greenhouse gas emissions: According to the Commission, in 2050 CO2 emissions from transport will be one third higher than their 1990 level if no measures are taken; however, the EU must reduce CO2 emissions [...] connected to the rail network. - “Benchmarks” (selection): For distances of more than 300 km, 30% of road freight should shift to other transport modes such as railway or shipping by 2030 and 50% by 2050 [...] Maritime Transport Space without Barriers [Communication COM(2009) 10, see CEP Policy Brief] to a “Blue Belt” of free maritime movement around Europe, e.g. by the omission of reporting formalities. - Inland
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Regions, Towards a European road safety area: policy orientations on road safety 2011-2020, COM(2010) 389 final http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/pdf/road_safety_citizen/road_safety_citizen_1 00924_en [...] EN EN • DEKRA Road Safety Report 2008 – Strategies for preventing accidents on Europe's roads, • DEKRA Road Safety Report on Trucks 2009, • DEKRA Motorcycle road safety report 2010, [...] other aspects of road transport".13 On 20 July 2010 the European Commission adopted policy orientations on road safety14. To reach the announced target (i.e. reducing the number of road fatalities by 50%
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Regions, Towards a European road safety area: policy orientations on road safety 2011-2020, COM(2010) 389 final http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/pdf/road_safety_citizen/road_safety_citizen_1 00924_en [...] EN EN • DEKRA Road Safety Report 2008 – Strategies for preventing accidents on Europe's roads, • DEKRA Road Safety Report on Trucks 2009, • DEKRA Motorcycle road safety report 2010, [...] other aspects of road transport".13 On 20 July 2010 the European Commission adopted policy orientations on road safety14. To reach the announced target (i.e. reducing the number of road fatalities by 50%
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stakeholders, road control bodies and road safety stakeholders. Those consultations produced a consensus on targets for reducing pollution and fuel consumption and for improving road safety, and an [...] short sea shipping, regardless of the lengths of the initial and terminal road journeys. The initial road journey and the terminal road journey for an operation using intra- European short sea shipping takes [...] vehicles and their energy efficiency, while continuing to improve road safety, and within the limits imposed by the geometry of road infrastructures. For example, some studies3 show that adding flaps
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Implementation of Road Cabotage" (European Parliament 2013); "Road Haulage Charges and Taxes. Summary analysis and data tables 1998-2012" (OECD 2013); "Social and Working Conditions of Road Transport Hauliers" [...] 2.1. Road Haulage Activity Road freight transport is the main inland transport mode in the EU, accounting for over 70% of all inland transport activity, as shown in Figure 1. The share of road in total [...] State of unloading. One fifth is carried out by vehicles which are registered in a third country (i.e. cross-trade), up from around one eighth in 2004. The share of cross-trade in all road freight transport
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to a survey by UK trade magazine Auto Trader, one in five UK owners have bought from a car supermarket, and one in three would consider buying from one in the future24. In theory, leasing companies [...] direct and immediate risk to road safety. The vehicle should not be used on the road under any circumstances. Note: A vehicle having defects falling into more than one defect group is classified according [...] Citizenship Report4 as one of the main obstacles faced by citizens when exercising their rights under EU law in their daily lives. Moreover, they were also highlighted as one of the 20 main concerns
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drivers in the road haulage and passenger transport sector, in order to - increase road safety, - improve working conditions for drivers and - ensure a level playing-field between the road transport companies [...] vehicles for the carriage of goods by road with a permitted total weight (incl. payload) over 3.5 tonnes and - vehicles for the carriage of more than nine people by road (incl. driver). – Exempt are all [...] including those over 7.5 tonnes. ► Until now, drivers had to maintain two regular WRPs or one regular and one reduced WRP within two weeks. Now, they have to maintain four regular WRPs or two regular
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to the European Parliament and the Council on the State of the Union Road Transport Market Brief Summary ► Background – Road haulage in the EU - accounts for over 70% of all EU inland transport [...] Commission had to prepare a report on the status of the EU road transport market by the end of 2013, in which it was to evaluate whether the domestic road haulage markets should be opened further (Cabotage [...] Report identifies the developments and problems of road haulage in general and the cabotage rules in particular. Affected parties: Hauliers, road haulage sector Pro: (1) There is no ordoliberal argument
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of national road infrastructure charges levied on light private vehicles (Text with EEA relevance) EN 2 EN COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION on the application of national road infrastructure [...] "user pays" and "polluter pays" principle, is one of the ways of making users of the transport network aware of the impact of their mobility choices. A modern road pricing system, aiming to contribute to [...] (tolls) levied on individual road sections frequently equipped by toll barriers. National vignettes are paid by light private vehicles in return for the right to use the main road network for a certain period
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allowances required is easy to determine. For example, on average, one litre diesel releases 2.64 kg CO2, one litre petrol 2.39 kg CO2 and one kilogram liquid gasoline 1.67 kg CO2.36 The companies covered [...] be reduced due to the fact that road transport has been one of the few major sectors in the EU with increasing GHG emissions in recent decades. CO2 emissions from road transport rose by nearly 23% between [...] allowances for emissions from road transport will only cover half of today’s emissions from road transport. This implies that in the carbon market the additional demand of the road
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