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In July 2023, the Commission tabled a package of proposals for the greening of freight transport. Among the three proposals is one on the revision of the Weights and Dimensions Directive, which sets limits for heavy goods vehicles in international road transport. The proposal seeks to further promote use of zero-emission trucks by allowing these to exceed the standard weight limits. It also seeks to clarify the rules on use of heavier and longer vehicles in cross-border transport operations between ...

Council Directive 92/106/EEC (the 'Combined Transport Directive') is one of the key EU legal instruments aimed at promoting the shift of freight from road to lower-emission transport modes. It supports the uptake of transport operations that combine road – on one or both ends of a journey – with rail or waterways, by providing advantages such as exemptions from restrictions (on weights and dimensions of vehicles or circulation) and tax reductions. The directive contributed to the development of the ...

A criação de um mercado único europeu dos transportes rodoviários não é possível sem uma harmonização das disposições legais em vigor nos Estados-Membros. As medidas adotadas pela União Europeia são de natureza fiscal, técnica, administrativa e social.

Heavy-goods vehicles and buses circulating within the European Union must comply with certain rules regarding their weight, height, width and length, in accordance with the Weights and Dimensions Directive. The revision of the current Directive aims at improving road safety, energy efficiency and the environmental performance of road transport through greener and safer trucks.

Longer and heavier vehicles (LHVs) also known as mega trucks, gigaliners, eurocombis, and ecoliners, are currently used in some EU Member States for transportation of freight by road. The EU has recently been discussing the question of whether to change the rules on their use for cross-border freight traffic around the EU. The pros and cons are explained in our briefing.

The European Commission has proposed a revision of the rules on the weights and dimensions of road vehicles, in order to allow more energy-efficient, aerodynamic vehicles to be put on the market, and to improve road safety. But some aspects of the proposals have proved contentious. Parliament is due to vote on the proposals during the April II part-session.

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's Impact Assessment accompanying its proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 96/53/EC laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Community the maximum authorized dimensions in national and international traffic and the maximum authorized weights in international traffic (COM (2013) 195 final), submitted on 15 April 2013 ...