the European Parliament has approved of the proposal of review of the directive on the weights and the dimensions of the trucks



Today the European Parliament, in plenary sitting, has approved of the project of seeming on the proposal of introduced directive in April 2013 from the EU commission in order to introduce new stiff rules to return the surer and more ecological street transport through a review of the enforced legislation in matter of weights and dimensions of some types of vehicles, in particular affording to the producers to realize more aerodynamic trucks, so reducing the fuel burnup of the 7-10%, diminishing the gas emissions greenhouse and meanwhile increasing street safety ( on 16 April 2013). "I am satisfied - the vice president of the EU commission has commented, Siim Kallas, in charge of the transports - of this voting that supports the objective of the Commission to return clean and on the road sure the transport, allowing innovative projects for the trucks more greens of the future".

The EU commission has evidenced that today the European Parliament in first reading has adopted the majority of the dispositions key of the advanced proposal last year from the Commission, but has emphasized also not to agree with some of the decisions assumed from the Parliament, in particular with an amendment that would limit the extension of the posterior aerodynamic devices to 500 millimeters and with amendments that refuse the wide definition of "proposed intermodal transport" from the Commission that - Brussels has remembered - account of the evolution of the containerized transport holds. Moreover the Parliament has decided not to modify the current norms on the transboundary transport by the longer vehicles and has asked the Commission to report on the argument within 2016.

The EU commission has remembered moreover that EU is now up to the Council to adopt an own position on this text and that the Greek presidency wishes that this happens the next june. If the adoption of this text will happen in 2014 or 2015 - Brussels has explained - the new vehicles could circular on the European roads from 2018-2020.

The today's approval of the text by the Parliament EU is received with satisfaction from the ECGs - The Association of European Vehicle Logistics, the organization that it represents beyond 100 companies that operate in the field of the logistics of the motor vehicles and that they altogether possess or they manage a fleet of about 390 ships for the car transport, 18,100 constructed railway wagons purposely for such type of transport, 80 fluvial barges and they make use of 18.500 street conveyors. The satisfaction of the association is turned in particular - it has specified the ECGs - to the "much attended clarification of the norms on the length of cargo of the vehicles for the transport in the European Union". The association has remembered that directive 96/53/CE currently in vigor does not distinguish a conveyor of vehicles ended from any other heavy motor vehicle and "this - has explained ECGs - is the reason for which the review of directive 96/53/CE is so important for the logistics of the vehicles". ECGs therefore has expressed satisfaction for the approval by eurodeputati of a harmonization the length of the vehicles to 20,75metri, than - it has emphasized the association "resolves the current mosaic of national norms with which the associates of ECGs in all are confronted the EU". "This - it has evidenced the association - in many cases will allow to load more car on a truck being improved so the efficiency and reducing the total emissions with co2. What more important, will allow with the great part of the field in existence to maintain practical the existing ones without being potentially limited from the normative new to a length of 18,75 meters".

Also the Italian ANITA (National Association Enterprises Automotive Transports) considers that the review of the directive on weights and dimensions of the trucks ahead constitutes "a step towards the intermodalità". The association has emphasized that the European Parliament has in fact received all the proposals advanced by ANITA, that they regard the minor I block of the posterior aerodynamic parts, a longer tempistica for the mass in exercise of the new aerodynamic instrumentations and the new cabins, the tolerance which extended to in transport international weights and the height, the necessity of giving an only definition of "intermodal transportation unit" and last, but not less important, the possibility to reach the 44 tons in the terminal drafts of the transport arranged with vehicles to engine, two or three aces.

"Totally we are satisfied - the ANITA president has declared, Eleuterio Arcese - because our engagement of technical advising is rewarded. This result represents a thrust towards the intermodal transport, considered from the ANITA companies a possible solution to the many problems of the transport goods on rubber". "We hope now - it has concluded Arcese - than the text, so as it is introduced and fired in first reading, it does not endure modifications during the iter legislative".