the ECGs prompt the nations EU to ratify the protocol e-CMR in order to allow automotive the digital evolution of the logistics



The European field of the transports and the logistics of the motor vehicles must make steps in digital field ahead and in order to complete them it is necessary that all the European nations adopt the protocol to the Convention on the contract of street international transportation of goods (CMR) of the United Nations relative of car literally electronic (e-CMR).

It has emphasized the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECGs), organization that represents the European operators of the field of the logistics automotive, in occasion of the assembly anniversary of the association that has held in recent days to Amburgo, explaining that if in Europe the legislative picture for the digitalisation of the logistic processes is already in vigor and that if the protocol e-CMR, that previews uses it of electronic consignment notes for the international transportation on the road and offers a more efficient and competitive alternative to the current paper procedure, it is adopted on February 20, 2008 and it has taken effect on June 5, 2011 as a result of it ratifies it by Lithuania happened 8 March of the same year, however today the nine Member States of the EU, that is Bulgaria are alone, Denmark Latvia, Lithuania, Holland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Spain to which France is itself addition 5th October, plus Switzerland, to have ratified this international treaty.

This - it has evidenced the ECGs - hinders in meaningful way the digital evolution of the field of the logistics. The German Wolfgang Göbel, president of the association, has emphasized that "the e-CMR he would constitute an important step in the reduction of practical the bureaucratic ones and of the costs in the logistics of the vehicles. The field - it has specified - is ready to work without paper, as soon as Europe picks this opportunity". The ECGs has rimarcato in particular as Germany, that it is the greatest producer than vehicles of the automotive EU and the greatest market and also an important transit country for the logistics, has not still ratified the protocol.

The association of the automotive operators of the logistics has emphasized that in the same way the development of the procedures and the documentation in digital format, in particular the Test electronic of happened delivery (ePOD), constitutes a priority for the same automotive houses.