14 Amendments of Kateřina KONEČNÁ related to 2017/0128(COD)
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The electronic toll systems should be interoperable and based on open and public standards, available on a non- discriminatory basis to all system suppliers. The system for collecting payments for the use of road infrastructure should be simple and fair, and should not discriminate against drivers from other Member States. When determining the cost of payments, therefore, objective account should be taken of the vehicles' impact on the environment and on the technical condition of the roads.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4 a) The proliferation of different administrative requirements for toll user registration from toll domains to toll domain should be unified in order to facilitate EETS adoption.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Artificial barriers to the operation of the internal market should be removed, while still allowing the Member States and the Union to implement a variety of road- charging policies for all types of vehicles at local, national or international level. The equipment installed in vehicles should allow such road-charging policies to be implemented in accordance with the principles of non-discrimination between the citizens of all Member States. TIn the collection of tolls, therefore - including the possible use of single on-board units in all Member States - it should no longer be necessary to acquire separate short- term vignettes to travel around the different Member States, and the interoperability of electronic toll systems at Union level therefore needs to be ensured as soon as possible.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5 a) If a legal entity being a toll service provider also plays other roles in an electronic toll collection system, or has other activities not directly related with electronic toll collection, it should be required to keep separate profit and loss accounts for each type of its activities. Cross subsidies between these different activities should be excluded.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 – point a
Recital 6 – point a
(a) a single contract between the clients and the operators offering the service, complying with a contractual set of rules allowing all operators and/or issuers to provide the service, giving access to the whole network; the contract should be valid for all toll domains.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7 a) EETS providers should be entitled to fair remuneration, calculated based on a transparent and non-discriminatory methodology.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) For the purpose of covering, with their on-board equipment, the required communication technologies, EETS providers should be allowed to make use of- and link to other hardware and software systems already present in the vehicle such as satellite navigation systems or smartphones. , smartphones, digital and smart tachographs or any other on-board unit.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Electronic tolling and co-operative ITS (C-ITS) applications use similar technologies and neighbouring frequency bands for short range vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. The 5.8 GHz band should be protected for the use in tolling systems. In the future, the potential for merging electronic tolling with C-ITS in the 5.9 GHz band, currently used by C- ITS, should be explored, after a thorough assessment of the costs, benefits, technical barriers and possible solutions thereto.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) The amount and type of data which EETS providers communicate to toll chargers, for the purpose of calculating and applying tolls or to verify the calculation of applied toll on the vehicles of EETS users by the EETS providers, should be limited to a strict minimum, and EETS providers should not be required to disclose commercially sensitive information to toll chargers except in the framework of toll enforcement activities.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point –a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point –a (new)
-a 'service provider' means a private entity which provides toll services to the end users, but is not the national toll service provider, nor an EETS provider.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) 'toll operator' means an entity which organises the collection of the road fees on behalf of and for the benefit of the toll charger;
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
(b b) 'national toll service provider’ means an entity which is appointed by a Member State, with an obligation to provide the toll services to end users of the toll service in the whole territory of the Member State;
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) 'failure to pay a road fee' means the commission of an offence resulting in the failure by a road user to pay a road fee in a Member State, as defined by the relevant laws of that Member State. The road user is the sole responsible of the offence;
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a Accounting 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that legal entities which are toll service providers keep separate profit and loss accounts and balance sheets for activities performed in the role related to the provision of the toll service, as defined in standard ISO 17573:2010 and all other activities. Member States shall also take the necessary measures to ensure that these accounts and balance sheets are published separately for each type of activity and that cross subsidies between the activities performed in the role related to the provision of the toll service and other activities are excluded. 2. The accounting systems for the activities performed in a role related to the provision of the toll service and other activities shall be kept separate from accounts relating to any other type of activities so that a clear evaluation can be made of the costs and benefits related to activities performed in the role related to the provision of the toll service.