New Eurovignette proposal postponed till July

摘要

It will ultimately be on 2 July - and not on 17 June -when the European Commission will present its new Eurovignette proposal, aiming to authorise member states to put in place toll roads for heavy goods vehicles in order to recover costs linked with pollution, noise and road congestion (modification of Directive 1999/62/EC). This will therefore take place under Antonio Tajani, the new Italian commissioner called on replace Jacques Barrot on the transport portfolio. The most recent version of the draft, which Europolitics Environment was able to procure (see link at the bottom of the article), shows that the Commission still intends to link this possibility with the obligation for member states to reinvest the revenues from these tolls into measures aiming to reduce pollution from road transport at the source (for example, research projects on clean vehicle or fuels), to reduce the effects of this pollution and develop alternative transport infrastructures.