Road Safety
The aim of the Community’s land transport policy is to promote sustainable mobility that is efficient, safe and with reduced negative effects on the environment.
The Community policy objectives for road transport are therefore to promote efficient road freight and passengers transport services, to create fair conditions for competition, to promote and harmonise safer and more environmental friendly technical standards, to ensure a minimum fiscal and social harmonisation and to make sure that the rules in road transport are effectively applied without discrimination.
The existing legislation applying to road transport services establishes common rules on access to the market and to the profession, sets minimal standards for working time, driving and rest periods (including enforcement and the use of tachograph), sets minimal annual vehicle taxes and common rules for tolls and user charges.