Cost-benefit analysis study for impact assessment on road circulation of non-road mobile machinery. Final Report

Abstract:

Harmonisation of the road safety requirements for mobile machinery in the European Union (EU) has been an important topic among policymakers and other stakeholders for several decades. The study commissioned by EASME in 2016 confirmed that a lack of harmonised rules for the road circulation of mobile machinery causes direct and indirect costs to economic operators, citizens and Member States, including market delays for new products, obstacles to cross-border activity by distributors and rental companies and road safety concerns in the Member States with less stringent rules.

This study provides an input to the European Commission’s impact assessment that will accompany a possible new EU legislative proposal aiming to harmonise road safety requirements for mobile machinery. The study builds on the existing evidence, updating, improving and filling in the gaps to measure the possible economic impacts of different harmonisation options. The cost-benefit analysis conducted in this study provided the evidence base for identifying the best policy option, with the largest long-term net benefit for society, including the affected economic operators and EU citizens in all the EU Member States.

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