Report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the application by the Member States of Directive 2000/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 June 2000 on the technical roadside inspection of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating the Community. Reporting period 2009-2010

European legislation lays down a set of measures to ensure that commercial vehicles on European roads are in good condition in the interest of road safety, environmental protection and fair competition:
- rules on admission to the occupation which require transport operators to have sufficient financial capacity to ensure the proper maintenance of vehicles (Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009);
- periodic roadworthiness tests of vehicles carried out in the Member States at fixed intervals, with a minimum frequency laid down at European level, for vehicles registered on their territory (Directive 2009/40/EC);
- technical roadside inspection, which is the subject of this report, ensuring that at any time commercial vehicles are used only if they are maintained to a high degree of technical roadworthiness (Directive 2000/30/EC).

Under Directive 2000/30/EC commercial vehicles, their trailers and semi-trailers circulating on the territories of the Member States shall be subject to technical roadside inspections of their roadworthiness in order to improve road safety and the environment.

Article 6 of Directive 2000/30/EC provides that every two years Member States should communicate to the Commission the data collected relating to the previous two years concerning the number of commercial vehicles checked, classified in seven categories in accordance with the Directive and by country of registration, the items checked and deficiencies discovered. The Directive lists twelve different points that can be subject to a technical roadside inspection.

Non‑compliance with the road safety requirements of any of the items checked could lead to banning the vehicle from the road. The deficiencies of the inspected vehicle should be mentioned in the inspection reports that must be given to the driver of the commercial vehicle. The Directive requests the Commission to submit a report to the Council and the European Parliament, on the basis of the data received from the Member States, on the application of the Directive together with a summary of the results obtained.

This is the third report on the application of Directive 2000/30/EC in the Member States; it covers the period 2009-2010. The data collected by the Member States relating to this period had to be communicated to the Commission by 31 March 2011 at the latest.

By this deadline only nine Member States had supplied information concerning technical roadside inspection. The Commission has since the end of March 2011 issued several reminders in order to obtain the maximum number of statistical data and to be able to present a complete picture in the field of roadside inspections in the whole Union. By the end of 2012, all 27 Member States had finally transmitted information on the implementation of Directive 2000/30/EC.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)303: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:303:FIN

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