Browsing Category road transport
Second-hand vehicles. The Court of Justice rules on the application of different tax rates depending on the date of registration of a vehicle
Article 110 TFEU precludes, on the date of release for consumption in a Member State of a vehicle that was registered for the first time in another Member State, a vehicle tax from being calculated in accordance with the rules applicable on that date, when an earlier version of the legislation relating to that tax, which would lead to the application of a lower one and from which similar vehicles with the same relevant characteristics as the one concerned, but which were registered for the first time in the first Member State, were able to benefit, was in force when the vehicle was first registered, if and to the extent that the amount of tax levied on that imported vehicle exceeds that of the residual value of the tax incorporated in the value of similar domestic vehicles on the domestic market for second-hand vehicles
Road transport. The Court of Justice rules on the concept of “route covered by the service in question not exceeding 50 km”
The concept of “route covered by the service in question not exceeding 50 km” corresponds to the route set by the transport undertaking, not exceeding that distance, that the vehicle concerned must travel by road in order to link a point of departure to a point of arrival and serve, where appropriate, predetermined intermediary stops, in order to ensure the carriage of passengers on the regular service to which it is assigned
Insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles. The Court of Justice rules on the national legislation providing for the automatic compensation of certain victims of a road accident and on the notion of “vehicle”
The notion of “vehicle”, within the meaning of Point 1 of Article 1 of Directive 2009/103/EC, does not encompass a bicycle whose electric motor provides pedal assistance only and which is equipped with a function allowing the bicycle to accelerate to a speed of 20 km/h without pedalling, a function which may however be activated only after the use of muscular power
The Court of Justice rules on the transport of empty containers before loading or after unloading of goods in the context of combined transport
The road transport of empty containers between a container terminal and a point where the goods are loaded or unloaded falls within the concept of “combined transport”, so that it benefits from the liberalised scheme laid down for initial and/or final road transport legs which form an integral part of a combined transport operation and which are exempt from the application of the provisions relating to cabotage laid down by Regulation No 1072/2009