Mercedes Gómez, General Director of Land Transport of the Ministry of Public Works, foresees the approval of the Regulation of Land Transport Regulations (ROTT) for this month of February. Despite the Ministry of Development’s attempt to have the legal text come into effect on January 1, the continuing delays by the State Council and the delay in the pertinent procedures for its entry into force are the main reasons why which the ROTT has a delay of four years on the initial date of its start-up.

In that sense, the maximum time is established to adapt the Land Transportation Ordinance Law in a two-year Regulation. However, this period could not be fulfilled for political and institutional reasons that have been postponing the aforementioned approval of the regulatory standard. For its part, the new ROTT, which has the new regulation of access to transport as a result of the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued in February 2018, includes developments that affect the development of the business activity of transport of highway:
• Access to the profession: to obtain the professional title of transporter and transport operator, it will be required to have a previous academic level, such as the Bachelor’s or FP’s degree.
• Transportation manager: the development of supervision activities will be included in all areas of the company. In addition, there will be a real and effective link between the person holding the title of professional competence and the company that owns the activity.
• Loss of good repute: it will imply the suspension of the validity of transport authorizations for one year, for committing a very serious infraction or three serious ones in certain cases.
• Access requirements: the elimination of the current minimum fleet requirement to enter the profession (three trucks in freight transport, and five buses for the transport of passengers), allows access with a single vehicle, although maintaining the current seniority requirement: five months in the first case and two years in the second.

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SUPPORT FOR THE ANFAC DENOUNCE

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20 January, 2019

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The Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), the Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CEPYME) and the Confederation of Business Associations of the Balearic Islands (CAEB) have expressed their “unanimous support” to the complaint presented by the Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Vehicles and Trucks (ANFAC) before the European Commission and before the Council for the Market Unit, under the Ministry of Economy and Enterprise, the draft Law on Climate Change and Energy Transition of the Balearic Government.

The organizations defend “the harmonization of the autonomous policies of transition to the electric vehicle with the national and the European”, and affirm that the Law of Climate Change and Energy Transition of the Balearic Government “seriously affects the normal functioning of the internal market, thus assuming a clear breach of European Union law. ” On the other hand, the Balearic norm contemplates the prohibition that can circulate through the islands diesel vehicles (cars and motorcycles) from 2025, despite being legal in the rest of Spain and the European Union.

In addition, since the year 2035, the circulation of vehicles powered by fossil fuels (cars, motorcycles, vans and vans), would be prohibited. Notwithstanding the law, it will permit the circulation of vehicles already established in the Balearic Islands, regardless of their age and their emissions. Along with CEOE, CEPYME and CAEB, they also show their support for the complaints of ANFAC the Federation of Associations of Automotive Dealers (FACONAUTO), as well as the Business Association of Automotive Distributors of the Balearic Islands (ASEDA) and the Balearic Association of Companies of Vehicle Rental with Driver (BALEVAL), integrated in the Balearic Business Federation of Transport (FEBT), which mark the Balearic norm of “contrary to European policy”, as well as “regressive and discriminatory”.

Source: https://www.camionactualidad.es/destacadas-solo/item/6452-ceoe-cepyme-y-caeb-apoyan-la-denuncia-de-anfac

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FENADISMER ADVISES FOR THE DEMANDS AGAINST DE CARTEL

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13 January, 2019

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Fenadismer has not hesitated to recommend “absolute prudence” in relation to the judicial outcome of the first claims against the cartel of truck manufacturers that are being processed in Spain. And it says that: “excessive public relevance has been given to a favorable judgment issued by a Court of First Instance in Murcia, ignoring that judgments have also been issued rejecting other claims filed.” They warn that: “with will take a long judicial battle foreseeably until the Supreme Court, for what the manufacturers of trucks have hired legal offices and economists of first level”.

Fenadismer does not hide its concern about the judgment issued by a Court of First Instance of Murcia because this ruling can create a mirage for the thousands of carriers that have decided to present their legitimate claim against the participating manufacturers of the cartel. “It should be clear that the ‘famous’ judgment of the Court of First Instance of Murcia is not the first ruling that has been issued in Spain, but have been issued several judgments by different courts of first instance with a result unfavorable to the interests of the claimants, in most cases because the expert report that accompanies the claim, and that determines the amount of damage to claim, is not sufficiently motivated, so it has been rejected by the courts.

In fact, in a judgment issued by the Commercial Court No. 1 of Zaragoza on December 13, the judge fully accepts the arguments of the experts hired by the defendant manufacturers, which dismantle the method of calculation of the damage established by the plaintiff in his expert report, based exclusively on the establishment of a percentage on a historical average of previous cartels in other sectors, but without setting a precise econometric criterion on the calculation of the damage actually caused to the claimant, for which he dismisses the claim filed.

At this point, Fenadismer insists on warning the carriers that they are going to complain against the manufacturers so that they are cautious and “do not be fooled” about the possible legal offers that can be found in the market not specialized in this type of claims, taking in account that its final resolution will lead to a long judicial battle that will foreseeably reach the Supreme Court, which makes it imperative that the demands and expert reports accompanying them are technically well founded, to avoid possible dismissals and the resulting condemnation in costs to the complaining party.

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Rise in the annoyement with the ITV

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8 January, 2019

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The associations of transporters that make up the National Road Transport Committee have formally addressed the Ministry of Industry to convey the “discomfort” of the sector “with the protocols established for the tractor trucks in terms of measuring the effectiveness of braking It refers, given that in many cases the unfavorable rating to the tractors is not due to a problem of the vehicle but that the ITV facilities are not adjusted as they should, Fenadismer reports.

From the organization they communicate that: “when a tractor with air intakes and without being coupled to a semitrailer is presented to the periodic review, the equipment envisaged to perform the braking test (rollers), is not able to make an adequate reading of the parameters of the vehicle when it is ejected by the rollers “.

The response from the ITV station is that although they recognize that it may not be a defect of the vehicle, it is necessary that it is presented coupled to a semi-trailer with a certain level of load, relate from the collective chaired by Julio Villaescusa. “In fact, without intervening in the brakes of the rejected vehicle, it is presented coupled and the result is usually favorable,” they reveal.

In the statement written by the National Committee to the Undersecretary of Industry, he is told that “a good part of the carriers in our country do not provide their services with a complete set of vehicles, but the commercial relationship they maintain with their shipper is in the modality of ‘enganche’, only the transporter contributing its tractor unit, therefore, they do not have their own semi-trailers or load available to be able to present their vehicles to the periodic technical inspection. These transporters, who have opted for the installation of additional air intakes in their vehicles, depending on the ITV stations facilities are rejected their vehicles and have to go with a semi-trailer under a loan or rent, with the consequent risk and expense , without, in our opinion, it is your responsibility that you do not have the proper equipment to be able to finish the braking efficiency with the uncoupled vehicle “.

From Fenadismer remember that since the implementation of the new braking measurement system seven years ago, cases of error have increased which has increased damage and inconvenience to carriers, especially in the case of tractors.

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Europe press ahead the brands with the emissions

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31 December, 2018

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The Council of the European Union, the body in which the member countries agree on the content of the community regulations, decided at its meeting on December 20 to propose to the Commission and the European Parliament that in 2025 both trucks and new buses reduce by 15% its CO2 emissions in relation to those registered during the year 2019, and for the year 2030 a mandatory reduction of 30% is fixed. Thus, the Board is stricter than the Commission, which was responsible for this initiative, to set the limit of 30% by 2030 as definitive, unless otherwise decided in the revision that will be made of this regulation in the year 2022; On the other hand, the Commission proposal was not binding.

However, the general approach reached within the Council reduces the pretensions of the European parliamentarians, who asked for reductions of 20% and 35%. As reported by ACEA, the European association of vehicle manufacturers, the first meeting between the three institutions: Council, Commission and Parliament, which have to agree on the final limits, is scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, 2019, as the Presidency Romanian Council has given priority to the completion of the processing of this regulation, which is to be approved during the first quarter of 2019. The members of ACEA are not particularly happy with this decision.

The regulation will include an economic penalty for those manufacturers that do not meet the objectives of reducing CO2 emissions. Keep in mind, that from 2019 brands have to produce a statement of CO2 emissions of virtually every heavy vehicle they sell, information that will be taken as a reference to set the limits of 2025 and 2030. An incentive system, called super-credits, will also be established, whereby vehicles with low and zero emissions will be counted as more than one vehicle when calculating the specific emissions of a truck manufacturer.

Faced with the proposal of the Commission, the Council has decided to exclude buses and coaches from this incentive system. According to the Commission, with the agreement reached between 15 and 35%, between 2020 and 2030, 54 million tonnes of CO2 will be emitted. Currently, CO2 emissions from heavy vehicles, including trucks, buses and coaches, account for approximately 6% of total CO2 emissions in the EU and approximately 25% of total CO2 emissions from road transport.

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The problem of coal a headache for transport

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27 December, 2018

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The Government is determined to fight against climate change, and the electricity companies have chosen the middle way: to dismantle the thermal power plants, which are the main generators of electricity in our country. But they are not the only ones who will be harmed by this decision. Transportation has a lot to say about it. Coal production is on the way to disappearing in Spain and, with it, some thousand transport jobs.

As it happens in other sectors, when a productive activity disappears, it also takes all the economic activity that it generates (it happens with the automobile factories, the alimentary production, industrial, etc.). And here is no exception. The mining basins of Asturias, León, Palencia or Teruel are in danger of extinction. And all because the European Union decided, some time ago, to cut public aid to mining. Not only that: the electricity companies have also decided to close the thermal power plants that are supplied with coal (both domestic and imported), because they have to comply with the limitations imposed by Brussels to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. It is true that there are many ways to do it, but companies such as Endesa or edp (formerly Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico) have decided that the quickest is to close.

José Antonio Casillas is a Minas technical engineer and transport entrepreneur. He has a company dedicated to the transport of coal, so he is aware that his future is in the air. In the first place, he wants to make one thing clear: the decarbonization process is not to end up with coal, but with the carbon dioxide that is emitted into the atmosphere. In other words, the European Union has proposed a series of limits that must be met to pollute less. But it is the utilities that have taken the decision to close the thermal power plants, to which the Spanish Government has not raised any objection.

The associations of freight transport by road of Aragon, Asturias, Castilla y León and Galicia integrated in the CETM are very concerned about the favorable position of the central Government to the decarbonization of the energy sector and the suppression of thermal plants in Spain. For these organizations, which represent some 1,000 vehicles that work daily in the coal and thermal sectors, suppressing the plants in Spain would also generate serious indirect consequences for the transport sector in these autonomous communities, with few outlets for work and already deindustrialized.