June 3rd 2013
Multilateral Exchange Budapest
Following 2010 and 2011 the National Transport Authority (NTA) was again the proud host of an Euro Controle Route exchange held from the 5th to 10th May 2013. The event in Hungary was primarily focused around the exchange of experience and knowledge on roadside technical inspections as well as detection of tachograph fraud.
May 30th 2013
Middle Management Conference - 2011
On May 17th and 18th the ECR Middle Management conference took place. The conference was the follow-up of a pilot conference in Gatwick in 2009. The conference was hosted in the Benelux buildings, where the ECR secretariat is housed.
The target audience for the conference, the middle management, can be defined as follows: inspectorate staff who have a clear knowledge of what goes on in the field on a day to day basis and are at the same time in the position to influence the control practices and policy of their organisation.The event had participants from eleven member states: Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Luxemburg, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Ireland and the Netherlands.
May 29th 2013
On May 21st, Euro Contrôle Route organised a workshop held at the General Secretariat on the enforcement of cabotage rules in road transport.
May 27th 2013
Czech-Hungarian bilateral control in the area of Brno
From the 9th May to 13th May 2011 one control unit of the Vas county transport inspectorate on behalf of the Hungarian National Transport Authority has conducted a joint action on invitation with the Czech partner authority (CSPSD) and police focusing mainly on tachograph manipulation cases in order to exchange practical experiences on the best methods of detection.
May 25th 2013
Benelux truck inspection action at Sterpenich discontinued following toxic liquid leak:
We might have missed a catastrophe by a hair’s breadth Thursday in the early afternoon, at the customs area of Sterpenich along the Belgian-Luxembourg border.
May 3rd 2013
Roadside aggression against traffic inspectors, discussed at the multilateral exchange in Bucharest,
Inspectors from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, together with the Romanian colleagues from the Romanian Road Transport Authority – (ARR) gathered for a week (17 – 22 April 2011) to learn about inspection procedures and national legislation in Romania in the field of road transport area, with the focus on the frauds in digital tachograph fraud and roadside aggression against towards control officers.
The first day of the exchange allowed the Romanian Road Transport Authority – ARR to make an overview of its competences (old and newly acquired) and of its structure, to thoroughly present the Road Inspectorate and its organisation, and to tackle with the roadside check procedure, making it possible for the participants to understand ARR functioning and attributions at national and European level.
April 25th 2013
The date: Sunday 14th 2013. Outside the Holiday Inn hotel in Leiden, the ECR flag is raised. The multilateral exchange in the Netherlands is about to start. During the course of the afternoon the 17 participants arrive from the airport and train station, chauffeured by their Dutch counterparts.
April 19th 2013
2nd regional concerted roadside check in Western Hungary
After the 1st such round of close regional cooperation succesfully initiated in Slovakia last September the National Transport Authority hosted a follow-up 2 days complex roadside check event 5th-6th April with the participation of the Croatian, Czech, Slovak and Slovenian inspectors in GyÅr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.
April 10th 2013
TRACE project presents outcome to EU member states at the general secretariat of the Benelux
The EC co-financed project TRACE organised a roll out of the project outcome to policy makers at the Benelux General Secretariat in Brussels on March 27th. The Trace consortium groups all stakeholders in the European enforcement environment: Euro Contrôle Route (ECR), CORTE, TISPOL en VOSA.
March 22nd 2013
Recently a conference was held in St-Petersburg on 'Improving Government Oversight over Transport and Safety'.
ECR is mentioned in the conference report as an example of international cooperation.
March 14th 2013
ECR-TISPOL and industry tackling problems together
During the 1st IRU/EU presidency road transport conference on December 1st 2010, the European Ministers of Transport , presided by State-secretary Etienne Schouppe (BE)under the Belgian EU presidency, adopted a joint statement on the need for public-private partnership in the field of road transport.
Amongst others the importance of a harmonised interpretation and enforcement of all EU rules was put forward.
For Euro Contrôle Route and TISPOL the importance of a constructive dialogue with the industry has always been clear. As a result both organisations decided to sign a declaration of intent with the IRU establishing a ‘public/private partnership for better regulatory compliance, greater roadsafety and security as well as a business friendly operating environment for commercial road transport’.
The document was signed during the IRU’s Spring cocktail on March 2nd 2011.