EU: the European Commission asked eight member states to implement the legislation on truck drivers’ working time

The European Commission decided, on October 17, 2007, to send a reasoned opinion, the last stage before filing a complaint before the Court of Justice, to Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and the United Kingdom because they failed to communicate their national measures on implementing the directive 2006/22 on the harmonization of certain social legislation relating to road transport (driving time, rest periods) and the introduction of the digital tachograph. (Ref. 070859)
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The directive, which should have been implemented into national law on April 1, 2007 at the latest (see our article n°06352), aims at guaranteeing the right and harmonize the introduction of the social regulation in terms of driving time and rest periods.

Controlling driving time and rest periods. It sets the regulations to control professional truck drivers’ working time (it plans two gradually treble controls, from 1% of worked days currently to 3% in 2010 and, at least six times a year, combi

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