1. ECR conference Vilnius 16 juin 2016
Challenges and perspectives of road transport controls
Julien FERNANDEZ
General directorate for infrastructure, transportation and sea French Ministry of transport
16 juin 2016

2. The road transport : an open but regulated market
Some figures – road transport
Europe 
72% of the land freight 90% of the passengers
5 M Km of roads
10 M of employees
France
85 % of the land freight, 30 % of the passengers
km of national and local roads, and Highways (11500 km)
of employees (Passengers : freight : )
vehicles
> Road transport is crucial for the european single market
> Supervision and controls are a major challenge for the european
and national authorities

3. The road transport : an open but regulated market
The european regulation : main texts
Regulation (EC) 561/2006
Regulation (EC) 165/2014
Regulation (EC) /2009
Directive 2014/47
Directive 2015/719
Directive 2006/22

4. The road transport : an open but regulated market
The French regulation : main texts
The transport code
Cabotage, social regulation, accreditation of the control officers
The highway code
Weight and dimension, traffic rules
Other text : traffic bans for week-ends (national regulation)

5. Controls priorities and modalities in France
Interministerial priorities for road control
Government instruction - december 2013
Social regulation, tachograph fraud (décret ),
Illegal Cabotage, illegal employment
Market access and professional conditions
Overloadings controls
Roadworthiness roadside checks

6. Controls priorities and modalities in France
Organization and resources for control
500 control officers from the Ministry of transport
7000 control officers (Home office, Customs)
Periodic evaluation
Budget law
Specific evaluations

7. Controls priorities and modalities in France
Controls methodology
Initial and continuous training
Experts networks
Controls Check list
Driver documents
Vehicle documents
Roadworthiness
Tachograph

8. Controls priorities and modalities in France
Controls figures (2015)
Roadside controls : identified infringements
50 % of the infringements : driving and resting time / tachograph
Approx. 1 M controls / year
Penalties / Sanctions
Criminal and administrative sanctions
Examples of sanctions :
Illegal Cabotage : fine up to €
Overloadings : Cumulative fines. Example : 46,4 tons for max legal weight 38 tons = 8 x « class 4 penalty » (135 €) 1080 €

9. The forthcoming challenges
Main issues for control
Limited ressources / growing market and road traffic
Frauds, illegal behaviour :
Tachograph frauds (« old » and « new » frauds)
Illegal cabotage
Overloadings
(…)

10. The forthcoming challenges
Co-operation between public authorities
Euro Contrôle route : current activities and evolutions (EGTC)
Incoming objectives :
Increase number of member state
More coordinated actions
Sharing tools
Share training (ECR Académie)
> Coordination : key-issue for the harmonization of controls practices

11. The forthcoming challenges
Develop intelligent control tools
ERRU and « risk rating system »
Pre-selection tools : WIM systems, Diagnostic tools
Automatic direct enforcement
Generalization and harmonization of smart control tools :
a main challenge

12. Thank you for your attention