This report looks at the Member States’ implementation of four interrelated and complementary legislative acts establishing social rules in road transport. These four legislative acts are: Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, which establishes rules on driving times, breaks and rest periods for professional drivers; Directive 2006/22/EC, which determines minimum requirements for enforcement of these rules; Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment; and Directive 2002/15/EC, which sets out complementary provisions on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities. Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 provides that Member States must communicate every two years the necessary information to enable the Commission to draw up a report on the application of that Regulation and developments in the fields in question. This report covers the two-year period 2009-2010. Its scope is determined predominantly by the type of data that Member States are obliged to collect and provide in accordance with Directive 2006/22/EC and Commission Decision 2009/810/EC establishing the standard reporting form. This standard form combines the reporting requirements of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 and Directive 2002/15/EC (Road Transport Working Time Directive), which makes things easier for Member States and allows them to submit in one single report the required information on the implementation of the social legislation in the field of road transport. To further facilitate the reporting process, an interactive reporting format was used for the first time, making electronic submission of the data easier and providing an initial quality control check of the reported figures. (Author/publisher)
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