City authorities in Milan have approved a city centre charge to start this autumn aimed at reducing congestion and tackling air pollution.
September 19, 2007 | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin
Response to the public consultation of the European Commission on the Green Paper on market-based instruments for environment and related policy purposes.
August 1, 2007 | General Transport | Pricing & Taxation
The British and French governments have proposed lowering rates of Value Added Tax (VAT) on cars and other goods that embrace cleaner technology.
July 26, 2007 | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin
An in-depth look at the revised Eurovignette directive on road tolls for lorries. Includes the state-of-the-art for road charging schemes across the EU-27 and opportunities for implementing new schemes. English version | French version | Hungarian version | Slovenian version | German version (introduction only) | Polish version | Spanish version
June 25, 2007 | Pricing & Taxation | Lorries & Road Freight
The Austrian government has agreed to raise the cost of using the country’s motorway and trunk road system by €0.042 per kilometre.
June 21, 2007 | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin
The Dutch government says it wants to heavily tax the most fuel-inefficient cars.
June 21, 2007 | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin
Editorial by Nina Renshaw
The Commission is due to discuss a freight logistics action plan later this year. The maximum dimensions of lorries is expected to be one of the issues under debate. Once again, T&E will be urging the Commission to look at the big picture, and concentrate on optimising the efficiency and reducing the environmental impacts of all transport modes, particularly through true pricing – because the economic and environmental case for LHLs put forward by the industry just doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny.
May 9, 2007 | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin
EU transport ministers have approved a partial liberalisation of transatlantic air travel, which T&E says is “a serious setback to EU climate policy”.
April 12, 2007 | Aviation | T&E Bulletin | Climate Change & Energy | Pricing & Taxation
Increased aviation growth as a result of the 'Open Skies' agreement between the EU and America could completely offset emissions reductions from integrating the sector into the EU emissions trading system (EU-ETS) according to T&E.
March 22, 2007 | Aviation | Press Releases | Climate Change & Energy | Pricing & Taxation
The European Commission has announced a proposal to raise the minimum level of diesel tax for commercial vehicles and bring it into line with taxes on petrol.
March 13, 2007 | Pricing & Taxation | Press Releases