Comparative information on transport prices and taxation across Europe

Compiled by T&E, Brussels, September 2000

 

Road tolls in different European countries

Fuel prices in European countries

Eco-points (and brief technical explanation of the eco-point scheme)

The Brenner case

Road charging schemes (Introduction, Switzerland, Germany, Austria)

Annex 1 (French toll-road prices)

Annex 2 (companies operating tolls in Europe)

Annex 3 (Real changes in cost of transport and in disposable income in the UK, 1974-1999)

 

 

Road tolls in different European countries

 

Not all European countries operate road tolls.  It is difficult to get hold of information on the level of tolls in all countries which have them, as companies tend not to publish them and there is not easily accessible central information point which lists them.

 

See Annex 1 for a list of French toll prices: it is used as an example.  See Annex 2 for the organisations operating tolls in those European countries which have them.

 

Charging systems in EU15 (from T&E 99/6)

Charging system

Number of EU Member States applying it

Fuel tax

15

Annual vehicle tax

15

Eurovignette

6

Registration / sales tax

5

Road tolls (excluding tunnels / bridges

5

Tax on vehicle insurance premiums

11

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Fuel prices in European countries

 

Minimum levels of excise duty applicable to road fuels in the EU, per 1,000 litres, currently and proposed (table from T&E 99/6)

 

Current

Proposed for

1/01/1998

Proposed for

1/01/2000

Proposed for

1/01/2002

Petrol

287

417

450

500

Diesel

245

310

343

393

Source: COM (97) 30 final

 

Levels of motor fuel excise duties in EU15 plus Norway and Switzerland in September 1998. The table also provides information on how many individual countries will have to increase their excise duties in order to comply with the proposed EU minimum levels for 2002.  Excise duties on diesel and unleaded petrol (€ per 1,000 litres and percentage increase) in the countries of Western Europe as of 1 April 1999 and required increase for complying with the proposed EU minimum levels for excise duties in 2002.  From T&E 99/6.

Member States

Petrol excise duty

Petrol excise duty

% required increase

Diesel excise duty

Diesel excise duty

% required increase

Austria

414.4

21

289.7

36

Belgium

507.2

0

290.0

36

Denmark

506.5

0

307.7

28

Finland

559.7

0

304.7

29

France

589.5

0

371.7

6

Germany

531.8

0

347.7

13

Greece

318.5

57

256.6

53

Ireland

378.7

32

330.1

19

Italy

541.8

0

403.2

0

Luxembourg

347.3

44

252.9

55

Netherlands

586.8

0

a323.3

22

Portugal

498.8

0

295.3

33

Spain

371.7

34

269.9

46

Sweden

486.9

0

b291.1

35

United Kingdom

624.5

0

c609.0

0

Norwayd

565.0

0

438.0

0

Switzerland

456.0

6

473.0

0

 

a       Includes a payback arrangement for > 100 litre filling-up actions of € 22.7 per 1,000 litres;

b      Ultra sulphur diesel (environmental class 1) which dominates the Swedish market. The charge on standard diesel (class 3) is € 346 per 1,000 litres;

c      Low sulphur diesel, which has gained a large market share since the beginning of 1999. The rate for normal diesel is € 638.8;

d       Levels as of 1 September 1998.

Sources: EC DG XVII’s (now DG TREN) Oil Bulletin 28 March 1999 (including €31 increase for petrol and diesel in Germany as of 1 April 1999), and T&E´s member organisations in Norway and Switzerland.

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Eco-points

 

Austrian transit traffic takes ‘buy now, pay later’ approach (T&E Bulletin 89, June 2000)

 

Environmental concerns are taking a back seat in Austrian transit traffic.

 

This is the opinion of T&E member VCÖ, reacting to the news that important environmental safeguards on transit traffic, negotiated as part of Austria's membership of the EU, are being ignored and could be modified.

 

For environmental reasons, Austria insisted on limits to transit traffic when it joined the EU, and these were incorporated under Protocol 9 of the accession agreement. Under the protocol, member-states are given a certain fixed number of “eco-points” to distribute to their hauliers, with the total number of eco-points being reduced each year.

 

Each lorry passing through Austria pays a number of eco-points proportional to its emissions.  The goal is to reduce pollutants by 60% over 12 years.

 

The protocol also limits the absolute number of transit journeys. If the total in any one year exceeds the base year (1991) by more than 8%, then there is a 20% reduction in available eco-points the following year. This happened in 1999, but so far in 2000 member states have ignored the reduction and used their eco-points as if they had a full allocation.

 

If the agreement is to be implemented, transit traffic should halve between now and January 2001. The Commission has instead proposed spreading the reductions over a four-year period, 2000-03, as it believes implementing the agreement would have “disproportionately major negative consequences”.

 

While there will be debate about which option to take, there are concerns that the environment will be the real loser.  “In principle, it doesn’t really matter which of the two options is taken,” said Wolfgang Rauh of VCÖ.

 

“The most important thing is that the spirit of the agreement is kept and the environment protected.  Member states have so far ignored the environmental agreement with impunity, and it seems likely they will want to continue their ‘buy-now, pay-later’ approach to the accession agreement.”

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Brenner issue (& Eco-points)

 

Citizens take to the streets (T&E Bulletin 90, July 2000)

 

Citizens living in Austria’s delicate Alpine region are so alarmed about the problem of transit traffic they have taken matters into their own hands.

 

Accusing the Commission of not sticking to Austria’s EU accession agreements, and the Austrian government of not doing anything about it, the groups, co-ordinated by Transitforum Austria Tirol, blockaded the Brenner pass for 29 hours late last month [= June 2000]. And they have threatened more action in the autumn if the problem is not solved.

 

Fritz Gurgiser of Transitforum said the blockade was “a signal that the people affected most by international traffic are ready to fight for their survival.”

 

The blockade was over two related issues. Firstly, it was a protest against the likely European Court of Justice ruling against Austria over the Eurovignette. Austria is accused of breaching two aspects of the Eurovignette directive in its attempts to charge lorries for the damage they do to the environment and local residents (see March 2000 Bulletin for the full story).

 

Secondly, citizens want the “ecopoint” system to be implemented as agreed. Ecopoints are designed to reduce pollution in the Alpine region, and limit the absolute number of transit journeys in a given year. If the number of journeys is too high in one year, as was the case in 1999, then there must be a significant reduction in the following year. Therefore, if the agreement is to be implemented, then transit traffic should halve between now and January 2001, but no action to reduce transit traffic has yet been taken (see June Bulletin).

 

In a strongly-worded letter to the Austrian chancellor in early May, Transitforum accused the European Commission of a “conscious breach of contract which it is knowingly intensifying” over the ecopoints scheme, and called on the government to take action.

 

The Commission has argued that fully implementing the agreement in 2000 would have “disproportionately major negative consequences” and has instead proposed spreading the reductions over a four-year period, with reductions coming mainly from those countries which most use the routes.

 

The transport Council, meeting just after the blockade, failed to agree the Commission’s suggested four-year spread, with five countries forming a blocking minority against it. Austria voted against the proposal, arguing for immediate cuts in traffic, while Germany, Italy, Belgium and Greece argued there is no need for traffic cuts at all. If the Council cannot reach agreement within three months the Commission can adopt its proposal unilaterally.

 

T&E’s Austrian Member VCÖ said that while the Brenner blockade doesn’t solve any problems, it should be seen as a useful opportunity to rethink traffic policy and develop better solutions.

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Attempt to charge true road costs judged illegal (T&E Bulletin, March 2000)

 

Attempts in Austria to charge lorries for the damage they do to residents and the environment have run off the road.

 

The European Court of Justice’s advocate general Antonio Saggio said last month [= February 2000] that the tolls Austria currently levies on heavy goods vehicles using the Brenner Pass motorway are against EU law.  The level of the toll was set to protect the Alpine communities living near the motorway.

 

Although Saggio’s report is not binding on the full court, it is in effect a pre-judgement and means Austria might soon have to repay billions of euros.

 

The Commission says Austria is breaching two aspects of the Eurovignette directive, both the original 1993 version and the updated version from last year: firstly, the Brenner toll discriminates against non-Austrian lorries; and secondly, its level exceeds the cost of building or maintaining the motorway.

 

Wolfgang Rauh of T&E’s Austrian member VCÖ said: “The current level of the Brenner toll should be legitimate.  The judgement from the European Court is justified on legal grounds because the Eurovignette directive says only the infrastructure costs can be charged for, not the environmental and other external costs.

 

“The Commission has been suggesting for years that external costs should be internalised in charges such as this.  It is now high time these suggestions become part of a new directive on charging for road use.”

 

To avoid discriminating against non-Austrian lorries, the VCÖ suggests not eliminating the Brenner toll but extending it to another trans-Tyrol route, the Inntal motorway, which it says would be consistent with EU law.

 

Meanwhile Germany has announced it wants to introduce a national distance-based charging scheme for heavy vehicles in 2002-03 which will include taking exhaust emissions into account “if technically possible”.  The initial suggested charge is €0.13 per km travelled, which would be too low to include any external costs (France currently charges €0.14 and Italy €0.10-0.15).

 

T&E and its main German member VCD have welcomed the announcement, though stressing that this can only be a first step on the road to fair and efficient pricing.

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Road Charging schemes (taken from T&E 99/6, updated in 2000)

 

Introduction

 

The possible introduction of a scheme for electronic Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) charging should be viewed as much as possible in an international context. Harmonisation of the charge base (vehicle classes) and, to a certain degree, of the technical and payment systems, is of utmost importance to achieve the maximum efficiency from the charging regime.

 

In this chapter we present an overview of activities in the countries that are currently most active in the area of electronic kilometre charging for HGVs: Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

 

Annex A of T&E 99/6 (available free on T&E’s web-site http://www.t-e.nu)contains a description of experiences with km charging systems in Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand, as well as experiences and plans with electronic road pricing for passenger cars in Singapore and the Netherlands.

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Swiss kilometre charge (2001)

 

In a recent agreement with the EU[1], Switzerland agreed to replace its ban on HGVs over 28 tonnes with a kilometre-based charging scheme. The scheme is due to be introduced in 2001 for all HGVs with GVW > 3.5 tonnes. The system is unique as it is the only system up to now announced in Europe that will cover all kilometres driven in a country.

 

Main system

Switzerland has decided to use an OBU (On Board Unit) linked to the tachograph as the primary technology. GPS is used as a backup system in order to perform a check on the kilometres indicated by the tachograph. The OBU will contain vehicle characteristics such as the registration number, GVW etc. The OBU will also contain a function indicating whether a trailer is coupled or not.

 

The measurement of the mileage is based on the tachograph. Nearly all tachographs currently in use have a built-in output where electrical pulses that are proportional to distance driven are available. Currently, the OBU is connected to this output and counts these pulses. Calibration of the OBU ensures that the mileage reading on the OBU equals the one on the tachograph. In the future, when the new European digital tachograph is introduced, the mileage could be transmitted from the tachograph to the OBU directly as a digital numerical value.

 

Beacons installed at the Swiss border will work with DSRC (Dedicated Short-Range Communications, microwave) systems. These beacons will serve three purposes:

1        first, they will be installed at the Swiss border in order to switch the system on or off;

2        second, the beacons will perform an extra check by reading OBU-log-file entries to verify whether OBU data (e. g. registered vehicle and trailer characteristics, mileage, user manipulations) are consistent. Video pictures will be taken of HGVs passing beacons in order to check whether the number plate is consistent with the OBU registration number and if the vehicle is articulated or not;

3        third, they could be installed at entrances to certain transit routes in order to switch to a higher charge level[2].

 

Exception system for non-equipped vehicles

There is an obligation for all 52,000 Swiss HGVs to have the OBU installed by 2001. This implies an exception system will only be necessary for foreign drivers (who do not want to buy an OBU).

 

The system is a semi-electronic self-service system with a so-called ‘ID-card’. At the border, the driver gets a vehicle ID-card indicating vehicle data and payment data (only tank cards or custom accounts are acceptable). Every time they pass the border, they enter the card and their actual mileage and trailer data (yes / no, weight) into a terminal; then they receive a ticket presenting the relevant data. When leaving the country, the driver fills in their new mileage on the ticket and hands it over to the customs authorities. If the card indicates an account number, payment is made electronically.

 

Charge levels

In the agreement with the EU, the maximum average kilometre charge (weighted for engine emission class) is related to a reference trip with a length of 300 km. The average maximum level as of 2005 is set at 180 for a 40-tonne HGV. This level will be increased to 200 as soon as the first transalpine tunnel is opened, or from 2008 at the latest. The 200 fee is equal to 0.5 per tonne GVW for this reference trip, or 0.017 per gross tkm. The Swiss intend to charge all Swiss road transport with GVW over 28 tonnes the maximum permissible average amount. See Table 1.

 

 

Table 1   Maximum permissible km charge rates to be applied in Switzerland for HGVs, in per vkm |Agreement between EU and Switzerland 1999|

Year

Euro 2

Euro 1

Euro 0

Average

Weight

2001-2004

0.30

0.36

0.42

 not fixed

34 tons

2005-2007*

0.52

0.59

0.73

0.60

40 tons

2008-

0.58

0.66

0.82

0.67

40 tons

Based on an exchange rate of CHF 1 = € 0.624.

*      If the Lötschberg railway tunnel is opened before 2008, the 2008 rates will apply from the day the tunnel is opened. According to a protection clause, HGV charges may be increased by 12.5% for a maximum period of one year in the case of under-utilisation of the Lötschberg tunnel capacity (less than two thirds used for a period of at least 10 weeks).

The national GVW before 1.1.05 is 34 tonnes. Within the bilateral agreements on transport between the European Union and Switzerland a limited number of vehicles per year of up to 40 tonnes are allowed before 2005. The rates per kilometre for these limited number of vehicles are higher than the normal rates shown in Table 1.

HGVs with GVW up to 28 tonnes may face a slightly lower charge (on average about € 0.0155 instead of € 0.017 per gross tkm from 2008).

Furthermore, in the period 2001-04 there will be a transitional quota arrangement for at most 220,000 trips per year with HGVs with an actual GVW up to 28 tonnes (empty HGVs and HGVs with certain light goods). These vehicles will have to pay a flat fee, increasing from € 31 in 2001 up to € 50 by 2004 for each alpine transit. As of 2005 these vehicles will have to pay the normal charge. This is a compromise in the EU-CH agreement.

 

Finally, the agreement allows charge level differentiation between alpine transit kilometres and other kilometres on Swiss territory. As maximum charge levels may not be exceeded in any circumstance, this would in practice mean a lower overall charge level. No political decision has yet been taken in Switzerland about the introduction of an alpine transit tax. Therefore, the rates shown in Table 1 will be used for kilometre charging but they also include a potential future alpine transit tax.

 

As the introduction of the charges is linked to the cost-cutting increase of the maximum permitted GVW from 28 to 40 tonnes, it is expected that final road haulage costs will not increase substantially compared with the current situation.

 

Costs

The OBU will cost about 800 per HGV. If we assume 60,000 vehicles (52,000 Swiss, 8,000 foreign) to be equipped with an 800 OBU, the OBU costs will amount to € 48 million per vehicle generation. Development costs will be about 25 million, investment costs about 80m, and operating costs will amount to about to 16m per annum. If we assume OBU costs to be written off over seven years (the average HGV lifetime), and development and investment costs over 15 years, we find total annual costs of about 35m. The final revenues of the charging system are estimated at 1 billion. This implies that total costs will amount to about 3 to 4% of total revenues. It must be stressed that these are only estimates which include a degree of uncertainty which cannot be avoided when looking this far ahead.

 

It should be noted here that Switzerland is a pioneer, and that its HGV fleet is rather small. Costs will probably be lower for countries that follow.

 

The authorities will have to take care to ensure that distortions of competition do not arise between Swiss hauliers and foreign hauliers. The two groups must be offered the systems on the same conditions though with some requirements as guarantees for foreign vehicles.

 

Payment

For Swiss hauliers, the system will work on a post-payment basis. The OBU entries will be read each month by a chip-card which then has to be sent physically to the authorities. The authorities check the data and send an invoice. At a later stage, the transmission of the OBU-data via the internet could be considered.

 

For foreign hauliers, electronic post-payment is only considered feasible if they have a tank or a customs account. If not, the evasion risk is considered too high and cash payments will have to be made.

 

Interoperability

The Swiss strive towards interoperability between their system and other European systems in the following ways:

·         by keeping the system’s architecture as open as possible;

·         by complying with the CEN pre-standards for the DSRC system;

·         by having the OBU, border beacons and enforcement stations in different tenders, so that several suppliers are forced to test interoperability for each others’ systems in practice. (However, the tendering processes has resulted in limiting the suppliers to Kapsch and Q-Free);

 

An illustration of the Swiss system can be found on page 8 of T&E 99/6 (available for free on the “Publications” page of T&E’s web-site: http://www.t-e./nu).

 

Current information about the Swiss Heavy Vehicles Tax can be found on the website of Swiss Customs Authority [http://www.zoll.admin.ch]. 

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German motorway kilometre charge

 

Germany has announced that it will introduce a kilometre charge for HGVs with a GVW over 12 tonnes. With reference to the agreement between the partners within the German government, the introduction is foreseen early in the near future. This could be before the end of 2002. The charge will only apply to HGV kilometres driven on motorways.

 

The process is still at quite an early stage. The German government has decided to set up a list of requirements the system should fulfil and have consortia bid for the job. The exact requirements for the system are currently being worked out.

 

Although, there have not been taken yet any political decision, a expert group has already signalised that the financing of the infrastructure should move from taxes to user charges. The same expert group has suggested to fix the HGV kilometre charge at 0.25 DM/km (http://www.bmvbw.de) corresponding to 0.128. However, in recent years no signals on charge levels have been given from the Ministry.

 

Germany will play a very important role in the progress of kilometre charging in Europe because of its economic weight and central geographical position. Therefore, it is highly recommended that Germany start negotiations with Switzerland, Austria and the Eurovignette countries in order to ensure a smooth introduction and good interoperability with other future km charging systems.

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Austrian motorway kilometre charge (2002)/Ecopoint system

 

The situation in Austria is uncertain on a political level. However, Austria has also signalled its intention to introduce a km charge for HGVs with GVW over 3.5 tonnes driving on its ‘high performance’ roads. Austria has about 2,000 km of these roads, 1,700 km of motorways and 300 km of other fast roads.

 

Currently Austria operates the so-called ‘Ecopoint’ system for HGVs making full transits. This is a remnant from EU accession negotiations. Part of the deal was abolition in 2003. The introduction of the km charge is currently scheduled for 2002, i.e. before the Ecopoint deadline. In the text below, we first describe the Ecopoint system, then we will describe the new charging plans.

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Ecopoint system

 

In the first years, the Ecopoint system was operated manually. In 1998 automatic point collection with an on-board responder (‘Ecotag’) was introduced. The system has two switches; green (Austrian transit mode, Ecopoints required) and red (other). When passing the Austrian border, the system is automatically turned green, so the driver has to switch it back to red when he is not going to make a full transit. Beacons register the number of Ecopoints required, give a signal to the Ecotag that the transaction has been performed and send it to the central computer in Vienna. This computer contains data from all firms operating the Ecotag system and checks whether the number of points required is available. When exiting Austria, the system is turned ‘green’ again.

 

The system is not watertight due to the manual switch to ‘red’. When no manual checks are performed, it is possible to transit Austria with a ‘red’ Ecotag (so no Ecopoints are registered). There is not much of an incentive to do so, as there is no serious shortage of Ecopoints. However, frequent manual checks are performed. If faulting is detected a fine of €1,450 is levied. As hauliers do not benefit from cheating, quite a high percentage of the fines is due to unintended cheating[3]:

 

·         in some cases the beacons do not ‘read’ the Ecotag, especially when it’s raining and the windscreen wipers are working (also sometimes the beacons just do not work properly);

·         the driver cannot see whether Ecopoints have been read or not;

·         the system does not give a signal if the batteries are not working properly;

·         the glue to attach the Ecotag to the window is of poor quality.

 

Austria wants to use parts of the Ecopoint system for the km charge system. Experience to date suggests that Austria will have to do some work to improve reliability and user-friendliness of the system at the same time.

 

New charging system

The system will consist of an OBU, which will enable the driver to drive his vehicle through a beacon at about 30 km/h. Kilometre registration is not necessary, because the motorway system is closed. Therefore the OBU system only has to contain vehicle and payment data. In total, 90 payment points will be installed. The system will look quite like the French péage, with automatic and manual payment lanes (the latter for the exception system).

 

Charging levels will be differentiated according to the number of axles (2, 3 or 4+) and will on average amount to 0.09, 0.12 and 0.15 per km respectively. Charges may be higher for expensive bridges, tunnels etc. No environmental differentiation is foreseen yet.

 

The development and investment costs are estimated at 290m. Operating costs are estimated at 55m per annum. OBU costs will be relatively low. If investment costs are assumed to be written off over 15 years, total annual costs will amount to about 82m. The annual charge revenues are estimated at 250m. This implies costs will be about one third of the revenue, quite a high value. The main reasons for this are the rather low charge level and the fact that it will be applied to motorway kilometres only.

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Annex 1

Toll-road prices in France.

Évolution des taux kilométriques moyens du péage (average prices, 1995-1998)

En centimes/kilomètre

1995

1996

1997

1998

Véhicules légers

38

39

41

42

Poids lourds

83

86

91

94

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TUNNEL DU FREJUS

Classe

Types de véhicules

Aller

Aller

Aller/Retour

Aller/Retour

1

Véhicules dont l'empattement est inférieur ou égal à 2,30 m
Motocyclette avec ou sans side-car

101,00

15,45

130,00

19,91

2

Véhicules dont l'empattement est supérieur à 2,30 m et inférieur ou égal à 2,63 m

154,00

23,44

192,00

29,29

3

Véhicules dont l'empattement est supérieur à 2,63 m et inférieur ou égal à 3,30 m

200,00

30,46

254,00

38,66

4

Véhicules à 2 essieux dont l'empattement est supérieur à 3,30 m

482,00

73,43

786,00

119,76

5

Véhicules à 3 essieux

734,00

111,86

1 170,00

178,51

6

Véhicules à 4 essieux et plus

971,00

148,01

1 556,00

237,26

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ITINERAIRES LES PLUS FREQUENTES

Itinéraires

Classe 1

Classe 2

Classe 3

Classe 4

Classe 5

Paris-Lyon (A6)

161,00

24,54

185,00

28,20

306,00

46,65

421,00

64,18

96,00

14,64

Paris-Lyon (A5)

170,00

25,92

197,00

30,03

327,00

49,85

446,00

67,99

102,00

15,55

Paris-Tours

114,00

17,38

172,00

26,22

197,00

30,03

266,00

40,55

69,00

10,52

Paris-Bordeaux

262,00

39,94

401,00

61,13

443,00

67,53

610,00

92,99

158,00

24,09

Paris-Calais (A1/A26)

108,00

16,46

162,00

24,70

178,00

27,14

242,00

36,89

65,00

9,91

Paris-Calais (A16)

99,00

15,09

149,00

22,71

169,00

25,76

247,00

37,65

59,00

8,99

Paris-Lille

75,00

11,43

111,00

16,92

126,00

19,21

171,00

26,07

45,00

6,86

Paris-Marseille

277,00

42,23

365,00

55,64

490,00

74,70

677,00

103,21

166,00

25,31

Paris-Strasbourg

184,00

28,05

279,00

42,53

320,00

48,78

427,00

65,10

113,00

17,23

Paris-Caen (A13)

69,00

10,52

101,50

15,47

107,00

16,31

156,50

23,86

42,50

6,48

Paris-Caen (A14)

107,00

16,31

177,50

27,06

221,00

33,69

308,50

47,03

61,50

9,38

Paris-Nice

360,00

54,88

489,50;

74,62

624,50

95,20

863,50

131,72

216,00

32,93

Paris-Genève (A6/A40)

212,00

32,32

256,00

39,03

400,00

60,98

550,00

83,85

127,00

19,36

Paris-Genève (A5/A39)

221,00

33,69

268,00

40,86

421,00

64,18

575,00

87,66

133,00

20,28

Paris-Nantes

176,00

26,83

266,00

40,55

305,00

46,50

400,00

60,98

106,00

16,16

Paris-Rennes

148,00

22,56

220,00

33,54

260,00

39,64

344,00

52,44

89,00

13,57

Paris-Toulouse

355,00

54,12

545,00

83,08

594,00

90,55

817,00

124,55

214,00

32,62

Lyon-Montpellier

119,00

18,14

184,00

28,05

191,00

29,12

265,00

40,40

71,00

10,82

Clermont Ferrand-St Etienne

54,00

8,23

84,00

12,81

90,00

13,72

124,00

18,90

32,00

4,88

Lyon-Grenoble

53,00

8,08

83,00

12,65

83,00

12,65

112,00

17,07

29,00

4,42

Nantes-Bordeaux

113,00

17,23

175,00

26,68

182,00

27,75

251,00

38,26

68,00

10,37

Toulouse-Montpellier

104,00

15,85

161,00

24,54

172,00

26,22

234,00

35,67

62,00

9,45

Reims-Genève (A5/A39)

242,00

36,89

307,00

46,80

460,00

70,13

625,00

95,28

145,00

22,11

Reims-Genève (A5/A6/A40)

242,00

36,89

307,00

46,80

460,00

70,13

625,00

95,28

145,00

22,11

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Annex 2

Member-organisations of ASECAP, the European organisation of motorway toll-operators and concessionaries.

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AUTRICHE
Sekretariat für Österreich:
ÖSAG,
Österreichische Autobahnen- und Schnellstraßen-AG
Alpenstraße 94 5033 Salzburg Pf.74
( : 43 (662) 620 511 ---- 2 43 (662) 620 511 59

BELGIQUE
NV,
Tunnel Liefkenshoek
Haven 1968 Sint Annalaan 1 , B - 9130 Kallo
( 32 (3) 575 07 00 ---- 2 32 (3) 575 07 01

ESPAGNE
ASETA
: Asociación de Sociedades Españolas Concesionarias de Autopistas, Túneles, Puentes y Vías de Peaje.
c/ Estébanez Calderón, 3 - 3B - 28020 Madrid
( 34 91 571 62 58 ---- 2 34 91 571 11 22
http://www.aseta.es
email:
aseta@aseta.es

FRANCE
ASFA
Association des Sociétés Françaises d’Autoroutes
3, rue Edmond Valentin 75007 Paris
( 33 (1) 47 53 37 00 ---- 2 33 (1) 45 55 84 88
http://www.autoroutes.fr
email:
asfa@autoroutes.fr

GRÈCE
TEO
: Fonds Routier National Hellénique
Patission Street 187 ---- 11253 Athens
( 30 (1) 86 20 215 ---- 2 30 (1) 86 20 170

HONGRIE
ELMKA Rt
. Elsö Magyar Koncessziós Autópálya Rt. (
Házmán utca 11. ---- Budapest H-1026
( 36 (1) 2008450 ---- 2 36 (1)2008449
email:
100324.2145@compuserve.com

ITALIE
AISCAT
: Associazione Italiana Società Concessionarie Autostrade e Trafori
Via Sardegna 40 ---- 00187 Roma
( 39 (6) 48 27 163 ---- 2 39 (6) 47 46 968
http://www.aiscat.it
email:
aiscat@mclink.it

NORVÈGE
NORVEGFINANS
: Norske Vegfinansieringsselskapers Forening
P.O. Box 176 ---- N - 5430 Bremnes
( 47 53 42 80 10 ---- 2 47 53 42 80 15

PORTUGAL
Brisa
, Auto-Estradas de Portugal S.A.
Quinta da Torre da Aguilha-Ed.Brisa Apartado 250
2775 São Domingos de Rana
( 351 (1) 444 85 00 ----2351 (1) 444 88 40
http://www.brisa.pt

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Annex 3

Example: Real changes in cost of transport and in disposable income, UK 1974 – 1999.

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[1]        Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on the Carriage of Goods and Passengers by Rail and Roads. As it is not ratified yet, it is not officially published as a European legal document. It can be downloaded from the website of the Swiss Federal administration in German, French, Italian and English (http://www.europa.admin.ch/neue_site/e/index_bilat.html).

[2]        This function is not foreseen yet, neither has a final political decision being taken with regard to a special HGV tax on alpine transit routes.

[3]        Personal communication with Mr De Bruin (TLN).