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Tachograph * Ireland - Offences avoid penalty points
Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -November 12, 2009: -- Tachograph offences haven’t been included in the Road Traffic Bill 2009, which was published last month, despite the efforts of the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to have them included... The RSA had lobbied for the inclusion of a number of haulage-related road traffic offences to be included in the new Bill. However, the Department of Transport made the decision to maintain the Status Quo... The RSA campaigned that using penalty points, rather than mandatory court prosecution, offers a number of advantages including the opportunity for graduated penalties depending on the severity of the offence... The European Commission has already categorised certain offences for tachographs and drivers’ hours rules as “minor, serious and very serious”... A second benefit is it would address the absence of a system to prosecute non-Irish licensed operators, a scenario which the RSA says discriminates against Irish operators... Under EU law there is an obligation on the State to enforce tachograph and drivers’ hours legislation without discriminating on the nationality of the driver or those with out-of-State licences... (Photo from roadtransport/big-lorry-blog: Driver hours)
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