SECTORAL POLICIES / Transport

After three years of negotiations, EU Council adopts its position on revision of Eurovignette Directive

Brussels, 18/12/2020 (Agence Europe)

On Friday 18 December, the ambassadors of the Member States to the EU (Coreper) approved the EU Council’s negotiating mandate on the revision of the Eurovignette Directive concerning taxation of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructure.

At the beginning of the month, the text received the green light from 26 of the 27 European Transport Ministers (see EUROPE B12618A12). Only Austria was formally opposed to it.

The adopted negotiating mandate corresponds to the third text...