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Up and coming law with the HA
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Future legislation
ADR/RID harmonisation: The Health and Safety Commission has published its consultative document on the new British Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail Regulations, to align with the ADR (international) rules. The new regs will include carriers of diesel, waste carriers and parcel carriers. The Health and Safety Executive hopes to have the new regulations in place by March 2004.
Continuous registration: The government has issued detailed proposals to introduce a penalty for failing to reticence a vehicle (£80. reducing to £40 if paid within 28 days) and a new offence of being the registered keeper of an unlicensed vehicle (minimum penalty £1,000) from 1 January 2004.This will mean that the registered keeper will be liable for tax evasion whether or not the vehicle is seen on the road (CM9 October).
Lorry road user charging: The government intends to introduce a distance-based road user charge for UK and foreign vehicles using UK roads. The charge is intended to be tax neutral' by being offset against fuel duty, lobe introduced in 2006.
EU drivers' hours niles: The European Commission has published proposals for updating regulation 3820/85. The proposals aimed to introduce changes from January 2004;howeve r, this timetable is unlikely to be met (CM9 October).
Trailer registrationahe DVLA has announced proposals to introduce requirements for trailers over 1.020kg unladen weight to be registered.
Mobile phones:The Department for Transport is to introduce a specific offence for driving while holding a mobile phone from 1 December.The new offence will initially be subject to a fixed penalty of £30 or a fine on conviction of up to £1,000 (£2,500 for goods vehicles).
Working Time Sectoral Directive:The Sectoral Directive, which applies specific rules to mobile workers subject to tachograph regulations, will come into force no later than 23 March 2005. The draft UK regulations are expected in March 2004 (CM 4 September).
Driver training: EU Driver Training Directive: The European Commission has published a Directive requiring initial and periodic training of professional goods and passenger vehicle drivers. The level 2 training covers fuel economy, drivers' hours and customer service; the qualification is referred to as a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC). Member states must lay down legislation for its introduction no later than 10 September 2006 with initial training from 10 September 2009 (CM 11 September).
Speed limiters: The European Commission has proposed a directive extending the requirement for speed limiters to be fitted to vehicles over 3.5-tonnes. Fitting for new vehicles is likely to be introduced in 2005 for vehicles on international journeys, followed by staged introduction for new domestically-operated vehicles and retrofitting from 2005 to 2008.
Digital tachographs: European regulations require the fitment of digital tachographs to new vehicles from 5 August 2004. However, there is increasing concern that this timetable is unlikely to be met due to type approval issues (CM 2 October).