Translation of "droit d'accise sur les véhicules à moteur " (French → English) :

Summary code: Employment and social policy / Employment rights and work organisation / Organisation of working time / Sectoral provisions Internal market / Single Market for Goods / Motor vehicles / Technical implications of road safety / Specific provisions Transport / Road transport / Employment and working conditions

declare that, by prohibiting the registration of passenger cars whose steering wheel is mounted on the right-hand side and/or requiring prior to registration that a steering wheel mounted on the right-hand side of a new passenger car or of a passenger car previously registered in another Member State be transferred to the left-hand side, the Republic of Lithuania has failed to fulfil its obligations under Council Directive 70/311/EEC (1) of 8 June 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the steering equipment for motor vehicles and their trailers, Directive 2007/46/EC (2) of the Europea ...[+++]n Parliament and of the Council of 5 September 2007 establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, and Article 34 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

According to the Texan Code, motor fuels including diesel fuel are subject to a state excise tax.

In many cases the transmission of personal data by the judiciary, police or customs to private parties is necessary to prosecute crime or to prevent an immediate and serious threat to public security or to prevent serious harm to the rights of individuals, for example, by issuing alerts concerning forgeries of securities to banks and credit institutions, or, in the area of vehicle crime, by communicating personal data to insurance companies in order to prevent illicit trafficking in stolen motor ...[+++] vehicles or to improve the conditions for the recovery of stolen motor vehicles from abroad.

Any future decision on this question should take full account of the tax burden already borne by road haulage companies, including vehicle taxes and fuel excise duties.

The methanol car which as was mentioned earlier is still somewhat a theoretical possibility is handicapped by the higher vehicle costs but does become competitive at least vis-à-vis diesel powered vehicles if all excise taxes are removed.