Translation of "Loi de 1996 sur la sécurité routière " (French → English) :

Road Safety Act, 1996 [ An Act to promote road safety by implementing commercial trucking reforms, drinking and driving countermeasures and other aspects of Ontario's comprehensive road safety plan ]

Road Safety '96

The Traffic Safety Court of Saskatchewan Act, 1988 [ An Act respecting a Traffic Safety Court for Saskatchewan | The Traffic Safety Court of Saskatchewan Act ]

To this end, a system of cross-border exchange of information should be used for certain identified road-safety-related traffic offences, regardless of their administrative or criminal nature under the law of the Member State concerned, granting the Member State of the offence access to vehicle registration data (VRD) of the Member State of registration.

To this end, a system of cross-border exchange of information should be used for certain identified road safety related traffic offences, regardless of their administrative or criminal nature under the law of the Member State concerned, granting the Member State of the offence access to vehicle registration data (VRD) of the Member State of registration.

B. whereas under Article 9 of that law drivers may not stay inside their vehicles during normal weekly rest periods, failure to comply being punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a EUR 300 000 fine for the owners of the road haulage firm concerned; whereas these provisions will be severely damaging in terms both of security, as hauliers might have to leave loaded vehicles unattended, and of road safety, given that it is difficult to find suitable parking places for heavy goods vehicles; whereas, leaving that point aside, Article 8(8) of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 on driving and rest periods stipulates that ‘where a driver chooses ...[+++]to do this, daily rest periods and reduced weekly rest periods away from base may be taken in a vehicle, as long as it has suitable sleeping facilities for each driver and the vehicle is stationary’;

Are such limitations of those principles justifiable — and, if so, under what conditions — in the light of the need to safeguard the public interest in road traffic safety and, in terms of that functional consideration, is there a proper place for the fixing of minimum operating costs as provided for under Article 83a of Legislative Decree No 112/2008 (as subsequently amended and supplemented)?