Translation of "péage pour autoroutes " (French → English) :

Poland notified the Commission in August 2012 that they had overcompensated Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A (AWSA) for loss in revenue resulting from a change in national legislation on toll motorways.

Poland brought its national law in line with the Directive by amending the national legislation on toll motorways (the Act of 28 July 2005 amending the Act on toll motorways and the National Road Fund and the Road Transport Act; Journal of Laws No 155, item 1297).

4.5. Consider the possibility of allocating a percentage of vehicle taxes, motorway fees, insurance premiums, et cetera, to road safety improvements and for example, in keeping with the principle of subsidiarity, to a road safety fund.

Mr. Gilles Gagné: A toll highway has been suggested, but I think that for all sorts of reasons of fairness, interest, and so on, it would not be a good idea to build a toll highway when, between them, the federal and provincial governments could come up with the money for an additional four-lane highway. This highway is Quebec's doorway to the nation's capital.

IV. TOLLS AND USER CHARGES a) Member States may maintain or introduce tolls and/or user charges subject to the following conditions without prejudice to any regulatory charges specifically designed to combat time and place- related traffic congestion : - they may not both be imposed at the same time on a vehicle for the use of a single road section; - they may not discriminate, directly or indirectly, on the grounds of the nationality of the haulier or of origin or destination of traffic; - they do not lead to the introduction or maintenance of mandatory checks or controls at frontiers; - with the exceptions proposed in Article 4.2 o ...[+++]f the Commission proposal, they may apply only to motorways or other multi-lane roads with characteristics similar to motorways and, subject to a Community procedure, also other motor traffic roads and other sections of the primary road network where there are in particular safety reasons for doing so ; in a Member State where no general network of motorways or dual carriageways with similar characteristics exists, tolls or charges may apply to the highest category of road in that State; - a Member State may provide that vehicles registered in that State shall pay a user charge for the use of the whole road network in its territory.

Austria replied that the toll increases on the Brenner could be justified on grounds of cost increases of the entire Austrian motorway network and also stated that toll increases on partial sections of the Brenner are not desirable because they would force smaller domestic vehicles onto secondary roads.