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L 274/2

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Official Journal of the European Union
24.10.2022

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Member States should ensure a sufficient level of checks on the vehicles concerned throughout their territory while, where possible, avoiding the proliferation of such checks.

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Checks should be carried out using a list of common items applicable to the transport of dangerous goods throughout the Union.

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It is necessary to lay down a list of infringements deemed sufficiently serious by all Member States to result in the application to the vehicles concerned of appropriate measures depending on the circumstances or the requirements of safety, including, where appropriate, refusal to admit the vehicles concerned to the Union.

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In order to ensure compliance with safety standards for the transport of dangerous goods by road, it is necessary to provide for checks to be carried out in undertakings as a preventive measure or when serious infringements of laws on the transport of dangerous goods have been recorded at the roadside.

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The checks in question should apply to all consignments of dangerous goods transported by road wholly or partly within the territory of the Member States, irrespective of the point of departure or the destination of the goods or the country in which the vehicle is registered.

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In the event of serious or repeated infringements, the competent authorities of the Member State in which the vehicle is registered or in which the undertaking is established may be asked to take appropriate measures and they should inform the requesting Member State of any follow-up measures taken.

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The application of this Directive should be monitored on the basis of a report to be submitted by the Commission.

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In order to adapt this Directive to scientific and technical progress, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of amending Annexes I, II and III to this Directive, in particular to take account of amendments to Directive 2008/68/EC. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making 8. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts.

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Since the objective of this Directive, namely providing for a high level of safety as regards the transport of dangerous goods, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale or effects of such an action, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.

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This Directive should be without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for the transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Part B of Annex IV,
HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1
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This Directive applies to checks carried out by Member States on the transport of dangerous goods by road in vehicles travelling in their territory or entering it from a third country.
It does not apply to the transport of dangerous goods by vehicles belonging to or under the responsibility of the armed forces.
8 OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1.