Information requirements where a concession toll is not involved
17.—(1) Paragraphs (2) to (5) apply where the responsible person in relation to a tolling arrangement is not an appropriate national authority, and the tolling arrangement—
(a)comes into effect after the date these Regulations come into force, and
(b)does not involve a concession toll.
(2) Where this paragraph applies, the responsible person must communicate to the appropriate national authority the following information—
(a)the unit values and other parameters the responsible person uses in calculating the various cost elements, and
(b)clear information on the HGVs covered by the tolling regime and the geographic extent of the network, or part of the network, used for each cost calculation and the percentage of costs that the responsible person is seeking to recover.
(3) Subject to paragraph (5), the information referred to in paragraph (2) must be communicated to the appropriate national authority at least five months before the tolling arrangement is due to come into effect.
(4) Where the appropriate national authority has received the information in accordance with paragraph (3), it must communicate the information to the European Commission at least four months before the tolling arrangement is due to come into effect.
(5) Where the tolling arrangement is due to come into effect less than five months after the date these Regulations come into force—
(a)the information referred to in paragraph (2) must be communicated to the appropriate national authority as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event before the tolling arrangement is due to come into effect, and
(b)upon receiving the information, the appropriate national authority must communicate the information to the European Commission as soon as reasonably practicable.
(6) Paragraphs (7) and (8) apply where the responsible person in relation to a tolling arrangement is an appropriate national authority, and the tolling arrangement—
(a)comes into effect after the date these Regulations come into force, and
(b)does not involve a concession toll.
(7) Subject to paragraph (8), where this paragraph applies, the responsible person must communicate to the European Commission the information referred to in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) at least four months before the tolling arrangement is due to come into effect.
(8) Where the tolling arrangement is due to come into effect less than four months after the date these Regulations come into force, the responsible person must communicate to the European Commission the information referred to in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) as soon as reasonably practicable.