The Heavy Goods Vehicles (Charging for the Use of Certain Infrastructure on the Trans-European Road Network) Regulations 2009

Arrangements for the collection of tolls and user charges U.K.

15.—(1) The operator in relation to a toll or user charge must ensure that such tolls or user charges are collected in such a way as to cause as little hindrance as possible to the free flow of traffic F1 ....

(2) The appropriate national authority in relation to each user charge to which these Regulations apply must co-operate with the authorities in F2 ... EEA States to establish methods for enabling hauliers to pay those user charges 24 hours a day, at least at the [F3 major sales outlets, using common means of payment].

(3) Where an operator has facilities at the point of payment for a toll or user charge, the operator must ensure that those facilities are adequate to maintain normal road safety standards.

(4) An operator must ensure that its arrangements for collecting tolls or user charges do not, financially or otherwise, place non-regular users of the section of infrastructure, in relation to which the toll or user charge is levied, at an unjustified disadvantage.

[F4 (5) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (4), where an operator collects tolls or user charges exclusively by means of a vehicle on-board unit, the operator must make units that comply with the requirements of the Interoperability Directive available, under reasonable administrative and economic arrangements, to all users of the section of the infrastructure in relation to which the toll or user charge is levied.]

[F5 (6) Where an operator levies a toll the operator must indicate in a receipt provided to the user, by electronic means wherever possible, the following details–

(a) the total amount of the toll, and

(b) the amounts, if levied, of the infrastructure charge and the amount of the external-cost charge that make up the toll.]

[F5 (7) Where economically feasible, an operator must levy and collect the external-cost charge by means of an electronic system which complies with the requirements of Article 2(1) of the Interoperability Directive.]

[F5 (8) In this regulation the Interoperability Directive means Directive 2004/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29th April 2004 on the interoperability of electronic road toll systems in the Community .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 15(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Heavy Goods Vehicles (Charging for the Use of Certain Infrastructure on the Trans-European Road Network) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1352), regs. 1, 2(8)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Word in reg. 15(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Heavy Goods Vehicles (Charging for the Use of Certain Infrastructure on the Trans-European Road Network) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1352), regs. 1, 2(8)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in reg. 15(2) substituted (7.10.2014) by The Heavy Goods Vehicles (Charging for the Use of Certain Infrastructure on the Trans-European Road Network) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2437), regs. 1, 2(17)(a)

F4 Reg. 15(5) substituted (7.10.2014) by The Heavy Goods Vehicles (Charging for the Use of Certain Infrastructure on the Trans-European Road Network) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2437), regs. 1, 2(17)(b)

F5 Reg. 15(6)-(8) inserted (7.10.2014) by The Heavy Goods Vehicles (Charging for the Use of Certain Infrastructure on the Trans-European Road Network) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2437), regs. 1, 2(17)(c)