On the day the new provisions of the atest EU regulations came into force, 2nd February, the Catalan police (Mossos d’Esquadra) had already imposed the first fine to a driver for failing to record border crossing via tachograph. The case was reported by the Spanish freight portal forotransporteprofesional.es, who published a photo of the documentation confirming the fine.
The road transport news website writes it is aware of two occasions in which the authorities have imposed a fine for failing to record border crossings; in one case, the fine was extremely severe compared to the fines in Germany (EUR 125-250 for the driver and EUR 375-750 for the carrier), Belgium (EUR 55) and Italy (EUR 52-102) for the same infringement.
The driver was fined a hefty 1,001 euros for not entering the Spanish code in the tachograph after crossing the French-Spanish border.
Trans.INFO has since learned from the Spanish Haulage Association that the amount of the fine that was imposed for the aforementioned infringement has not yet been formally determined:
“So far, there is no specific sanction in LOTT [the Spanish Freight Act] for this violation. The government will issue a decree to regulate it in February, along with other measures adopted last December,” Juan Jose Gil, the organisation’s secretary-general, told Trans.INFO.
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