62019CJ0906_SUM
Case C‑906/19
Criminal proceedings
against
FO
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France))
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 September 2021
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Road transport – Harmonisation of certain social legislation – Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 – Article 3(a) – Non-application of the regulation to carriage by road by vehicles used for the carriage of passengers on regular services where the route covered by the service in question does not exceed 50 km – Mixed-use vehicle – Article 19(2) – Extraterritorial penalty – Infringement detected on the territory of a Member State committed on the territory of another Member State – Principle that offences and penalties must have a proper legal basis – Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 – Recording equipment in road transport – Article 15(2) – Obligation to insert the driver card – Article 15(7) – Obligation to produce the driver card whenever an authorising inspecting officer so requests – Failure to insert the driver card into the recording equipment affecting several of the 28 days preceding the day of inspection)
Transport – Road transport – Inspections – Regulation No 3821/85 – Social provisions – Regulation No 561/2006 – Scope – (European Parliament and Council Regulation No 561/2006, Art. 3(a); Council Regulation No 3821/85, Art. 15(2), (3) and (7))
(see paragraphs 32-39, operative part 1)
Transport – Road transport – Social provisions – Regulation No 561/2006 – Effective, dissuasive and non-discriminatory penalties – Infringements of Regulation No 3821/85
(Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 49(1), first sentence; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 561/2006, Art. 19(1), (2) and (4); Council Regulation No 3821/85)
(see paragraphs 41-47, operative part 2)
See the text of the decision.