Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the application by the member states of Council Directive 95/50/EC on uniform procedures for checks on the transport of dangerous goods by road
Date: 2005-09-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Council of the European Union, EC Directive, application of EU law, report, road safety, road transport, transport of dangerous goods, transport safety

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

Brussels, 15.9.2005 
COM(2005) 430 final 

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT  
AND THE COUNCIL 

ON THE APPLICATION BY THE MEMBER STATES OF COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 
95/50/EC ON UNIFORM PROCEDURES FOR CHECKS ON THE TRANSPORT OF 
DANGEROUS GOODS BY ROAD 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

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INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 3 

BACKGROUND ......................................................................................................... 3 

DIRECTIVE 95/50/EC ................................................................................................ 4 

REPORTS FROM THE MEMBER STATES ............................................................. 4 

CALCULATION OF DATA ....................................................................................... 5 

THE LEVEL OF CHECKS IN THE MEMBER STATES ......................................... 5 

THE PROPORTION OF TRANSPORT OPERATIONS INFRINGING THE 
LEGISLATION ........................................................................................................... 6 

TYPES OF INFRINGEMENTS .................................................................................. 7 

TYPES OF PENALTIES ............................................................................................. 8 

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CONCLUSIONS.......................................................................................................... 8 

ANNEX I TIME SERIES (1997-2002) OF THE NUMBER OF CHECKS, INFRINGEMENTS 
AND PENALTIES REGISTERED IN EACH MEMBER STATE.............................................. 10 

ANNEX II SUMMARY OF CHECKS, INFRINGEMENTS AND PENALTIES IN THE 
EUROPEAN UNION (1999-2002)........................................................................................... 11 

ANNEX III NUMBER OF CHECKS PER NUMBER OF JOURNEYS MADE BY VEHICLES 
TRANSPORTING DANGEROUS GOODS (%) ....................................................................... 12 

ANNEX IV NUMBER OF CHECKS AND PROPORTION OF FOREIGN VEHICLES 
CHECKED (1999-2002) .......................................................................................................... 13 

ANNEX V NUMBER OF INFRINGEMENTS / NUMBER OF CHECKS............................... 14 

ANNEX VI INFRINGEMENTS BY TYPE (%)........................................................................ 15 

ANNEX VII PENALTIES BY TYPE (%) ................................................................................. 16 

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1. 

INTRODUCTION 

Council Directive 95/50/EC on uniform procedures for checks on the transport of dangerous 
goods by road was adopted on 6 October 19951 and Member States had to bring into force the 
laws,  regulations  and  administrative  provisions  necessary  to  comply  with  it  by  1  January 
1997. 

Directive  95/50/EC  provides  that  each  Member  State  has  to  send  the  Commission  for  each 
calendar year not later than twelve months after the end of that year a report on the application 
of this Directive2. The Directive also provides that the Commission has to send the European 
Parliament  and  the  Council  at  least  every  three  years  a  report  on  the  application  of  the 
Directive by the Member States3.  

The  report  from  the  Commission  is  based  on  the  annual  reports  received  from  the  Member 
States.  This  is  the  second  report  on  the  application  of  Council  Directive  95/50/EC  in  the 
Member States and it covers the years 1999-2002. The first report4 covered the years 1997-
1998. 

The  Commission  feels  that  this  report,  which  analyses  two  two-year  periods,  allows  a 
meaningful  analysis  and  justifies  the  time  taken  to  produce  it,  since  the  first  report  covered 
only  the  first  two  years  of  the  application  of  the  Directive.  Moreover,  as  the  statistical 
classification (Annexes to the Directive) is to change from 20055; the third report will cover 
the last two years of the current type of Annexes to the Directive. 

2. 

BACKGROUND 

Council  Directive  94/55/EC  of  21  November  1994  on  the  approximation  of  the  laws  of  the 
Member  States  with  regard  to  the  transport  of  dangerous  goods  by  road6,  as  amended7, 
introduced harmonised rules for the transportation of dangerous goods between the Member 
States as well as nationally within the Member States. 

The technical annexes to Directive 94/55/EC are identical in terms of content to the technical 
annexes to the international ADR-agreement8. Therefore, Directive 94/55/EC transposes into 
Community law the technical provisions of the ADR, which lays down uniform rules for the 
safe international transport of dangerous goods by road. The added value of the Directive is 
that  it  also  extends  these  rules  to  cover  national  traffic  in  order  to  harmonise  across  the 

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OJ No L 249, 17.10.1995, p. 35, as last amended by Commission Directive 2004/112/EC of 13 
December 2004 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 95/50/EC (OJ No L 367, 14.12.2004, 
p. 23)  
Article 9(1) thereof 
Article 9(2) thereof 
COM(2000) 517 final, 06.09.2000 
Commission Directive 2004/112/EC of 13 December 2004 adapting to technical progress Council 
Directive 95/50/EC (OJ No L 367, 14.12.2004, p. 23)  
OJ No L 319, 12.12.1994, p. 7, Annexes A and B to it published in OJ No L 275, 28.10.1996 
Directive last amended by Commission Directive 2004/111/EC of 9 December 2004 adapting to 
technical progress Council Directive 94/55/EC (OJ No L 365, 10.12.2004, p. 25) 
European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road concluded at 
Geneva on 30 September 1957, as amended, the latest version being the 2005 version. 

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Community the conditions under which dangerous goods are transported by road and thereby 
to improve, at the same time, road safety at national level. 

Annex  A  to  Directive  94/55/EC  lists  the  dangerous  goods  that  may  be  carried  by  road  and 
gives  rules  for  packaging,  labelling  and  for  describing  goods  in  the  transport  documents. 
Annex B sets out the rules governing the vehicles and transport operations. 

3. 

DIRECTIVE 95/50/EC 

In the context of Directive 94/55/EC, and in order to further improve the level of safety in the 
transport of dangerous goods and to ensure that a sufficient level of checks is carried out in a 
harmonised  way,  the  Council  adopted  on  6  October  1995  Directive  95/50/EC  on  uniform 
procedures for  checks on the  transport of dangerous goods by road. This Directive includes 
the  harmonised  checklist  used  by  Member  States  as  well  as  the  harmonised  list  of 
infringement  codes.  This  enables  a  reliable  comparison  to  be  made  of  enforcement  in  the 
respective Member States. 

These uniform checks relate to all road transport activities concerning dangerous goods in the 
territory of a Member State or entering it from third countries, irrespective of the country of 
registration of the vehicle. The Directive aims at ensuring that a representative proportion of 
consignments of dangerous goods transported by road is randomly checked, while at the same 
time covering an extensive portion of the road network. 

As  a  preventive  measure,  or  after  having  recorded  infringements  at  the  roadside  which 
jeopardise safety, checks may be also carried out at the premises of undertakings. 

4. 

REPORTS FROM THE MEMBER STATES 

Not  all  Member  States  have  sent  reports  for  all  years  in  the  period  1999-2002,  and  some 
Member States have sent no reports. 

Member States which submitted reports for 
all years in the period 1999-2002 

Member States which submitted reports for 
part of the period 1999-2002 

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Italy, 
Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden, 
United Kingdom 
Ireland (20029), Portugal (2000, 2001, 2002) 

Member States which did not submit any 
reports for the period 1999-2002 

Greece, France, Luxembourg10 

When  making  their  reports,  the  Member  States  were  invited  to  use  the  harmonised 
infringement codes in Annex II to the Directive and to present the report in accordance with 
Annex III of the Directive. Not all Member States followed this pattern. Some Member States 
used the codes from the checklist (Annex I to the Directive), some had their own system of 
grouping  the  infringements,  as  had  also  been  the  case  in  the  previous  report.  Therefore,  as 

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Ireland implemented the Directive only as from 2001. 
Luxembourg only sent summary data regarding the total number of checks and infringements 
registered. 

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with  the  previous  report,  these  data  had  to  be  converted  into  the  harmonised  codes.  For 
infringements  that  did  not  correspond  to  any  of  the  13  codes,  code  14  denoting  "Other 
infringements" was used. 

The summary of the reports is given in Annexes I and II to this report. Annex I contains time 
series of the number of checks, infringements and penalties registered in each Member State 
from 1997 to 2002. Annex II contains information on the number of vehicles checked and the 
number and types of infringements, as well as the number and types of penalties, all classified 
geographically  (i.e.  whether  the  checked  vehicle  was  registered  in  the  Member  State  which 
performed  the  check  or  in  another  Member  State  or  in  a  third  country).  Under  the  types  of 
penalties,  cases  where  the  vehicle  was  not  allowed  to  continue  its  journey  until  the 
infringement had been fully remedied were classified as warnings. 

5. 

CALCULATION OF DATA 

Member  States  were  required  to  give  their  estimate  of  the  amount  of  transportation  of 
dangerous  goods  in  tonnes  or  in  tonnes-kilometres  in  their  report.  Actually,  hardly  any 
Member States provided this information, so a proportion of 6 % of all goods transported was 
used as a constant average value for estimating the amount of transported dangerous goods11. 
Furthermore, an average journey of 110 kilometres and an average load of dangerous goods 
of 10 tonnes were used in the calculations. 

On the basis of these data the number of journeys made by vehicles transporting dangerous 
goods was calculated. This figure was correlated with the number of checks in the country to 
obtain information about the frequency of checks as a percentage of the number of checks per 
number of journeys (Annex III). 

6. 

THE LEVEL OF CHECKS IN THE MEMBER STATES 

One of the aims of the Directive is to further improve the level of safety by ensuring that a 
sufficient level of checks is carried out. In order to estimate the level of checks and to assess 
its development, the frequency of road checks in the Member States in the period 1999-2002 
is compared, in a chart, with the frequency calculated for the period 1997-1998 (Annex III). 

On basis of this chart it can be concluded that: 

1)  The  frequency  of  checks  in  the  European  Union  as  a  whole  has  decreased  from  0.27  % 
(1997-1998) to 0.23 % (1999-2002). 

2)  In  Germany,  Spain,  Luxembourg,  Austria  and  Sweden  the  frequency  of  checks  in  the 
period 1999-2002 is over 0.20 %, in Belgium, Netherlands, and Finland it is about 0.10 % and 
in the United Kingdom 0.05 %; in the other countries it is 0.02 % or even less. However, it 
should be noted that a significant proportion of the available enforcement capacity in the UK 

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The data concerning all goods transported come from the statistical handbook "2004 EU Energy and 
Transport in Figures", issued by Eurostat. The data on Sweden and the United Kingdom, available only 
for the national operators, were arranged, in order to consider all the carriers, assuming that the national 
carriers transported 70% of the total amount of goods in ton-km. 

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and  the  Netherlands  is  used  to  carry  out  checks  at  the  premises,  and  these  checks  are  also 
based on Article 6 of Directive 95/50/EC. 

3) In the countries where the level of checks is highest, it is roughly 20 times higher than in 
the countries where the level is lowest. 

It should be noted that the figures were calculated assuming that for a Member State that did 
not submit a report the annual number of checks is equal to zero. However, even if the data on 
journeys in the missing reports are not taken into consideration, the picture does not change 
radically,  mainly because  the  missing reports represent the same amount of journeys (about 
20 %) both in the period 1997-1998 and in 1999-2002. 

In order to assess the equivalence of checks as between domestic and foreign operators, the 
checks performed by each Member State and the proportion of foreign vehicles checked are 
presented  in  Annex  IV.  This  proportion  does,  indeed,  vary  considerably.  However,  as  the 
largest proportion of foreign vehicles checked are in the transit countries, the proportions still 
seem  reasonable  taking  into  account  geographical  positions.  Therefore  it  may  be  concluded 
that there is no indication that the checks are not balanced in this respect. 

7. 

THE  PROPORTION  OF  TRANSPORT  OPERATIONS  INFRINGING  THE 
LEGISLATION 

The proportion of transport operations infringing the legislation was calculated by relating all 
infringements  (whether  concerning  the  vehicle,  the  driver,  the  documentation  or  the 
transported goods) to the checked vehicle and assuming that there was only one infringement 
per vehicle. As there may have been more than one infringement per vehicle, this may give an 
artificially  high  figure.  The  information  on  the  proportion  of  infringements  in  the  period 
1999-2002 has been put into a chart, together with the information for the period 1997-1998, 
in Annex V. 

On the basis of this chart it can be concluded that: 

1) the ratio of the number of infringements to the number of checks in the European Union as 
a whole has increased from 0.22 (1997-1998) to 0.26 (1999-2002);  

2) depending on the country, the ratio of the number of infringements to the number of checks 
in the period 1999-2002 ranged from 0.10 to over 1.00; 

3)  in  Belgium,  Ireland,  the  Netherlands,  Austria,  Portugal,  Finland  and  Sweden  the  ratio  of 
the number of infringements to the number of checks in the period 1999-2002 is significantly 
higher than the EU average (0.26), whereas in the other countries it is about 0.10 – 0.20. 

The figures clearly show that the road checks are necessary and constitute an important tool 
for improving safety in the transport of dangerous goods. 

When  comparing  the  frequency  (proportion)  of  checks  (Annex  III)  with  the  proportion  of 
infringements (Annex V), no correlation can be found.  

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8. 

TYPES OF INFRINGEMENTS 

The types of infringements are categorised using the 13 harmonised codes in Annex II to the 
Directive. In addition, a further code 14 (Other/Unknown) is used for infringements which do 
not correspond to any of the 13 defined categories. Consequently, the 14 codes used are the 
same as in the previous report:  

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14. 

Goods not authorised for transport; 

Absence  of  consignor's  declaration  on  the  conformity  of  the  goods  and  their 
packaging with transport regulations; 

Vehicles which, on checking, display leaks of dangerous substances due to the lack 
of leakproof integrity of tanks or packages; 

Vehicles with no type-approval certificate or with a non-regulation certificate; 

Vehicles lacking appropriate orange panels or with non-regulation orange panels; 

Vehicles without safety instructions or with inappropriate ones; 

Inappropriate vehicle or packaging; 

Driver  without  a  regulation  vocational  training  certificate  for  the  carriage  of 
dangerous goods by road; 

Vehicles lacking fire extinguishers; 

Vehicles or packages without regulation danger labels; 

Vehicles  lacking  transport/accompanying  documents,  or  with  particulars  relating  to 
the dangerous goods on board which are not in compliance with the regulations; 

Vehicles not covered by a bilateral/multilateral agreement or not in compliance with 
the agreement; 

Overfilling of tank; 

Other infringements. 

The figures on infringements for the period 1999-2002 are given in Annex II and in the graph 
in Annex VI, which also illustrates the figures for the period 1997-1998, for the purposes of 
comparison. 

Numerically,  the  most  significant  infringements  (more  than  5  %  of  the  total)  in  the  period 
1999-2002 are the following: 

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11. 

Vehicles  lacking  appropriate  orange  panels  or  with  non-regulation  orange  panels 
(11 %); 

Vehicles  lacking  transport/accompanying  documents,  or  with  particulars  relating  to 
the  dangerous  goods  on  board  which  are  not  in  compliance  with  the  regulations 
(13 %); 

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14. 

Other infringements (58 %). 

On  the  basis  of  these  results,  it  may  be  concluded,  with  even  more  evidence  than  in  the 
previous  report,  that  not  all  the  infringement  codes  in  Annex  II  to  the  Directive  are 
appropriate;  in  fact,  the  largest  proportion  of  infringements  is  classified  as  "other 
infringements" and has also increased from 44 % (1997-1998) to 58 % (1999-2002). This is 
due in part to the fact that many points in the checklist in Annex I to the Directive and used by 
the enforcing authorities are not taken into account in the infringement codes. An example of 
this is that, when checking the equipment of the vehicle and the equipment for the driver, only 
the absence of fire extinguishers covered by a harmonised code; thus, all other faults have to 
be  classified  as  "other  infringements".  It  seems  that  some  infringements  of  the  code  never 
occur  at  all,  e.g.  overfilling  of  tank.  On  basis  of  this,  consideration  has  been  given  to 
amending Annexes I and II to the Directive. 

9. 

TYPES OF PENALTIES 

The  Member  States  use  four  different  kinds  of  penalties:  warning,  fine,  prosecution  and 
prison sentence. 

The  most  commonly  used  penalties  are  imposed  directly  by  the  enforcement  authorities. 
These  include  an  oral  or  written  warning,  to  which  may  be  added  a  ban  on  continuing  the 
journey until the infringement has been corrected, and a fine. 

A  prosecution  may  result  in  an  acquittal,  a  fine  and  ultimately,  in  some  cases,  a  prison 
sentence. 

The  fine  is  the  most  common  penalty  in  use and  represents  69  %  of  the  penalties  imposed. 
Ranked second are warnings, with or without required corrective action (30 %). Prosecution 
has been reported for 1 % of the cases, whilst prison sentences seem not to occur at all. These 
proportions, for the period 1999-2002, are shown in the table in Annex II and in the graph in 
Annex VII.  

Annex VII illustrates also the figures for the period 1997-1998. Compared to that period, in 
1999-2002  warnings  increased  by  5  %  and  both  fines  and  prosecutions  decreased, 
respectively by 1 % and 3 %. 

Statistics  on  penalties  show  that  most  infringement  cases  are  deemed  not  too  serious,  since 
prosecutions are rare; on the other hand, about two thirds are deemed sufficiently serious to 
warrant a fine. 

10. 

CONCLUSIONS 

Although  most  of  the  Member  States  performed  roadside  checks  on  the  transport  of 
dangerous  goods  in  the  period  1999-2002,  the  frequency  of  checks  varies  considerably 
between Member States. Some Member States performed no checks, or at least have not sent 
reports of any checks to the Commission. The frequency of checks in the European Union as 
a whole has decreased. 

Justification for checks is clearly seen in the proportion of vehicles found during checks to be 
infringing the legislation: the ratio of the number of infringements to the number of checks in 

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the  European  Union  as  a  whole  has  increased  from  0.22  (1997-1998)  to  0.26  (1999-2002). 
This clearly shows that the frequency of checks ought to be higher in some countries, even if 
no  direct  correlation  between  the  frequency  of  checks  and  the  number  of  infringements  has 
been found.  

The  most  common  infringements  are  lack  of  transport  documents  concerning  the  load  of 
dangerous goods and lack of orange panels showing that the vehicle is transporting dangerous 
goods. On the other hand, many categories of infringements hardly ever occur. The majority 
of  infringements  were  classified  under  "Others",  owing  to  the  incompatibility  between  the 
checklist  used  by  the  enforcement  authorities  and  the  harmonised  codes.  This  fact  alone 
justifies the modification of both lists as from 2005 and the amendments to Annexes I and II 
to Directive 95/50/EC12.  

The  most  common  penalty  was  a  fine  followed  by  a  warning,  which  may  have  been 
supplemented by a ban on continuing the journey unless the infringement was corrected. 

On the basis of this report the Commission stresses that road checks are an effective tool in 
revealing  the  problems  connected  with  the  safety  of  the  transport  of  dangerous  goods  and, 
indirectly, in improving it. However, checks conducted in premises by some Member States 
are obviously an equally effective way of enforcement, although this is not apparent from the 
annexes to this report. Finally, the Commission would like to point out to the Member States 
that  the  harmonised  infringement  codes  should  be  used  in  the  reports  and  that  the  reports 
should be sent to the Commission by all Member States. 

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Commission Directive 2004/112/EC of 13 December 2004 adapting to technical progress Council 
Directive 95/50/EC (OJ No L 367, 14.12.2004, p. 23)  

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ANNEX I 

TIME SERIES (1997-2002) OF THE NUMBER OF CHECKS, INFRINGEMENTS AND 
PENALTIES REGISTERED IN EACH MEMBER STATE 

COUNTRY 

1997 

1998 

1999 

2000 

BE 

DK 

DE 

EL 

ES 

FR 

IE 

IT 

LU 

NL 

AT 

PT 

FI 

SE 

UK 

Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 
Checks 
Infring. 
Penalties 

2544 
2243 
0 
274 
67 
67 

1163 
1331 
0 
275 
80 
66 

1624 
1548 
0 
251 
70 
73 

2414 
2450 
0 
242 
28 
28 
126533  129758  131161  115786 
21467 
21849 
14144 
19408 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
38759 
23900 
5569 
3205 
0 
0 
0 
19561 
0 
1919 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2459 
0 
347 
0 
347 
0 
451 
203 
44 
52 
0 
12 
3145 
3521 
4889 
1586 
1158 
1419 
7666 
5698 
10542 
3834 
7514 
2317 
135 
0 
43 
0 
0 
0 
1849 
1602 
763 
573 
761 
776 
7263 
8125 
2929 
4509 
1833 
2140 
7087 
6011 
660 
1817 
11 
237 

24020 
17701 
0 
0 
0 
28037 
2975 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1797 
440 
440 
286 
52 
4 
2266 
656 
481 
6062 
6043 
3094 
0 
0 
0 
1723 
1109 
1338 
7839 
4041 
2152 
9016 
1308 
131 

24351 
19014 
0 
0 
0 
32849 
4342 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2389 
333 
333 
203 
4 
0 
2416 
1275 
931 
6720 
11913 
5630 
0 
0 
0 
1437 
745 
623 
6669 
3096 
1758 
7928 
1041 
93 

2001 

2762 
2582 
0 
94 
47 
40 
98005 
18279 
14773 
0 
0 
0 
40013 
6319 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2514 
296 
296 
454 
37 
0 
1429 
2149 
711 
5940 
6923 
3825 
150 
116 
0 
1690 
637 
615 
6283 
3447 
1435 
6616 
972 
261 

2002 

2594 
2338 
0 
203 
25 
25 
93247 
19929 
14903 
0 
0 
0 
34423 
5087 
0 
0 
0 
0 
435 
269 
203 
2528 
247 
247 
228 
18 
0 
4510 
3287 
1209 
6671 
8271 
2647 
78 
60 
0 
1739 
666 
496 
5995 
3087 
1186 
4985 
806 
234 

‘97-'98 
2787 
2879 
0 
526 
150 
139 
256291 
45869 
37109 
0 
0 
0 
51937 
6180 
0 
19561 
1919 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1797 
440 
440 
489 
104 
16 
5787 
2242 
1900 
11760 
9877 
5411 
0 
0 
0 
3325 
1682 
2114 
15964 
8550 
4292 
15027 
3125 
368 

‘99-'00 
4958 
4693 
0 
516 
95 
95 
246947 
45818 
33158 
0 
0 
0 
71608 
9911 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
4848 
680 
680 
654 
48 
0 
5561 
6164 
2089 
14386 
22455 
13144 
135 
43 
0 
3286 
1508 
1384 
13932 
6025 
3591 
15015 
1701 
104 

‘01-'02 
5356 
4920 
0 
297 
72 
65 
191252 
38208 
29676 
0 
0 
0 
74436 
11406 
0 
0 
0 
0 
435 
269 
203 
5042 
543 
543 
682 
55 
0 
5939 
5436 
1920 
12611 
15194 
6472 
228 
176 
0 
3429 
1303 
1111 
12278 
6534 
2621 
11601 
1778 
495 

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ANNEX II 

SUMMARY OF CHECKS, INFRINGEMENTS AND PENALTIES IN THE EUROPEAN 
UNION (1999-2002) 

ALL EU, 1999-2002 

Country 
of check 

Other 
EU 

Non EU 

Not 
known 

Total 

% 

No. OF VEHICLES CHECKED 

509973 

122696 

68081 

4682 

705432 

100,00 

No. OF INFRINGEMENTS 

90545 

27797 

24115 

42578 

185035 

100,00 

1. Goods not authorized 

284 

23 

2. Absence of consignor's declaration 

1086 

181 

3. Leaks 

4. No type-approval certificate 

104 

606 

33 

77 

25 

161 

40 

455 

495 

458 

787 

0,43 

1923 

1,04 

635 

0,34 

101 

1399 

2183 

1,18 

5. No orange panels 

10887 

3301 

2346 

4123 

20657 

11,16 

6. No safety instructions 

1679 

7. Inappropriate vehicle or packaging 

986 

8. No vocational training certificate 

9. No fire extinguishers 

10. No danger labels 

2193 

1722 

3280 

513 

143 

509 

480 

751 

719 

196 

545 

751 

389 

2591 

5502 

2,97 

1493 

2818 

1,52 

1254 

4501 

2,43 

4210 

7163 

3,87 

2163 

6583 

3,56 

11. No transport documents 

13268 

3570 

2828 

5034 

24700 

13,35 

12. Not covered by agreement 

13. Overfilling of tank 

96 

221 

4 

9 

5 

27 

284 

17 

389 

274 

0,21 

0,15 

14. Other 

54133 

18203 

15982 

18602 

106920 

57,78 

No. OF PENALTIES 

57660 

17581 

16053 

6057 

97351 

100,00 

Warning 

Fine 

Prosecution 

Prison sentence 

Not known 

13102 

5672 

5154 

5422 

29350 

30,15 

43671 

11853 

10850 

595 

66969 

68,79 

887 

56 

0 

0 

0 

0 

49 

0 

0 

40 

1032 

1,06 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0,00 

0,00 

EN 

11 

   EN 

 
 
 
NUMBER OF CHECKS PER NUMBER OF JOURNEYS MADE BY VEHICLES TRANSPORTING DANGEROUS GOODS (%) 

ANNEX III 

0,80

0,70

0,60

0,50

0,40

0,30

0,20

0,10

0,00

5
7
,
0

8
5
,
0

1997-1998

1999-2002

8
4
,
0

5
4
,
0

4
4
,
0

4
4
,

0

5
2
,
0

2
2

,

0

1
3
,
0

7
2
,
0

7
2
,
0

3
2
,
0

2
1
,
0

7
0
,
0

3
0
,
0

2
0
,
0

0
0
,
0

0
0
,
0

7
0
,
0

2
0

,

0

0
0
,
0

0
0
,
0

2
0
,
0

1
0
,
0

2
1
,
0

2
1
,
0

2
1
,
0

1
1
,
0

6
0
,
0

5
0
,
0

1
0
,
0

0
0
,
0

BE

DK

DE

EL

ES

FR

IE

IT

LU

NL

AT

PT

FI

SE

UK

EU

EN 

12 
EN 

 
 
 
ANNEX IV 

NUMBER OF CHECKS AND PROPORTION OF FOREIGN VEHICLES CHECKED (1999-
2002) 

Country 

Country 
of check 

Other 
EU 

Non-EU 

Not 
known 

Total Number 

1677 

10314 

BELGIUM 

7229 

1341 

DENMARK 

685 

100 

67 

23 

GERMANY 

290688 

92240 

55271 

GREECE 

SPAIN 

FRANCE 

IRELAND 

ITALY 

LUXEMBOURG 

0 

0 

0 

126663 

17102 

2279 

0 

428 

9575 

475 

0 

7 

212 

824 

0 

0 

103 

37 

5 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

813 

438199 

0 

0 

435 

9890 

1336 

NETHERLANDS 

5229 

2869 

402 

3000 

11500 

AUSTRIA 

13838 

5332 

7827 

PORTUGAL 

298 

61 

4 

FINLAND 

SWEDEN 

5481 

161 

1073 

23869 

1435 

906 

UNITED KINGDOM 

25515 

1012 

89 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

26997 

363 

6715 

26210 

26616 

146044 

13,27 

% of Checks 
on Foreign 
Vehicles 

13,65 

15,13 

33,66 

/ 

/ 

1,61 

3,19 

64,45 

28,44 

48,74 

17,91 

18,38 

8,93 

4,14 

EU 

509973 

122696 

68081 

4682 

705432 

27,04 

EN 

13 

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ANNEX V 

NUMBER OF INFRINGEMENTS / NUMBER OF CHECKS 

1997-1998

1999-2002

9
3

,

1

1
0

,

1

4
8

,

0

2
6

,

0

9
3
,
0

4
2
,
0

2
1
,
0

1
2
,
0

8
0
,
0

0
6

,

0

4
5
,
0

8
4
,
0

1
5
,
0

2
4
,
0

0
0
,
0

6
2
,
0

2
2
,
0

1
2
,
0

3
1
,
0

9
2
,
0

1
2
,
0

9
1
,
0

8
1
,
0

5
1
,
0

2
1
,
0

0
1
,
0

0
0
,
0

0
0
,
0

0
0
,
0

0
0
,
0

3
0

,

1

3
9

,

0

1,60

1,40

1,20

1,00

0,80

0,60

0,40

0,20

0,00

BE

DK

DE

EL

ES

FR

IE

IT

LU

NL

AT

PT

FI

SE

UK

EU

EN 

14 
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ANNEX VI 

INFRINGEMENTS BY TYPE (%) 

1997-1998

1999-2002

3
6
,
1
1

6
1
,
1
1

9
5
,
9
1

5
3
,
3
1

8
7
,
7
5

9
6
,
3
4

1. Goods not authorised 
2. Absence of consignor's 

declaration 

3. Leaks 
4. No type-approval certificate  
5. No orange panels  
6. No safety instructions  
7. Inappropriate vehicle or 

packaging 

8. No vocational training certificate  
9. No fire extinguishers 
10. No danger labels 
11. No transport documents 
12. Not covered by agreement  
13. Overfilling of tank 
14. Other 

7
2
,
0

3
4
,
0

0
7
,
0

4
0
,
1

3
3
,
0

4
3
,
0

8
3
,
3

8
1
,
1

2
0
,
3

7
9
,
2

8
4
,
4

2
5
,
1

3
9
,
2

3
4
,
2

0
2
,
6

7
8
,
3

4
6
,
3

6
5
,
3

4
1
,
0

1
2
,
0

0
0
,
0

5
1
,
0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15 
EN 

70,00

60,00

50,00

40,00

30,00

20,00

10,00

0,00

EN 

 
 
 
 
 
ANNEX VII 

PENALTIES BY TYPE (%) 

69,91

68,79

I. Warning 
II. Fine 
III. Prosecution 
IV. Prison 

sentence 
V. Not known 

1997-1998

1999-2002

80,00

70,00

60,00

50,00

40,00

30,00

20,00

10,00

0,00

30,15

25,39

I

II

EN 

0,06

0,00

0,17

0,00

IV

V

4,47

1,06

III

16 
EN