Case C-155/22, Bezirkshauptmannschaft Lilienfeld: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 11 May 2023 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Niederösterreich — Austria) — RE v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Lilienfeld (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Road transport — Common rules concerning the conditions to be complied with to pursue the occupation of road transport operator — Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 — Articles 6 and 22 — National legislation permitting the transfer of criminal responsibility for serious infringements regarding the driving time and rest periods of drivers — Failure to take into account the penalties imposed for infringements when assessing the good repute of a road transport undertaking)
Date: 2023-05-11
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: access to a profession, criminal liability, drivers, driving period, penalty, rest period, road safety, road transport, traffic offence, transport company








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26.6.2023   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 223/4






Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 11 May 2023 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesverwaltungsgericht Niederösterreich — Austria) — RE v Bezirkshauptmannschaft Lilienfeld
(Case C-155/22, (1) Bezirkshauptmannschaft Lilienfeld)
(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Road transport - Common rules concerning the conditions to be complied with to pursue the occupation of road transport operator - Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 - Articles 6 and 22 - National legislation permitting the transfer of criminal responsibility for serious infringements regarding the driving time and rest periods of drivers - Failure to take into account the penalties imposed for infringements when assessing the good repute of a road transport undertaking)
(2023/C 223/05)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Landesverwaltungsgericht Niederösterreich

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: RE

Defendant: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Lilienfeld

intervening party: Arbeitsinspektorat NÖ Wald- und Mostviertel

Operative part of the judgment

Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing common rules concerning the conditions to be complied with to pursue the occupation of road transport operator and repealing Council Directive 96/26/EC, as amended by Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 of 13 May 2013, read in conjunction with Article 6(1) of Regulation No 1071/2009, as amended,
must be interpreted as precluding a national law pursuant to which a person that incurs criminal responsibility for infringements committed within a road transport undertaking and whose conduct is taken into account for the purpose of assessing the good repute of that undertaking may designate a person as an agent responsible for compliance with the provisions of EU law concerning the driving time and rest periods of drivers, thereby transferring to that person criminal responsibility for infringements of those provisions of EU law, where the national law does not permit the infringements imputed to that agent to be taken into account for the purpose of assessing whether that undertaking meets the requirement of good repute.


(1)  OJ C 222, 7.6.2022.