CELEX: 31976D0588
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23 June 1976 modifying its Decision of 22 December 1975 authorizing Ireland to take protective measures in respect of Council Regulation (EEC) No 543/69 of 25 March 1969 on the harmonization of certain social legislation relating to road transport

No L 191 /24                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 15 . 7 . 76
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 23 June 1976
               modifying its Decision of 22 December 1975 authorizing Ireland to take protec­
               tive measures in respect of Council Regulation (EEC) No 543/69 of 25 March
                1969 on the harmonization of certain social legislation relating to road transport
                                             (Only the English text is authentic)
                                                         (76/588/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   cations, all of which led the Commission to take its
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      Decision, remain inchanged ;
 Having regard to the Act concerning the conditions of            Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1463/70 applies only
 accession and the adjustments to the Treaties, and in            to newly registered vehicles from 1 January 1976 ;
 particular Article 1 35 thereof,                                 whereas this represents only a minor additional cost to
Whereas by virtue of Acticle 133 of the Act of Acces­             the industry ; whereas the gradual introduction in the
 sion and paragraph 1 of Table III of Annex VII to the            manner planned represents an important step in
Act, the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No               education as to the benefits of the tachograph and in
 543/69 of 25 March 1969 on the harmonization of                  achieving user acceptability ; whereas the tachograph
 certain social legislation relating to national transport        introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 1463/70 is an
 operations in the new Member States is postponed                 important advance in check-up and control on social
 until 1 January 1976 ;                                           matters in road transport ; whereas no new arguments
                                                                  in this matter have been advanced since December
Whereas the Governement of Ireland requested by                    1975 ;
 letter dated 18 December 1975 authorization under
Article 135 of the Act of Accession for the taking of             Whereas, given the likelihood of an improvement in
 protective measures in the road transport sector, and            economic conditions in the relevant sectors, a proroga­
in particular for the suspension until 31 December                tion of the existing authorization of derogation for
 1977 of the application of Regulation (EEC) No                   eight months should permit the Regulation to be fully
 543/69 to national traffic ;                                     applied by the end of that period ;
Whereas the Commission in its Decision of 22                      Whereas it is appropriate that the same conditions
                                                                  continue to be attached to the authorization for dero­
December 1975 authorized Ireland to take national
measures with respect to national transport operations            gation,
for a period until 30 June 1976 derogating from Arti­
cles 6 to 12, 14 and 15 of Council Regulation (EEC)               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
No 543/69 of 25 March 1969 on the harmonization of
certain social legislation relating to road transport ;                                      Article 1
Whereas in the Decision of 22 December 1975, the                  The Decision of 22 December 1975 is modified as
Commission also laid down certain conditions as to                follows :
the maintenance of conditions at least as socially                in Article 1 ( 1 ) the date of 28 February 1977 shall be
favourable to transport workers as those already in               substituted for the date of 30 June 1976 ;
force in Ireland, as to notification of measures taken
                                                                  in Article 2 (2) the date of 1 November 1976 shall be
and as to the Commission's power to review the autho­
rization ;
                                                                  substituted for the date of 1 April 1976 ;
                                                                  in Article 3 ( 1 ) the date of 30 November 1976 shall be
Whereas     the   Government       of  Ireland   has    now       substituted for the date of 30 April 1976.
requested by letter dated 15 June 1976 prolongation
of the authorization granted by the Decision of 22                                          Article 2
December 1975 up to and including 31 December
                                                                  This Decision is addressed to Ireland .
1977 ;
Whereas the facts submitted by the Irish Government
concerning the structure of the industry, the                     Done at Brussels, 23 June 1976.
economic pressures to which it is subjected, the
                                                                                               For the Commission
adverse impact on costs which a reduction in hours
resulting from the application of the Regulation                                                Patrick J. HILLERY
would have and the damaging effects which applica­
tion of the Regulation would bring about to communi­                                               Vice-President