{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-62/article-7h",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1999/62",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1999 on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-62",
  "path": "article/7h",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7h",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. At least six months before the implementation of a new infrastructure charge tolling arrangement, Member States shall send to the Commission:\n(a) for tolling arrangements other than those involving concession tolls:\nthe unit values and other parameters used in calculating the various infrastructure cost elements, and\nclear information on the vehicles covered by the tolling arrangements, the geographic extent of the network, or part of the network, used for each cost calculation, and the percentage of costs that are intended to be recovered;\n(b) for tolling arrangements involving concession tolls:\nthe concession contracts or significant changes to such contracts,\nthe base case on which the grantor has founded the notice of concession, as referred to in Annex VII B to Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts ; this base case shall include the estimated costs as defined in Article 7b(1) envisaged under the concession, the forecast traffic, broken down by type of vehicle, the levels of toll envisaged and the geographic extent of the network covered by the concession contract.\n2. Within six months of receiving all the necessary information in accordance with paragraph 1, the Commission shall give an opinion as to whether the obligations of Article 7e are complied with. The opinions of the Commission shall be made available to the Committee referred to in Article 9c.\n3. Before the implementation of a new external-cost charge tolling arrangement, Member States shall send the Commission:\n(a) precise information locating the road sections where the external-cost charge is to be levied and describing the class of vehicles, type of roads and the exact time periods according to which the external-cost charge will vary;\n(b) the envisaged weighted average external-cost charge and the envisaged total revenue;\n(c) if appropriate, the name of the authority designated in accordance with Article 7c(4) to set the amount of the charge, and of its representative;\n(d) the parameters, data and information necessary to demonstrate how the calculation method set out in Annex IIIa will be applied.\n4. The Commission shall take a decision as to whether the obligations of Articles 7b, 7c, 7j or 9(2) are complied with by:\n(a) six months after the submission of the file referred to in paragraph 3; or\n(b) where applicable, an additional three months after receipt of additional information pursuant to paragraph 3 requested by the Commission.\nThe Member State concerned shall adapt the proposed external-cost charge in order to be in conformity with the decision. The decision of the Commission shall be made available to the Committee referred to in Article 9c, to the European Parliament and to the Council.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 2011/76/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 134, 30.4.2004, p. 114 ."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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