Cabotage
Training module for control officers, road transport managers and professional drivers
Brussels, 13 March 2014
Helene Barkovic, IRU projects
Combined Learning Objectives for Safer European Roads
Co-funded by the
Cabotage
• General definition• The regulation• What does it mean?• Problematic situations
Cabotage general definition: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cabotage
• 1. The transportation of passengers and goods within the same country by a company established/coming from another country..
• 2. Law or policy protecting transporters of passengers and goods within a country from competition from foreign carriers.
The regulationhttp://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road/haulage/cabotage_en.htm
• Article 8 of the Regulation 1072/2009 provides that every haulier is entitled to perform up to 3 cabotage operations within a 7 day period starting the day after the unloading of the international transport.
Cabotage general definition
• A haulier may decide to carry out 1, 2 or all 3 cabotage operations in different Member States and not necessarily the Member State in which the international transport was delivered. In this case only one cabotage operation is allowed in a given Member State to be carried out within 3 days of entering that Member State without cargo.
What does it mean?Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Problematic situations
• Start of the period (calendar days or 24h periods)
• Multidrop operations -
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