Text file: 3020.txt
author: Kamen
downvotes: 2
end consideration date: 2012-05-17
id: '3020'
number comments: 12
number views: 4045
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: ' Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning

  We note that the proposed solution of electronic vignette tolling is not acceptable
  for the reasons set out below.

  The proposed solution, whereby the vignette would no longer be affixed to the vehicle
  when paying the toll based on the time of use of the toll road, is known in the
  trade as the "electronic vignette". This is a system known in the Republic of Hungary,
  which allows the payment of tolls simply by entering the toll payer''s data into
  an information system.

  In the Republic of Slovenia, the existing information technology and the video surveillance
  system on toll roads do not allow the payment of tolls by electronic vignette. In
  order to enable such a method of toll payment, DARS d.d. should equip the entire
  toll network with a video-monitoring system enabling automatic identification of
  number plates and set up an information system to which all control authorities
  (the Police, the Customs Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, toll control
  officers and the Inspectorate of Transport, Energy and Spatial Planning of the Republic
  of Slovenia) should have access. In addition, within the current sales network,
  which includes sales points both at home and abroad, vignette sellers should be
  provided with IT support for entering the necessary data to enable toll collection
  by electronic vignette. Although vendors would not sell vignettes in the form of
  a sticker, this does not mean that they would not charge a commission for the sale,
  and there is even a fear that they would charge more for their work than they do
  now, as the sale would require more time and additional know-how to use the IT system.
  In this context, upgrading the existing official register of registered vehicles
  is not an option, as this register contains personal data that can only be accessed
  by authorised persons, not by sales staff at petrol stations or other sales outlets.
  Moreover, the register is useless for the implementation of electronic vignette
  tolling, as it only contains data on vehicles registered in the territory of the
  Republic of Slovenia and not on vehicles registered abroad.

  Under the current legislation, an annual charge for the use of the vehicle in road
  transport is payable during the registration process. This is a levy which is a
  revenue of the State budget, but does not constitute a toll for the use of toll
  roads. If the payment of the toll were to be required in the registration procedure,
  this would constitute a discriminatory measure, since the toll would also be paid
  by citizens who do not use the toll road. In addition, foreigners would not pay
  the toll as their vehicles are registered abroad.

  As can be seen from the above, the introduction of the so-called electronic vignette
  would require the setting up of new or the adaptation of certain existing technical
  and information equipment. The latter would impose an additional financial burden
  on DARS d.d., which is not economically viable in the current financial and economic
  situation, especially given the fact that the proposed measure would merely eliminate
  the affixing and removal of the sticker for toll users.     '
response date: 2012-06-12
response due date: null
sent date: 2012-04-18
title: Vignette - paperless/no sticker toll
upvotes: 18
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/3020
