Text file: 3920.txt
author: _Uros
downvotes: 9
end consideration date: 2012-12-01
id: '3920'
number comments: 9
number views: 3510
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning\nThe\
  \ Act on the annual charge for the use of vehicles in road transport (Official Journal\
  \ of the Republic of Slovenia, No 57/08) sets out the criteria for determining the\
  \ amount of the annual charge. The Act also provides that, when determining the\
  \ amount of the annual charge for individual categories or sub-categories, the criteria\
  \ to be taken into account are the emissions of air pollutants and the way in which\
  \ vehicles are suspended. These criteria are then taken into account in the Regulation\
  \ on the method of setting and the amount of the annual levy for the use of vehicles\
  \ in road transport (Official Journal of the RS, No 80/12), which sets out in more\
  \ detail the method of setting and the amount of the annual levy for the use of\
  \ vehicles in road transport. The selection of the criteria takes into account the\
  \ technical feasibility of calculating the annual levy using the information provided\
  \ by valid road transport licences and other records and documents provided for\
  \ in the vehicle regulations.\nYou suggest that the formula for calculating the\
  \ annual charge should include the weight of the car and the number of kilometres\
  \ driven. We also understand from the proposal that your proposal only applies to\
  \ passenger cars (M1 vehicle category).\nThe mileage is not recorded at the time\
  \ of the roadworthiness test, but it is required in the proposal for a new regulation\
  \ governing the roadworthiness test. Once this information is recorded, it will\
  \ form part of the register of registered vehicles. However, since the first roadworthiness\
  \ test of a passenger car is only required four years after the first registration\
  \ of the vehicle and the annual levy is payable on registration of the vehicle and\
  \ on renewal of the registration licence, we would not have the relevant data for\
  \ those vehicles in the official register by that date. In general, the problem\
  \ with the introduction of mileage recording is that the odometer is not part of\
  \ the vehicle for which type-approval is required, but is merely an indicator. Its\
  \ possible replacement is also not controlled, and tampering with the odometer and\
  \ thus altering the odometer is reportedly a fairly straightforward process. In\
  \ view of the above, we do not envisage that the mileage figure will be used as\
  \ a benchmark for setting the level of the annual passenger car levy.\nHowever,\
  \ the case is different for the vehicle weight, since this information is subject\
  \ to the type-approval or individual approval procedure for each vehicle and is\
  \ therefore entered in the central vehicle register and also in the register of\
  \ registered vehicles. In view of the changes that are expected in the area of vehicle\
  \ charging as a result of the European regulations, the system of the annual charge\
  \ will have to be amended and, in the context of these amendments, we will also\
  \ examine the possibility of introducing the weight of the passenger car as one\
  \ of the criteria for determining the amount of the annual charge.\n "
response date: 2013-01-03
response due date: null
sent date: 2012-11-02
title: Toll calculation by weight and annual kilometres travelled
upvotes: 12
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/3920
