12. Emphasises that the reintroduction of a ‘petty offence’ procedure should go ahead, and that recovery under Article 56(3) of the updated horizontal regulation need not be pursued where the costs already incurred combined with the likely costs of recovery exceed the amount to be recovered; calls on the Commission, in the interests of administrative simplification at local level, to deem this condition to have been met if the amount to be recovered from the beneficiary in the context of a single payment does not exceed EUR 300; red ...[+++]ucing the administrative burden by not pursuing the recovery of small and very small amounts enables the national and regional authorities to investigate more serious irregularities more efficiently and to take appropriate action against them.

53. Emphasises that the reintroduction of a ‘petty offence’ procedure should go ahead, and that recovery under Article 56(3) of the updated horizontal regulation need not be pursued where the costs already incurred combined with the likely costs of recovery exceed the amount to be recovered; calls on the Commission, in the interests of administrative simplification at local level, to deem this condition to have been met if the amount to be recovered from the beneficiary in the context of a single payment does not exceed EUR 300; poi ...[+++]nts out that reducing the administrative burden by not pursuing the recovery of small and very small amounts enables the national and regional authorities to investigate more serious irregularities more efficiently and to take appropriate action against them;

"toll" means a specified amount payable for a vehicle based on the distance travelled on a given infrastructure and comprising an infrastructure charge and/or an external cost charge; (ba) "infrastructure charge" means a charge levied through a toll for the purpose of recovering the costs related to infrastructure incurred by a Member State or more than one Member State if the infrastructure project has been jointly undertaken ; (bb) "external cost charge" means a charge levied through a toll for the purpose of recovering the costs incurred by a Member State related to traffic-based air pollution and traffic-based noise pollution ; (b ...[+++]c) "cost of traffic-based air pollution" means the cost of the damage caused by the release of certain harmful air emissions in the course of the operation of a vehicle; (bd) "cost of traffic-based noise pollution" means the cost of the damage caused by the noise emitted by a vehicle or created by the interaction of a vehicle and the road surface; (be) "weighted average infrastructure charge" means the total revenue of an infrastructure charge over a given period divided by the number of vehicle kilometres travelled on the road sections subject to the charge during that period; (bf) "weighted average external cost charge" means the total revenue of an external cost charge over a given period divided by the number of vehicle kilometres travelled on the road sections subject to the charge during that period;

"toll" means a specified amount payable for a vehicle based on the distance travelled on a given infrastructure and comprising an infrastructure charge and/or an external cost charge; (ba) "infrastructure charge" means a charge levied through a toll for the purpose of recovering the costs related to infrastructure incurred by a Member State or more than one Member State if the infrastructure project has been jointly undertaken ; (bb) "external cost charge" means a charge levied through a toll for the purpose of recovering the costs incurred by a Member State related to traffic-based air pollution and traffic-based noise pollution ; (b ...[+++]c) "cost of traffic-based air pollution" means the cost of the damage caused by the release of certain harmful air emissions in the course of the operation of a vehicle; (bd) "cost of traffic-based noise pollution" means the cost of the damage caused by the noise emitted by a vehicle or created by the interaction of a vehicle and the road surface; (be) "weighted average infrastructure charge" means the total revenue of an infrastructure charge over a given period divided by the number of vehicle kilometres travelled on the road sections subject to the charge during that period; (bf) "weighted average external cost charge" means the total revenue of an external cost charge over a given period divided by the number of vehicle kilometres travelled on the road sections subject to the charge during that period;

However, in these cases, the Commission considers the Member States to have applied the recovery procedure negligently and therefore the Member States have to bear the costs of the non-recovery.

The operation mainly affects the passenger car sector where the product lines of Renault and Nissan overlap in certain segments.