iv. to preserve Member States' rights regarding existing or future national regulations and bilateral or multilateral road transport agreements, including transit permit requirements; to exclude any provisions facilitating the entry and stay of professional drivers from the scope of the annex on road transport; to reject any requests to undertake any Mode 4 commitments in the road transport sector;

It has established competence in several areas such as seat belt use in cars, the periodic technical inspection of motor vehicles, roadside checks, tachographs, speed governors, the weights and dimensions of vehicles, the transportation of hazardous goods, driving licences and certain aspects of driver training.

10b. Member States should inform national, regional or local contracting authorities and contracting entities which provide public passenger transport services under licence, permit or authorisation granted by public authorities on the provisions relating to the procurement of clean and energy efficient road transport vehicles.

The rules on driving licences are essential elements of the common transport policy, contribute to improving road safety, and facilitate the free movement of persons taking up residence in a Member State other than the one issuing the licence.

4. Stresses that in road transport too, the transposition and application of the EU acquis is very poor, particularly as regards transport within Turkey. For international transport, it is true that the necessary rules are complied with, but these rules derive from international agreements concluded within the ECTM (European Conference of Transport Ministers) or the ECE-UN (UN Economic Committee for Europe), which have mostly only been ratified by Turkey but not transposed into national legislation. Notes that, for the area of road transport, a comprehensive study of legislative and administrative shortcomings is necessary. On the basis ...[+++]of such a study, a plan must be drawn up for the systematic transposition of the acquis. There is a particularly urgent need for action in terms of social provisions relating to road transport (e.g. driving and rest periods for drivers), and of rules for obtaining a driving licence, driver training, transport of hazardous goods, etc.;

1.2.5. objective: to know the economic environment of road passenger transport and the organisation of the market guidelines: knowledge of the economic environment of road passenger transport: road passenger transport sector in relation to other road transport sectors, road passenger transport in relation to other modes of passenger transport (rail, private cars), different road passenger transport activities, crossing borders (international transport), organisation of the main types of road passenger transport company; business and ...[+++]standards: business and the business environment (competition), commercial and financial effects of a dispute with a passenger, procedure for certification of road passenger transport companies; 1.3. Health, road and environmental safety, service, logistics All licences