"the occupation of road haulage operator" shall mean the activity of any undertaking transporting goods for hire or reward by means of either a motor vehicle or a combination of vehicles;

(2) Council Directive 96/26/EC of 29 April 1996 on admission to the occupation of road haulage operator and road passenger transport operator and mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications intended to facilitate for these operators the right to freedom of establishment in national and international transport operations laid down minimum conditions governing admission to the occupation of road transport operator and the mutual recognition of the documents required in this connection.

"the occupation of road transport operator" shall mean the occupation of road passenger transport operator or the occupation of road haulage operator;

(8) This Directive applies irrespective of Council Directive 91/439/EEC of 29 July 1991 on driving licences , as last amended by Commission Directive 2000/56/EC , Council Directive 94/55/EC of 21 November 1994 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by road , as last amended by Directive 2000/61/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , and Council Directive 96/26/EC of 29 April 1996 on admission to the occupation of road haulage operator and road passenger transport operator and mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications ...[+++]intended to facilitate for those operators the right to freedom of establishment in national and international transport operations , as amended by Council Directive 98/76/EC .

- The Council adopted a common position on the consolidation of Community legislation on admission to the occupation of road haulage operator and road passenger transport operator and mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications intended to facilitate for these operators the right to freedom of establishment in national and international transport operations.

For example, taking into account the characteristics and extent of the crisis, such measures could: - adjust market capacity to demand, particularly by means of a temporary freeze on any increases in the number of Community, bilateral or national authorizations, provided these measures could not jeopardize the suppression of quotas from 1 January 1993; COM(90) 64 - 2 - - for a given period, limit the maximum tonnage authorized for each undertaking; - issue licences to transport operators entering the market which is in a state of crisis for the first time at a rate consonant with the capacity of the market or make the issuing of such l ...[+++]icences subject to conditions such as the following: . the applicant must already have complied for a given period with the Community provisions on access to the occupation of road hauler; . over 50% of the assets of the transport undertaking in question must be financed from its own resources; . the operator must be independent of any transport undertaking already in the market in question; - make the registration of new vehicles conditional upon the operator taking out of service an amount of vehicles capacity at least equivalent to that of the new vehicles. - promote the conversion of transport undertakings, or the redeployment of their employees, to activities outside the market in question, with the provisor that these measures do not cause an imbalance elsewhere in the market; - encourage small and medium-sized undertakings to combine to reduce their logistical and management costs.