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ERRU:Impact on cross-border cooperation

ERRU:Impact on cross-border cooperation. Ad Hellemons Director TISPOL Organisation. Brief Introduction TISPOL. TISPOL: Europees Network for Traffic Police (EU 27 +Norway, Swiss) Focus on road safety and fight against crime

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ERRU:Impact on cross-border cooperation

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  1. ERRU:Impact on cross-border cooperation Ad Hellemons Director TISPOL Organisation

  2. Brief Introduction TISPOL TISPOL: Europees Network for Traffic Police (EU 27 +Norway, Swiss) Focus on road safety and fight against crime Cross-border police cooperation (exchange good-practice, training, seminars, control operations, lobby) Cooperation with external stakeholders IRU/ECR/TISPOL cooperation www.tispol.org

  3. Road Transport Enforcement Difficult issue for TISPOL In spite of EU legislation (Regulations) considerable differences in enforcement in the M.S. Complex: rules complex, digital tacho fraud, dealing with foreign drivers, many different documents Few experts available, due to complexity and resources required to come/remain at expert level

  4. What does TISPOL try to do about it? Truck and bus control operations Transport Document System (TDS) Master classes Tachoweb (expert system tacho fraud) Joining Eu working groups/expert committees Full cooperation with ECR Cooperation with Industry (IRU/ECR/TISPOL)

  5. ERRU TUNER Project (TISPOL/KLPD/ECR/IRU) Blueprint for ERRU Missed opportunity: inter-connection of national systems instead of EU database Politicaldecision. TUNER warnedfor the potentialrisks. Complex, expensiveandleavestoomuch room forinterpretationandignoringby M.S. ERRU system design could have forced more into the direction of harmonisation (also: software checkingtacho)

  6. What could be the added value? Improvement of definition of bad behavior Removing bad companies, persons from the sector More unified approach by law enforcement More serious threat to operators that hide behind foreign borders A strengthened feeling of working all together for law enforcement

  7. But: It is a pity that a -potentially- so powerful signal to bad behaving companies and persons is weakened so much by the way the instrument is organised and implemented. It could have been so much more powerful, if the M.S. would have organised the ERRU in such a manner that differences in technology, interpretation, decision-making etcetera would have been more ruled out by the design and working of the system itself. Identical discussion: software on interpretation of readings of digital tachograph (different interpretations means different enforcement)

  8. Battle difficult to win for law enforcement • Many people and organisations in law-enforcement work hard on harmonisation of practices, but as long as there is no real political will in the M.S. to achieve harmonisation it is a very difficult fight. • There are so many ways to escape, that the work that is done has only a limited effect. • Sometimes naive assuptions about capability of enforcement (group of wise men/new cabotage rules) • If the situation does not change, more and more people in law-enforcement will get demotivated and stop their efforts. This effect will be reinforced by financial problems.

  9. Thank you for your attention TISPOL... working together to save lives Brussels 170209 BIVV

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