The Heavy Goods Vehicles (Charging for the Use of Certain Infrastructure on the Trans-European Road Network) Regulations 2009

Communication of discount and reduction schemes to the European Commission

20.—(1) This regulation applies where an operator has a scheme for giving discounts or making reductions in the rates of a toll or a user charge, and the scheme has not been notified to the European Commission on or before the date of these Regulations coming into force.

(2) If the operator is not an appropriate national authority, the operator must notify the appropriate national authority of that scheme.

(3) In the case of a scheme which has effect at the date of these Regulations coming into force, the notification to the appropriate national authority must be made as soon as reasonably practicable after the date of these Regulations coming into force.

(4) In the case of a scheme which is to come into effect after the date of these Regulations coming into force, the notification to the appropriate national authority must be made before the scheme comes into effect.

(5) If an appropriate national authority receives notification of a scheme, or if the operator is an appropriate national authority, the appropriate national authority must notify the European Commission of the scheme.