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Directive 2004/52/EC of the european parliament and of the council of 29 April 2004 on the interoperability of electronic road toll systems in the Community (Text with EEA relevance)
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1. This Directive lays down the conditions necessary to ensure the interoperability of electronic road toll systems in the Community. It applies to the electronic collection of all types of road fees, on the entire Community road network, urban and interurban, motorways, major and minor roads, and various structures such as tunnels, bridges and ferries.
2. This Directive does not apply to:
(a) road toll systems for which no electronic means of toll collection exists;
(b) electronic road toll systems which do not need the installation of on-board equipment;
(c) small, strictly local road toll systems for which the costs of compliance with the requirements of this Directive would be disproportionate to the benefits.
3. To achieve the objective set in paragraph 1, a European electronic toll service shall be created. This service, which is complementary to the national electronic toll services of the Member States, shall ensure the interoperability throughout the Community, for users, of the electronic toll systems that have already been introduced in the Member States and of those to be introduced in the future in the framework of this Directive.]
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