France’s public agency for the funding of transport infrastructure, the AFITF, estimates that the“green” tax levied on hgvs will generate annual revenue of €1.24 billion (US1.68bn) after it is introduced from mid-2013.
The French government has awarded a tender to a consortium, led by Italian group Autostrade per l’Italia, to collect the tax through a satellite-based toll system.
State-owned SNCF, the country’s biggest road and rail freight carrier, is a minority partner in the consortium.
The tax will be levied on commercial vehicles of more than 3.5 tonnes at an average rate of €0.12 per km.
It will affect around 600,000 French trucks and 200,000 foreign-registered vehicles, plying over 12,000km of French highways – the aim being to encourage shippers to use modes of transport other than road.
The scheme would make provision for vehicles to be equipped with special badges enabling them to be tracked by satellite.
France’s leading road haulage federation, the FNTR, has opposed the tax since it was first mooted, estimating that it will add 5-10% to trucking firms’ operating costs.
The Autostrade consortium would collect an annual fee of €240 million for running the scheme and local authorities, which have responsibility for the upkeep of public roads, would receive €160 million. The remainder of the €1.24 billion income will go towards financing new transport infrastructure projects.
The tax scheme, initially earmarked for introduction between 2010-2012, has been put back on several occasions, due largely to technical problems.
Source: IFW
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