Directive 1999/62/EC

means a works concession or a service concession as defined in Article 5, point 1(a) or (b), of Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means a toll levied by a concessionaire under a concession contract;

means a situation where traffic volumes approach or exceed road capacity;

means a charge which is levied on vehicles for the purpose of recovering the congestion costs incurred in a Member State and of reducing congestion;

means the costs related to construction, including, where appropriate, the financing costs, of any of the following:

means the transport infrastructure identified in accordance with Chapter III of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013;

means the cost of the harm to human health and of the environmental damage caused by the release of particulate matter and of ozone precursors, such as NOx and volatile organic compounds, in the course of the operation of a vehicle;

means the cost of the damage caused by the release of CO2 in the course of the operation of a vehicle;

means the cost of the harm to human health and of the environmental damage caused by the noise emitted by the vehicles or created by their interaction with the road surface;

means a charge levied for the purpose of recovering the costs related to one or more of the following:

means interest on borrowings and return on any equity funding contributed by shareholders;

means a heavy-duty vehicle intended for the carriage of goods;

means a vehicle with a technically permissible maximum laden mass exceeding 3,5 tonnes;

means a charge levied for the purpose of recovering the construction, the maintenance, the operation and the development costs related to infrastructure incurred in a Member State;

means a light-duty vehicle intended for the carriage of goods;

means a vehicle with a technically permissible maximum laden mass not exceeding 3,5 tonnes;

means:

means a light-duty vehicle intended for the carriage of more than eight passengers in addition to the driver;

means a vehicle with living accommodation space which contains seats and a table, sleeping accommodation, whether separate or converted from the seating, cooking facilities and storage facilities;

means a road specially designed and built for motor traffic, which does not serve properties bordering on it, and which meets the following criteria:

means a light-duty vehicle intended for the carriage of not more than eight passengers in addition to the driver;

means:

means reporting period of the year Y as defined in Article 3, point 3, of Regulation (EU) 2019/1242;

means structural repairs excluding those repairs no longer of any current benefit to road users, in particular where the repair work has been replaced by further road resurfacing or other construction work;

means a tolling or charging arrangement, where the amendment of rates is expected to increase revenues in excess of 10 % in comparison to the previous accounting year, excluding the effect of increase in traffic and after correcting for inflation measured by changes in the EU-wide Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), and excluding energy and unprocessed food, as published by the Commission (Eurostat).

means a specified amount payable in respect of a vehicle based on the distance travelled on a given infrastructure and on the type of the vehicle, the payment of which confers the right for that vehicle to use the infrastructures, and consisting of one or more of the following charges:

means the road transport infrastructure referred to in Chapter II, Section 3, of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as illustrated by maps in Annex I to that Regulation;

means any undertaking transporting goods or passengers by road;

means a category into which a heavy-duty vehicle falls according to the number of its axles, its dimensions or mass, or other vehicle classification factors reflecting road damage, such as the road damage classification system set out in Annex IV, provided that the classification system used is based on vehicle characteristics which appear in the vehicle documentation used in all Member States or which are visually apparent;

means a specified amount payment of which confers the right for a vehicle to use for a given period the infrastructures referred to in Article 7(1) and (2);

means a light-duty vehicle within the meaning of Part C, point 4.2, of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means a motor vehicle, with four or more wheels, or an articulated vehicle combination intended or used for the carriage by road of passengers or goods;

means a grouping of vehicles listed in Table 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400;

means a vehicle of historical interest as defined in Article 3, point 7, of Directive 2014/45/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means vehicle sub-group as defined in Article 3, point 8, of Regulation (EU) 2019/1242;

means the total revenue from an infrastructure charge over a given period divided by the number of heavy-duty vehicle kilometres travelled on the road sections subject to that charge during that period;

means: