A number of amendments may be mentioned which are important for our committee: for example, the replacement of the flexible week by the calendar week (Amendments 1 and 33); the fact that a weekly rest period that falls in two weeks may now only be counted for one of the two weeks (44); the obligation for other links in the transport chain to comply with the regulation (48); the fact that Member States are entitled to exempt postal delivery (54) and the transport of animal waste (58) at national level from the scope of the regulation; the obligation of undertakings to preserve all data relevant for the application of the regulation over a period of one year (62) and, finally, the possibility of taking a vehicle into safekeeping in the event of serious infringements (65).
A number of amendments may be mentioned which are important for our committee: for example, the replacement of the flexible week by the calendar week (Amendments 1 and 33); the fact that a weekly rest period that falls in two weeks may now only be counted for one of the two weeks (44); the obligation for other links in the transport chain to comply with the regulation (48); the fact that Member States are entitled to exempt postal delivery (54) and the transport of animal waste (58) at national level from the scope of the regulation; the obligation of undertakings to preserve all data relevant for the application of the regulation over a period of one year (62) and, finally, the possibility of taking a vehicle into safekeeping in the event of serious infringements (65).