Major points of disagreement between Parliament and Council, affecting both the Regulation and the Directive, concerned the introduction of a common spectrum of penalties for infringements of the relevant legislation, as well as the inclusion of the road transport into the Working Time Directive so that the time a driver spends driving to his place of assignment and/or to (un)load his lorry could also be taken into account.
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