2005/449/EC: Commission Decision of 20 June 2005 concerning a request for exemption from the vehicle tax rules submitted by France pursuant to Article 6(2)(b) of Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures (notified under document number C(2005) 1818) (Text with EEA relevance)

The Commission hereby gives its agreement to exempt until 31 December 2009 from vehicle tax in accordance with Article 6(2)(b) of Directive 1999/62/EC the following vehicles of 12 tonnes or more, which are used exclusively for the carriage of permanently installed equipment for public and industrial works in France: 1. Self-propelled lifting and handling gear (cranes mounted on road chassis); 2. Mobile pumps or pumping stations permanently mounted on road chassis; 3. Mobile motor compressor sets permanently mounted on road chassis; 4. Concrete mixers and pumps permanently mounted on road chassis (except drum vehicles for transporting concrete); 5. Mobile generating sets permanently mounted on road chassis; 6. Mobile drilling machines permanently mounted on road chassis.

This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.