• After a debate in the Senate on Tuesday, the European Collectivity of Alsace (CEA) will be able to introduce a tax on heavy goods vehicles circulating on its territory.

  • "A satellite system, like what is done with the Via Pass in Belgium and its on-board equipment for each heavy vehicle" would be preferred, according to Frédéric Bierry, President of the CEA.

  • Between consultations with all the players in the economic sector but also a citizen consultation, European regulatory, fiscal and technical constraints, there is still a long way to go before its application, which should not be possible before 2024.

And now we are talking about the tax for heavy goods vehicles passing through Alsace.

"Ecotax", "contribution", "royalty", whatever name is attributed to it, the latter is eagerly awaited in the region.

Territory which hopes one day to free itself from the many trucks fleeing Germany and its "Maut", its road tax, in place since 2005.

The Senate validated Tuesday evening a bill ratifying ordinances allowing the European Collectivity of Alsace (CEA) to introduce this tax.

It remains for Parliament to validate the modalities of application and for the ECA now to concretely propose a device.

But in any case, the Alsatian ecotax will not be able to see the light of day by at least 2024. Why such a wait?

Everything has to be done

Already because this provision is brand new and the decisions taken by the ECA will be closely observed, in particular by the regions.

Main objective here?

"Fix the problem" of the A35.

This motorway which crosses Alsace is used daily by nearly 180,000 vehicles, including around 20,000 heavy goods vehicles.

Two thousand of them are said to be trucks returning to France to escape the German Maut.

Another difficulty: the modalities have not yet been decided.

What types of vehicles will be affected?

What control system will be chosen?

What acceptability with local carriers and shippers?

The roadmap is (almost) blank.

Inspired by the Belgian system

"A satellite system, like what is done with the Via Pass in Belgium and its on-board equipment for each heavy vehicle" would be preferred, according to Frédéric Bierry, President of the CEA. Six gantry cranes placed in 2013 have already been identified. “But above all, it is to have a concrete financial impact study for all Alsatian carriers, specifies Frédéric Bierry, because it should be a tax per kilometer traveled and will therefore also impact carriers. Alsatians and not just heavy goods vehicles in great transit ”, as required by European regulations. “Regulatory, fiscal, technical, IT, authorizations constraints”, details the elected representative. The path is long.

But the first of the priorities ensures Frédéric Bierry, is "a consultation during the ten months to come with all the Alsatian economic sector, so that it is the least affected.

"Think about compensation such as training, compensation, then launch" a consultation on a citizen IT platform ", adds the elected.

“If this system has not known an outcry in Belgium, it is because it had been put in place with good intelligence.

Then the time for authorizations will come, ie an irreducible period of one and a half years and then implementation.

A device which, reinforced "by the GCO and the ZFE, should allow" by 2024 to rebalance the circulation of heavy goods vehicles in the Rhine basin.

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