cpc driver in the eu: implementation status directive 2003/59 on the initial qualification and...

CPC Driver in the EU:

Implementation Status

Directive 2003/59 on the initial qualification and periodic training of

drivers of certain road vehicles for the carriage of passengers & goods

Damian ViccarsHead - Social Affairs and EU Road Safety (c) IRU Academy 2012

Paris, 7 June 2012

Transposing the Directive

(c) IRU Academy 2012

Implementation: a shared responsability

The professional driver is at the heart of a set of systems implying a multiplicity of stakeholders: the company, trainers, the social partners, Member States and the EU.

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Member State

Social partners

Trainers

Company

Drivers



Article 3: Qualification and Training

Source: EC DG Transport

Transposition

Option: Course and test

Option: Test only

Both

AT BE

BG

CY

CZ DK

DE

EE EL ES FI FR

IE

IT

LV

LT LU

HU MT NL

PL

PT RO

SI

SK SE

UK

Initial qualificationprocess

Option 1: course attendance and test

Option 2: test only

Both systems



Initial Qualification

Article 5: Age limits

• Drivers of vehicles intended for the carriage of goods may drive:

• From the age of 18:

• accelerated initial qualification C1, C1+E (art 6.2)

• initial qualification C, C+E (art 6.1)

• From the age of 21:

• accelerated initial qualification C, C+E (art 6.2)


Article 8: Certifying Periodic Training

Vehicle: C1, C1+E and C, C+E


Periodic Training & Transition Periods


Unknown

IT

EL

“Until 2016 the date of issuance of the driving

licence will be taken into account for

checking theacquired rights of the

concerned drivers”

Article 10: Community Code


Community Code


The project partnership recognise the indispensability of high quality training for developing an efficient, properly skilled, safe and sustainable workforce in commercial road transport.

The purpose of this project is therefore to correctly identify the most important challenges and the most efficacious solutions for improving the provision of training to drivers and workers performing certain non mobile, logistics related tasks.

A detailed study on the implementation impact and challenges of Directive 2003/59/EC (driver training pillar)


STARTS: Skills, Training and the Road Transport Sector

http://starts.iru.org/en_about




STARTS: Skills, Training and the Road Transport Sector



IRU Academy/CIECA – Survey on CPC Driver

Implementation

Recognition

“The very varied degrees of the quality of training and training curricula are still a major obstacle to mutual recognition”

Problems of mutual recognition for initial qualification in

• Denmark,

• Hungary,

• Lithuania

• Sweden

“Mutual recognition of the periodic training seems to be a more ticklish issue, above all when the training is not fully completed“


Evidence of (partial) periodic training carried

out in other member state

Main reasons are: • lack of checking validity, comparing subject modules, etc…


Accepted, but evidence will be checked Not acceptedAustria Belgium (partial)Croatia Czech RepublicCyprus FinlandEstonia FranceGermany HungaryGreat Britain and Northern Ireland LatviaIreland PolandMalta SwedenThe Netherlands Norway Slovenia Switzerland


Trainingcapabilities

“Member States which already had training facilities seem to have fewer problems to implement the Directive and the training operators could more easily deliver the training in compliance with the requirements of the Directive. In the Member States which had not had any type of training in the past, it must set it up from scratch and some are confronted with financial and time-related problems.”

In-house training

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Allowed Not allowedAustria ü Belgium ü Bulgaria ü

Czech Republic ü Cyprus ü

Denmark üEstonia üFinland ü France ü

Germany ü Hungary ü

Italy ü Lithuania ü

Luxembourg üNetherlands ü

Portugal üRomania ü

Slovak Republic üSlovenia ü

Spain ü Sweden ü

United Kingdom ü

AllowedNot allowed


Trainingcapabilities & qualification

Training Capabilities

“Despite a general increase in training capabilities, the provision of training remains inadequate in some Member States and driving schools were called upon to bring a solution to this problem.”

Instructor qualification

“Becoming a trainer for initial qualification and/or periodic training is dependent on several conditions that differ from one State to another, with criteria such as age or experience which come into play in some States, but also such as a prior initial training.”

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Requirements to become a periodic training instructor

BASED ON DRIVING EXPERIENCE

The Netherlands

Experience as professional driver or qualification comparable to driving instructor (WRM certificate);

Austria

Experience as lecturers in the apprenticeship “professional driver”

Driving school instructors for C and D licenses;

Sufficient knowledge of regulations

Education or equal practical experience.

Sweden

Two years experience in transport sector, vocational teacher or proven experience

.


Training Programmes

“Respondents have reported failures in the training programs of their member states”. In some occurrences this was due to a poor quality trainer profile.”

“Therefore, the principle of the Directive 2003/59, which aims at driver professionalisation by adopting a better driving behaviour acquired during training sessions, such as safe and economically driving courses, is misguided since periodic training is used only as a business opportunity for training operators. “


Training or right to drive?

Training Centres

“Too often for most of the training organisations the aim of periodic training is not transmitting or promoting skill acquisition, but delivering a certificate which will allow trainees to continue exercising, the content and quality of training remain irrelevant.”

Initial Qualification Costs Training + Test Option

The costs indicated refer to training / selling prices applied to candidates without funding.

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Training fees

Initial Training - Cat. C

Contributor Percentage Local and/or regional authorities 8,3% Employment agencies 16.70%The company 16,7% The Driver 58.30%Total 100%

Periodic Training Costs

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Periodic training average tariffs (without financing mechanisms) range from an average of 70 € in Romania to 1000 € in Luxemburg.


Training fees

Periodic Training - Cat. C

Contributor Percentage Employment agencies 7%The company and the driver 7%The company 50%The Driver 36%Total 100%


Periodic training – who bears the cost?

The driver Both driver & employer Employer

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Latvia, Malta (env.), Northern Ireland,

Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland

Finland: in 95% of the cases, Sweden,

France


Is training = working?

Qualifying as working hours

This question can be answered in many different ways and represents the main issue negotiated within some Member States. This is often negotiated at company level. However some countries such as Finland and Great Britain, these training are considered as working hours, whilst in other not.


More information?

IRU Academy/CIECA Survey:http://www.iru.org/cmsfilesystemaction?file=Events_2010_DriverCompetence/CPC_Cieca.pdf

STARTS’ project:http://starts.iru.org/en_home

http://www.iru.org/cmsfilesystemaction?file=Events_2010_DriverCompetence/CPC_Cieca.pdf

http://www.iru.org/cms-filesystemaction?file=Events_2010_DriverCompetence/CPC_Cieca.pdf


Professional Road Transport Training Industry Needs

In order to answer to the training development challenges, the industry needs:

• Need for technical knowledge and teaching skills

• Need to ensure the use of best practice

• Need for quality training to impact on road safety and image of the profession

• Need to ensure knowledge transfer

• Need to encourage mobility opportunities

• Need to establish a pan European network of instructors


Professional Road Transport Training Industry Needs

Benefits• Help countries raise the professional level of both

instructors and drivers• Provide harmonised professional driver training• Provide relevant tools enabling to perform CPC Driver

training • Aim for EU recognition of CPC Driver instructor

qualifications• Speak with one voice in road transport training delivery• Save money

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