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The White Paper on transport policy for 2010 concluded that one of the principal reasons for the imbalance in the transport system is that the modes of transport do not, in every case, pay the costs for which they are responsible.
The European Parliament confirmed the need for infrastructure charging when it adopted the report of the conclusions of the White Paper on 12 January 2003. Distance-based road tolls and charges based on the duration of the use of the road have historically been levied on motorways or other main roads to help finance the construction, operation and maintenance of the infrastructure. Increasingly, as technology advances, such instruments could also be used to manage traffic: congestion charges, emissions-related charges and so on.
Most Member States levy tolls or charges on at least part of their motorway network. The Commission policy on road charges and tolls is that they are an important instrument for financing investment in infrastructure, managing traffic and encouraging private-sector investment in infrastructure management. So Commission legislation is currently limited to heavy goods vehicles, as I have already mentioned, but it is a part of our policy."@en1
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