The Provincial Council of Bizkaia acknowledges that there is no legal way to charge tolls to foreign lorries

The Member for Infrastructure of Bizkaia, Carlos Alzaga Sagastasoloa, has acknowledged that European legislation does not provide for cross-border enforcement in the collection of unpaid tolls for vehicles with foreign registration, although he has stressed that the number of unpaid tolls has been reduced by 29.65% .

The exchange of data at European level for traffic offences is regulated, but not for the collection of tolls, the Member explained in the Infrastructure Committee of theGeneral Meetings, to questions from EH Bildu.

Despite the difficulties with international registration, the Member has pointed out that the current non-payment rate is between 1.35%and 1.45%, and has explained that it corresponds to the unitary crossings of vehicles through the arches of the toll system, not to full routes or to different lorries.

Thus, it specifies that the 5,771unpaid monthly journeys correspond to 280 single heavy goods vehicles.

EH Bildu has requested the appearance of the Member to explain the matter, since the system works through automatic arches that read the plates and charge per kilometre without barriers, so heavy goods vehicles must have a VIA-T device or be registered at Interbiak to pay the toll.