Uplatnění „balíčku mobility“ v logistické praxi

This paper examines the impact of the European Mobility Package 2020 on Czech road hauliers. It presents in turn - the impact studies that have been prepared on the topic of the Mobility Package, the motivation for the creation of this set of measures and the interests of individual groups in its approval, the exact wording of the individual changes contained in the package, an analysis of the situation on the Czech road transport market, including a presentation of the Czech transport fleet in numbers and, most importantly, a summary of the impact of the main changes brought by the Mobility Package, based on interviews with several active road hauliers and experts in the field of logistics. At the beginning of the paper there is a summary of the main ideas from the three impact studies that have been carried out on this package. In its conclusion, the paper does not attempt to evaluate the Mobility Package as a whole, but instead discusses in turn the key changes stemming from the legislation, such as the harmonisation of minimum wages, cabotage restrictions, compulsory return to base for drivers and trucks, overnight accommodation arrangements for drivers and the issue of enforcement of the new rules. It then evaluates these changes and tries to outline their effect on the functioning of Czech logistics practice. As already mentioned, all the conclusions presented in this paper are based on information gathered from several experts and hauliers who have been in the industry for many years. The work was carried out in 2022, a year when many of the measures are yet to come into force. The impacts presented in this work may therefore become slightly inaccurate as the years pass.