Question 26800 — road safety

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Mr. François Jolivet alerts the Minister of the Interior to the regulatory obligation relating to the driving of tractors and other agricultural machinery. The so-called “Macron” law of August 6, 2015 simplified the rules in this area. It amended article L. 221-2 of the Highway Code, allowing any person holding a B license to drive all agricultural vehicles and equipment, provided that their speed does not exceed 40 km/h. Decree no. 2016-448, consistent with the requirements of the European regulation relating to the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles, allows the marketing in France of agricultural machinery with a maximum speed exceeding 40 km/h. For the same driver, the B license is required if the equipment is approved up to 40 km/h. For equipment which exceeds this speed, it is the heavy goods vehicle license which is then necessary. These regulatory changes are restrictive, and penalize technicians, salespeople, their employers, and more generally non-agricultural professionals. It is indeed becoming extremely complex and expensive for these players to have staff equipped with a heavy goods vehicle license. In this context, he asks him to present the actions envisaged by the Government in order to correct this inconsistency, born from the implementation of European regulations, and to be part of the logic of simplification of the so-called “Macron” law.

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