One year after the EU passed legislation enabling member states to apply reduced VAT rates on the supply, rental and repair of bicycles, including e-bikes, Port...Portugal inscribes amendment to 2023 state budget reducing VAT rate on bicycle sales with the goal of increasing cycling modal share to 10% by 2030. Customers can no...
In 2021, EU Member States adopted their National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) under the EU’s €800 billion “NextGenerationEU” stimulus package. Thanks t...ECF takes a look at how EU Member States' National Recovery and Resilience Plans are faring in their commitments to cycling. In August 2021, we e...
On 7 December, the Council of the EU reached an agreement on updated rules for VAT rates. Under the new rules, member states will be able to apply reduced VAT r...The Council of the EU has reached an agreement on updated rules for VAT rates that will benefit consumers all over the EU. Member states will now be able to apply reduced...
On 9 April, lawmakers in the French National Assembly voted in favour of introducing a new measure to include both electric and cargo bicycles in a national car...Following intensive advocacy by French ECF member FUB, lawmakers have approved a new measure which would provide owners of old, polluting cars with a grant of up to €2,50...
Reducing VAT (Value Added Tax) on the sales of bicycles and pedelecs from 21% to 6%: That is what the Finance Commission of the Belgian Chamber of Represen...
The first day of Velo-city was also the kick-off of the academic stream of the conference, organised by the Laboratory for Sustainable Mobility at the Federal U...
This year’s VELOFORUM International Conference was held on October 6-8 in Mykolaiv/Ukraine, bringing together more than 100 participants from 24 Ukrainian citie...
Event organised by Transport & Environment The European Commission have earmarked over €100 billion to spend on transport infrastructure in the current EU b...
Success for German ECF member ADFC: For the first time in history, the government has included cycle highways in the new Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan a...
The report, which will be published in full later this year, is an updated version of an earlier study from 2014. It bases its estimates on data collected from...From 8 to 10 June, environment ministers and state secretaries from the pan-European region, including Russia and Central Asia, met in Batumi, Georgia, to discuss the way...
On 27 April, the German federal government decided to launch a huge subsidy package for electric cars worth almost 1 billion euros over the next years. Besides...On 27 April, the German federal government decided to launch a huge subsidy package for electric cars worth almost 1 billion euros over the next years. Besides a buyer’s...
In reaction to the global financial and economic crisis that started in 2008, job creation has become a main priority of EU policy. In this context, ECF has dec...